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Architectures of Europe in the Middle Ages, 400s-1400s: General resources

Recommended resources on European architectures and cultures from the 5th to 15th centuries, providing location info for print resources and links for digital resources.

Oxford Art Online

Medieval European topics are also covered in the Oxford Art Online. Among the relevant articles… 

Alberti, Leon Battista” (Davies & Hemsoll) 

Baptistry” (Annabel Jane Wharton) 

Bernard of Clairvaux” (Christopher Holdsworth) 

Brunelleschi, Filippo” (Harold Meek) 

"Carolingian art" (Ulrich Kuder, et al) 

Castle” (Brown & Thompson)  

Cloister” (Hall & Lupia) 

Crusades" (Christopher Tyerman) 

Crypt” (Stephen Heywood)

Gate-house" (Brown & Woodman)

Giotto” (Creighton E. Gilbert) 

"Gothic architecture" (Peter Kidson, et al) 

Manuscripts, Illumination” (Albertine Gaur, et al) 

"Monastery"(Richard Fawcett, et al.) 

"Ottonian art" (Ulrich Kuder, et al) 

Pilgrimage and medieval art” (Sarah Blick) 

Rayonnant style” (Stephen Murray) 

"Romanesque architecture" (Eric Fernie) 

"Suger, Abbot of Saint-Denis" (Peter Kidson) 

"Thomas Aquinas" (Andreas Speer) 

Vault” (Francis Woodman)  

"Villard de Honnecourt" (Carl F. Barnes, Jr.) 

Scholarly journals

Some leading scholarly journals that cover Medieval culture, history and arts are available via Jstor:

Chaucer Review, published by Penn State University Press. Jstor provides articles from 1966.

Gesta, published by The University of Chicago Press. Jstor provides articles from 1963, with a 5-year delay.

Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, published by the Warburg Institute. Jstor provides articles from 1939, with a 3-year delay.

Speculum, published by The University of Chicago Press. Jstor provides articles from 1926, with a 3-year delay.

Studies in Iconography, published by Princeton University. Jstor provides articles from 1993, with a 3-year delay.

Recommended for all architectural research

Early Christian & Byzantine general resources

GENERAL 4th-15th CENTURIES

Bettenson, Henry & Chris Maunder (editors), Documents of the Christian churchOxford University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Bowersock, G.W., Interpreting late antiquity: essays on the postclassical world, Belknap Press, DE3 .I6 2001 

The Early Church Fathers (English full-text)

Krautheimer, Richard, Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, Yale University Press, NA4817 .K4 1986 

Lowden, John, Early Christian & Byzantine Art, Phaidon Press, N7832 .L563 1997 

Stewart, Charles Anthony, “The first vaulted churches in Cyprus,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2010, p.162-189 (PDF via JStor)

See also Kappe Library guide: Architecture of Antiquity: the Byzantine Empire

The early Christian West

Bandmann, Gunter, Early medieval architecture as bearer of meaning, Columbia University Press, NA350 .B3313 2005 (also available via Ebook Central)

Barral i Altet, Xavier, The early Middle Ages: from late antiquity to A.D. 1000, Taschen, NA350.B35 1997 

Bowersock, G.W., et al (editors), Interpreting late antiquity: essays on the postclassical world, Belknap Press, DE3 .I6 2001 

Butler, John F., “Nineteen centuries of Christian missionary architecture,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1962, p.3-17 (PDF via JStor)

Christe, Yves, et al, Art of the Christian world, A.D. 200-1500: a handbook of styles and forms, Rizzoli, N7832 .A72 1982 

Elsner, Jas, Imperial Rome and Christian triumph, Oxford University Press, N5760.E484 1998 

McClendon, Charles B., The origins of medieval architecture: building in Europe, A.D 600-900, Yale University Press, NA5453 .M38 2005 

Murray, Peter, Oxford companion to Christian art and architecture, Oxford University Press, N7830.M87 1996

Ward-Perkins, J. B., “Imperial mausolea and their possible influence on early Christian central-plan buildings,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1966, p.297-299 (PDF via JStor)

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K., “Mediaeval aesthetic: Dionysius the pseudo-Aeropagite, and Ulrich Engelberti of Strassburg” The Art Bulletin, March 1935, p.31-47 (PDF via JStor)

