About the Book
Professor Conant's detailed studies of Santiago de Compostela and of the abbey church at Cluny fit him for this account of building in the period of the round arch which preceeded Gothic. In this volume he shows how, at the instigation of the monasteries during the little renaissance of Charlemagne, Roman methods of construction were revived and fused with local traditions to produce a distinctive Carolingian manner; and how such monuments as the Palatine Chapel at Aachen already contained hints of the nobler and more mature Romanesque style which was to become international. professor Conant extends his survey to cover the regions of medieval France, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Land, Italy, Germany, Northern Europe, and Britain.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 The pre-Romanesque and proto-Romanesque styles: the preparation for medieval architecture - the insitutional background, primitive and local architectural trends, the persistence of Roman architectural ideas and practice, the transition from Roman to early medieval archiecture; the Carolingian Romanesque - northern archiecture in the reign of Charlemagne, 771-814, Church architecture in the northern part of the empire under the later Carolingians; pre-Romanesque architecture in the north, outside the empire - Ireland, 9th and 10th century architecture in Saxon England, Scandinavia; proto-Romanesque architecture in southern Europe - the Asturian style, the Mozarabic style in northern Spain, the Lombard kingdom, the Byzantine exarchate. Part 2 The earlier Romanesque styles: the "First Romanesque" - Lombardy, Dalmatia, Catalonia and Andorra, the kingdom of Arles, Germany; Romanesque architecture in Germany - under the Saxon and Franconian emperors (936-1125), the Ottonians; the Ottonian Romanesque, the Salian or Franconian emperors; France - 900-1050 - the Ambulatory, Burgundian developments, the spacious wooden-roofed basilicas. Part 3 The mature Romanesque as inter-regional and international archiecture: the great Churches of the pilgrimage roads - the preparation - general considerations, St Martin at Tours, Saint-Martial at Limoges, Sainte-Foi at Conques, Saint-Sernin at Toulouse and pilgrimage sculpture, Santiago de Compostela, goal of the pilgrimage; reflex from the pilgrimage; the role of Cluny in the history of Romanesque archiecture - the early Abbots; the "Ecole Clunisienne", Abbot Hugh of Semur, Abbot Pons, or Pontius, de Melgueil, Abbot Peter the Venerable; the Cistercians and their architecture. Part 4 The mature Romanesque of middle and southern France: general considerations in regard to the regional schools; the kingdom of Arles and Burgundy - Ducal Burgundy, Provence; Aquitania, with bordering areas on the Loire and the Mediterranean - the west of France; the school of Auvergne; the school of Languedoc. Part 5 The mature Romanesque architecture of Spain, Portugal and the Holy Land: styles dependent on the Moors and on Lombardy - Mudejar Romanesque architecture in Brick, the mature Catalan Romanesque style; styles dependent on France - preliminary considerations, Aragon and Navarre, Leon, Castile and Galicia, Portugal, the Templars and the Hospitallers, the Holy Land, exchange of influences - the problem of Armenia. Part 5 Mature Romanesque architecture in the lands associated within the Holy Roman Empire: the two Sicilies- Apulia, the Basilicata, Sicily, Campania and neighbouring regions; central Italy - Rome and the Papal state, Tuscany; northern Italy - Venice, Lombardy; Germany, Netherlands and Flanders - south Germany, Saxony, lower Rhine-Main district, the Netherlands. Part 7 Mature Romanesque architecture in Scandinavia, Britian and northern France. (part contents)
