HART
104. Case Studies in Ancient
and Medieval Architecture
Part
II. The Medieval World
Professor
Linda Neagley
lneagley@rice.edu, 111 Herring Hall, x 3316
Office
Hours. M 1-2 or by appointment
The
structure and responsibilities for the second half of the course are similar to
the first half of the course.
There will be no comprehensive examination. Material for the second half of the course will be covered
in an in-class exam given on the last day of class. Students will also be
responsible for keeping a journal, a short essay paper, and participation in
the weekly discussion and debate.
Week
8. Old Saint Peter's, Rome
11
October No
Class
13 October Constantine,
Conversion and the Creation of Monumental Christian Architecture
Primary
Text Reading (e reserves):
Eusebius,The Life of
the Blessed Emperor Constantine
The Book of the Popes, Constantine's
Gifts to the Lateran and St. Peter's
15 October Discussion
Topic: Saints, Relics, and the
Tomb of St. Peter
Discussion Reading
(e reserves)
John
Crook, "Aspects of Relic Cults", from The Architectural Setting
of the Cult of Saints
in the Early Christian West, c. 300-1200, Oxford, 2000.
Week
9. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople
18
and 20 October Justinian,
the Dome of Heaven and the Unification of the Empire
Primary
Text Reading (e reserves)
Procopius,
De aedif. I, I, 23 ff
Agathias, Hist. V, 9, 2-5
Theophanes,
A.M. 6051, pp. 232-33
Evagrius, Hist.
Eccles. IV 31.
Paulus Silentiarius,
Descri. S. Sophiae
Narratio
de S. Sophia, 7ff
22
October Discussion
Topic: Architecture, Liturgy, and
Ceremony
Team
1
Discussion Reading
(e reserves)
Rowland Mainstone,
"Furnishing and use: architecture and liturgy" from Hagia
Sophia. Architecture,
Structure, and Liturgy of Justinian's Great Church
London, 1988.
Week
10. The Palatine Complex at Aachen
25
and 27 October Charlemagne
and the Carolingian Renaissance
Primary
Text Reading (e reserves)
Einhart, "The
Palace Church at Aachen", from The Life of Charlemagne
Ermoldus Nigellus, The
Church and Palace at Ingelheim
29 October Discussion
Topic: Models, Copies, and the
Transference of Meaning in Medieval Architecture
Team
2
Discussion
Reading (e reserves)
Richard
Krautheimer, "Introduction to an 'Iconography of Mediaeval
Architecture", Journal
of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute, 1949, 1-33
Paul Crossley,
"Medieval architecture and meaning: the limits of iconography",
Burlington Magazine, vol. 130, 1988,
116-121.
W.
Eugene Kleinbauer, "Charlemagne's Palace Chapel at Aachen and Its
Copies", Gesta, 4, 1965, 2-11.
B. Brenk, "Spolia
from Constantine to Charlemagne: Aesthetics versus
Ideology",
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 41, 1987, 103-109.
Week
11. The Saint-Gall Plan
1 and 3 November Architecture
and Monastic Life
Primary
Text Reading (e reserve)
The
Rule of St. Benedict
5
November Discussion
Topic: What happens in a
cloister? Memory and Meditation
Team
3
Discussion
Reading (e reserve)
Paul
Meyvaert, "The Medieval Monastic Claustrum", Gesta, 1973, 53-59
Mary
Carruthers, "The Place of the Tabernacle", from The Craft of
Thought,
Meditation, Rhetoric,
and the Making of Images, 400-1200. Cambridge, 1998
Leah Rutchick, "Visual Memory and
Historiated Sculpture in the Moissac Cloister", Der mittelalterliche
Kreuzgang,
ed. Peter Klein, Regersburg, 2004, 190-211
Week
12. Saint-Denis, France
8
and 10 November Gothic
Architecture and the Burial of French Kings
Primary Text
Readings: (e reserve)
Abbot
Suger, De Administratione,
Durandus,
The Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments
12
November Discussion
Topic: Retrospection and
Innovation.
Historicism and
Modernity in Gothic Architecture
Team
4
Discussion
Reading (e reserves)
Eric
Fernie, "Suger's 'Completion' of Saint Denis", Artistic
Integration In
Gothic
Buildings, ed.,
V. Raguin, K. Brusch, and P. Draper, Toronto, 1995,
84-91
William
Clark, ""The Recollection of the Past is the Promise of the Future.'
Continuity and Contextuality:
Saint-Denis, Merovingians, Capetions, and
Paris", Artistic
Integration in Gothic Buildings, ed., V. Raguin, K. Brusch, and
P. Draper, Toronto,
1995, 92-113
JOURNALS DUE
Week
13. Chartres Cathedral, France
15
and 17 November Building
the Heavenly City
Villard
de Honnecourt
19
November Discussion
and/or Debate
Reading
TBA
Team
5
SHORT
ESSAY DUE
Week
14. The Parish Church of Saint-Maclou,
Rouen
22
November Pierre
Robin and Late Gothic Design
Primary
Text Reading:
TBA
24
and 26 November No Class
Week
15. Saint-Maclou, con't.
29
November Social
Anxiety and the Merchant Class
1
December The
end of Gothic architecture?
Team
6
Discussion
Reading (e reserve)
H.
Focillon, "The Spirit of Fantasy: Gothic Baroque", from The Art
of the West, part
two. Gothic, Paris, 1963.
L. Neagley, "The Craftsmen. Flamboyant Architecture as an
Expression of Cultural Values", from Disciplined Exuberance. The Parish
Church of Saint-Maclou and Late Gothic Architecture in Rouen, University Park, 1999
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