Binski, Paul creator author. text bibliography Print books. cau 2024 2024 monographic eng

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253 pages color illustrations ; 21 cm "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 approach, Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages explores the relationship between medieval buildings and the complexity of experience they engendered. Paul Binski examines long-standing misconceptions about the way viewers responded to medieval architecture across Western Europe and in Byzantine and Arabic culture between Late Antiquity and the end of the medieval period. He emphasizes the importance of the experience itself within these built environments, essentially places of action, space, and structure but also, crucially, of sound and emotion"-- Introduction -- Admiratio -- Tristitia-Laetitia -- Terror -- Sublimia -- Claritas, jucunditas, nobilitas -- Conclusion : spectacle, genre, and imitation. Paul Binski ; in association with the Spencer Museum of Art and Kress Foundation Department of Art History, the University of Kansas. Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-243) and index. Architecture and society History Architecture, Medieval NA2543.S6 B53 2024 Binski, Paul. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025] (DLC) 2024004757 9780520402997 2024004756 CU-S/DLC 240201 20251209091258.0 23580125 eng