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Medieval Irish Architecture and the Concept of Romanesque: Building Traditions in Eleventh- And Twelfth-Century Europe

Medieval Irish Architecture and the Concept of Romanesque: Building Traditions in Eleventh- And Twelfth-Century Europe

O'Keeffe, Tadhg

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Medieval & Renaissance HistoryArchaeologyArchitecture History

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ISBN10: 1032578912
ISBN13: 9781032578910
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 28 2024
Pages: 258
Language: English

This book presents a fresh perspective on eleventh- and twelfth-century Irish architecture, and a critical assessment of the value of describing it, and indeed contemporary European architecture in general, as Romanesque.

Medieval Irish Architecture and the Concept of Romanesque is a new and original study of medieval architectural culture in Ireland. The book's central premise is that the concept of a Romanesque style in eleventh- and twelfth-century architecture across Western Europe, including Ireland, is problematic, and that the analysis of building traditions of that period is not well served by the assumption that there was a common style. Detailed discussion of important buildings in Ireland, a place marginalised within the Romanesque model, reveals the Irish evidence to be intrinsically interesting to students of medieval European architecture, for it is evidence which illuminates how architectural traditions of the Middle Ages were shaped by balancing native and imported needs and aesthetics, often without reference to Romanitas.

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