Architecture and affect in the Middle Ages /

How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a large emphasis on the emotional content of Western medieval figurative art, the emotion of architecture has largely gone undiscussed. In a radical new app...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Binski, Paul (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2024].
Series:University of Kansas Franklin D. Murphy lecture series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Admiratio
  • Tristitia-Laetitia
  • Terror
  • Sublimia
  • Claritas, jucunditas, nobilitas
  • Conclusion : spectacle, genre, and imitation.