Hamburger, Jeffrey & Anne-Marie Bouche (editors), The mind's eye: art and theological argument in the Middle Ages, Princeton University Press, N7850 .M56 2006 

Maguire, Adam, “Adam and the animals: allegory and the literal sense in early Christian art,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.41, 1987, p.363-373 (PDF via JStor)

Maier, Harry O., “Staging the gaze: early Christian apocalypses and narrative self-representation,” The Harvard Theological Review, April 1997, p.131-154 (PDF via JStor)

Nibley, Hugh, “Christian envy of the temple,” The Jewish Quarterly Review, October 1959, p.97-123 (PDF via JStor)

Gough, Michael, “Alahan Monastery: a masterpiece of early Christian architecture,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, June 1968, p.455-464 (PDF via JStor)

Hearn, M. F., “The rectangular ambulatory in English mediaeval architecture,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1971, p.187-208 (PDF via JStor)

Kleinbauer, W. Eugene, “The Superstructure of the early Christian church of S. Lorenzo in Milan,” Gesta, Vol.15, #1/2, 1976, p.1-9 (PDF via JStor)

Krautheimer, Richard, “Some drawings of early Christian basilicas in Rome: St. Peter's and S. Maria Maggiore,” The Art Bulletin, September 1949, p.211-215 (PDF via JStor)

Lloyd, Joan E. Barclay, “The building history of the medieval church of S. Clemente in Rome,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1986, p.197-223

MacKie, Gillian, Early Christian chapels in the west: decoration, function and patronage, University of Toronto Press, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

MacKie, Gillian, “Symbolism and purpose in an early Christian martyr chapel: the case of San Vittore in Ciel d'Oro, Milan,” Gesta, Vol.34, #2, 1995, p.91-101 (PDF via JStor)

McKitterick, Rosamond, et al, Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Olin, Margaret, "Early Christian synagogues and Jewish art historians; the discovery of the synagogue of Dura-Europos,” Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, Vol.27, 2000, p.7-28 (PDF via JStor)

Peppard, Michael, The world’s oldest church: Bible, art, and ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria, Yale University Press, N7973.6.S92 D87 2016

Piotrowski, Andrzej, “Heresy, hybrid buildings, and a geography of architectural traditions,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Fall 2015, p.7-19 (PDF via JStor)

Stewart, Charles Anthony, “The first vaulted churches in Cyprus,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2010, p.162-189 (PDF via JStor)

Curran, John R., Pagan city and Christian capital: Rome in the fourth century, Oxford University Press, BR205.C87 2000

Leyerle, Blake, “Landscape as cartography in early Christian pilgrimage narratives,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol.64, #1, 1996

Stevens, Susan T., “Excavations of an early Christian pilgrimage complex at Bir Ftouha (Carthage),” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 54, 2000, p.271-274 (PDF via JStor)

Davies, Paul E., “Early Christian attitudes toward Judaism and the Jews,” Journal of Bible and Religion, May 1945, p.72-82 (PDF via JStor)

Mederos, Judith, “Influence of Barbarian art on Romanesque art,” Gesta, Vol.1, 1963, p.4-7 (PDF via JStor)

Wilken, Robert L., “Judaism in Roman and Christian society,” The Journal of Religion, October 1967, p.313-330 (PDF via JStor)

Bingham, D. Jeffrey, The Routledge companion to early Christian thought, Taylor & Francis, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Boer, W. Den, “Hermeneutic Problems in Early Christian Literature,” Vigiliae Christianae, July 1947, p.150-167 (PDF via JStor)

Case, Shirley Jackson, “The art of healing in early Christian times,” The Journal of Religion, May 1923, p.238-255 (PDF via JStor)

Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum

Klinkhammer, Heide "Im Berg der Heiligtumer," Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, January 2004 (On the Grotta di San Michele. PDF available via ResearchGate)

Timmermann, Achim, Memory and redemption: public monuments and the making of late medieval landscape, Brepols, NA9343 .T56 2017

Yasin, Ann Marie, "Funerary monuments and collective identity: from Roman family to Christian community," The Art Bulletin, September 2005, p.433-457 (PDF via JStor)

