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  title info:
    title: Islamesque
    sub title: the forgotten craftsmen who built Europe's medieval monuments
  name:
    name part: Darke, Diana
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 444 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
  abstract: Who really built Europe's finest Romanesque monuments? Clergymen presiding over holy sites are credited throughout history, while highly skilled creators remain anonymous. But the buildings speak for themselves. This groundbreaking book explores the evidence embedded in medieval monasteries, churches and castles, from Mont Saint-Michel and the Leaning Tower of Pisa to Durham Cathedral and the Basilica of Santiago de Compostela. Tracing the origins of key design innovations from this pre-Gothic period, acknowledged as the essential foundation of all future European construction styles, Diana Darke sheds startling new light on the masons, carpenters and sculptors behind these masterpieces. At a time when Christendom lacked such expertise, Muslim craftsmen had advanced understanding of geometry and complex ornamentation. They dominated high-end construction in Islamic Spain, Sicily and North Africa, spreading knowledge and techniques across western Europe. Challenging Eurocentric assumptions, Darke uncovers the profound influence of the Islamic world in "Christian" Europe, and argues that "Romanesque" architecture, a nineteenth-century art historians" fiction, should be recognized for what it truly is, Islamesque.
  note: Diana Darke.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Architecture, Medieval
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Islamic influences
  subject:
    topic: Muslim artisans
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Stonemasons
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Carpenters
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  classification: NA350 .D37 2024
  classification: 723
  identifier: 1805260979
  identifier: 9781805260974
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240225
    record change date: 20250122154607.5
    record identifier: in00005612656