Monuments & Memory: Christian Cult Buildings and Constructions of the Past
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Architectural Crossroads, vol. 13
- Pages: approx. 160 p.
- Size:216 x 280 mm
- Illustrations:34 b/w, 32 col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2026
- € 95,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-2-503-61923-1
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- Forthcoming (Feb/26)
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This selected essays volume includes all of Wolfgang Schenkluhn's important works on the history of medieval church architecture.
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BIO
Wolfgang Schenkluhn, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, researches and publishes mainly on the architecture and art of the Middle Ages. He initiated the inventory projects for the cathedrals in Magdeburg and Naumburg and headed the research group for the Magdeburg cathedral square and cathedral excavations. Schenkluhn was chairman of the Monument Council in Saxony-Anhalt for twenty years and Director of the European Romanesque Center Research Institute in Merseburg. Today, Schenkluhn lives and works in Halle and Berlin.
Summary
This selected essays volume includes all of Wolfgang Schenkluhn's important works on the history of medieval church architecture. They reflect and evaluate the fundamentals of building analysis and focus on the relationship between innovation and reception in the choice of architectural forms. Some also discuss the time-related handling of historical objects, which raises the question of how to arrive at an adequate understanding of historical art and architecture. Great attention is paid to the theory of quotation, which has been in use since the 1970s. In the works, it is repeatedly placed in relation to the older theories of meaning and examined more closely. The author is one of the few architectural historians to have demonstrated and further developed the scientific value and the various possible applications of the quotation theory using concrete examples from medieval architecture. Thus the essays form a whole, in that the subjects dealt with combine factual, methodological and scientific-historical aspects.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Lex Bosman
Introduction
Thoughts on the Concept of Medieval Architecture
I. Copy, Quote, Meaning
Iconography and Iconology of Medieval Architecture
On the Architectural Copy in the Middle Ages
On the Concept of Architectural Quotation
Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism
Monumental Representation of Royalty
Canonization and Church Building
II. Order Architecture
In Search of Adequacy
Unity and Diversity in Religious Architecture
The Three-Chapel Hall of the Mendicants
III. History of Science
The Invention of the Hall Church in the History of Art
Epochal Thresholds: The Western Portals of Chartres and Saint-Denis
The Naumburg Donor Figure in Photography
IV. Appendix
Publication History
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