Breckenridge, James D., “Christian funerary portraits in Mosaic,” Gesta, Vol.13, #2, 1974, p.29-43 (PDF via JStor)

De Capoa, Chiara, Old Testament figures in art, J. Paul Getty Museum, N8020 .D4 2003 

Fricke, Beate, “Tales from stones, travels through time: narrative and vision in the casket from the Vatican,” West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Design History, and Material Culture, Fall/Winter 2014, p.230-250 (PDF via JStor)

Giorgi, Rosa, Angels and demons in art, J. Paul Getty Museum, N8090 .G5513 2005 

Meyvaert, Paul, “The Book of Kells and Iona,” The Art Bulletin, March 1989, p.6-19 (PDF via JStor)

Nees, Lawrence, Early medieval art, Oxford University Press, N5970 .N44 2002

Ramsey, Boniface, “A note on the disappearance of the Good Shepherd from early Christian art,” The Harvard Theological Review, July 1983, p.375-378 (PDF via JStor)

Riegl, Alois, Historical grammar of the visual arts, Zone Books, N5303 .R513 2004 

St. Clair, Archer, “The visit to the tomb: narrative and liturgy on three early Christian pyxides,” Gesta, Vol.18, #1, 1979, p.127-135 (PDF via JStor)

Snyder, James, “The reconstruction of an early Christian cycle of illustrations for the book of Revelation,” Vigiliae Christianae, September 1964, p.146-162 (PDF via JStor)

Soper, Alexander Coburn, “The Italo-Gallic school of early Christian art,” The Art Bulletin, June 1938, p.145-192 (PDF via JStor)

Werner, Martin, “On the origin of the form of the Irish high cross,” Gesta, Vol. 29, #1, 1990, p.98-110 (PDF via JStor)

Wilpert, Joseph, “Early Christian sculpture: its restoration and its modern manufacture,” The Art Bulletin, December 1926, p.89-141 (PDF via JStor)

Zuffi, Stefano, Gospel figures in art, J. Paul Getty Museum, N8030 .Z8413 2003 

LEGACIES ... IN THE ISLAMIC & BUDDHIST WORLD

Hoffman, Eva R., “Christian-Islamic encounters on thirteenth-century Ayyubid metalwork: local culture, authenticity, and memory,” Gesta, Vol.43, #2, 2004, p.129-142 (PDF via JStor)

Rowland, Benjamin, Jr., “Gandhāra and Early Christian Art,” The Art Bulletin, March 1946, p.44-47 (PDF via JStor)

 

LEGACIES ... IN THE CAROLINGIAN, ROMANESQUE & GOTHIC ERAS

Georgopoulou, Maria, “Late Medieval Crete and Venice: an appropriation of Byzantine heritage” The Art Bulletin, September 1995, p.479-496 (PDF via JStor)

Kitzinger, Ernst, “The Byzantine contribution to Western art of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.20, 1966, p.25-47 (PDF via JStor)

Krautheimer, Richard, “The Carolingian revival of early Christian architecture ,” The Art Bulletin, March 1942, p.1-38 (PDF via JStor)

 

LEGACIES ... IN THE RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ERAS

Cutler, Anthony, “A Baroque account of Byzantine architecture: Leone Allacci's’ De templis Graecorum recentioribus” JSAH, May 1966, p.79-89 (PDF via JStor)

Cutler, Anthony, “From loot to scholarship: changing modes in the Italian response to Byzantine artifacts, ca. 1200-1750” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.49, 1995, p.237-267 (PDF via JStor)

Koch, Linda A., “The Early Christian revival at S. Miniato al Monte,” The Art Bulletin, September 1996, p.527-555 (PDF via JStor)

Rice, D. Talbot, “El Greco and Byzantium,” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, January 1937, p.34, 38-39 (PDF via JStor)

Russo, Francesco, “The printed illustration of medieval architecture in pre-Enlightenment Europe,” Architectural History, Vol.54, 2011, p.119-170 (PDF via JStor)

 

LEGACIES ... IN THE MODERN ERA

De Beer, E. S., “Gothic: origin and diffusion of the term; the idea of style in architecture,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol.11, 1948, p.143-162 (PDF via JStor)

Hughes, Richard T., “From primitive church to civil religion: the millennial odyssey of Alexander Campbell,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, March 1976, p.87-103 (PDF via JStor)

