TY  - BOOK
AU  - Binski,Paul
TI  - Architecture and affect in the Middle Ages
T2  - The Franklin D. Murphy Lecture Series
SN  - 9780520402997
AV  - NA2543.S6 B53 2024
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - History
KW  - Architecture, Medieval
KW  - Print books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-243) and index; Introduction -- Admiratio -- Tristitia-Laetitia -- Terror -- Sublimia -- Claritas, jucunditas, nobilitas -- Conclusion : spectacle, genre, and imitation
N2  - "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"--
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