McAlindon, T., “The idea of Byzantium in William Morris and W. B. Yeats,” Modern Philology, May 1967, p.307-319 (PDF via JStor)

Riesebrodt, Martin, “Fundamentalism and the resurgence of religion,” Numen, Vol.47, 2000, p.266-287 (PDF via JStor)

Beckwith, John, Early medieval art: Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque, Oxford University Press, N5970 .B4 1974

Braun, Hugh, English mediaeval architecture, Bracken Books, NA963.B76 1968b 

Calkins, Robert G., Medieval architecture in western Europe from a.d. 300 to 1500, Oxford University Press, NA5453.C35 1998 

Christe, Yves, Art of the Christian world, a.d. 200-1500: a handbook of styles and forms, Rizzoli, N7832 .A72 1982 

Coldstream, Nicola, Medieval architecture, Oxford University Press, NA350 .C65 2002 

Conant, Kenneth John, Carolingian and Romanesque architecture, 800 to 1200, Penguin, NA365.C6 1973

Duby, Georges, The age of the cathedrals: art and society, 980-1420, University of Chicago Press, N5970.D8313 1983 

Duby, Georges, History of medieval art, 980-1440, Skira / Rizzoli, N5970 .D798 1986 

Lasko, Peter, Ars sacra 800-1200, Yale University Press, N6245 .L37 1994

Nees, Lawrence, Early medieval art, Oxford University Press, N5970 .N44 2002 

Rudolph, Conrad, A Companion to medieval art: romanesque and gothic in Northern Europe, Blackwell, N5970 .C56 2006

Sekules, Veronica, Medieval art, Oxford University Press, N5970 .S46 2001 

Stoddard, Whitney S., Art and architecture in medieval France, Harper & Row, N6843 .S7 1972 

Specialized resources on related topics, A to Z

Barral i Altet, Xavier, The early middle ages: from late antiquity to a.d. 1000, Taschen, NA350.B35 1997

"Carolingian art," Grove Art OnlineOxford Art Online.

Fernie, E. C., The architecture of Norman England, Oxford University Press, NA963 .F398 2000

Gem, Richard, “Towards an Iconography of Anglo-Saxon Architecture,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol.46, 1983, p.1-18

Krautheimer, Richard, “The Carolingian Revival of Early Christian Architecture,” The Art Bulletin, March 1942, p.1-38 (PDF via JStor)

McClendon, Charles B., The origins of medieval architecture: building in Europe, a.d. 600-900, Yale University Press, NA5453 .M38 2005

Nees, Lawrence, “The Plan of St. Gall and the Theory of the Program of Carolingian Art,” Gesta, Vol.25, #1, 1986, p.1-8 (PDF via JStor)

A (Partial) Visitor's Guide to Carolingian France & Carolingian Germany, http://home.eckerd.edu/~oberhot/visitor-home.htm

Shaffer, Jenny H., “Psalmodi and the architecture of Carolingian Septimania,” Gesta, Vol.44, #1, 2005, p.1-11 (PDF via JStor)

Andersen, Hkon A., “Rotundas with a centralized alter in the 11th and 12th centuries,” Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, Vol.77, #4, 2014, p.443-480 (PDF via Jstor)

Armi, C. Edson, “The context of the aisles of the abbey church at Cluny,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2015, p.63-86 (PDF via JStor)

Armi, C. Edson, “The context of nave elevation at Cluny III,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2010, p.320-351 (PDF via JStor)

Armi, C. Edson, “Orders and continuous orders in Romanesque architecture,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1975, p.173-188 (PDF via JStor)

Armi, C. Edson, “Parts and words in Romanesque architecture,” Gesta, September 2015, p.127-141 (PDF via JStor)

Barral i Altet, Xavier, The Romanesque: towns, cathedrals and monasteries, Taschen, NA390 .B37 1998

Evans, Joan, The Romanesque architecture of the order of Cluny, Cambridge University Press, NA390 .E8 2011

Fernie, Eric,  "Romanesque architecture," Grove Art OnlineOxford Art Online.

Fernie, Eric, Romanesque Architecture: the first style of the European age, Yale University Press, NA390 .F47 2014

Fernie, Eric, “Three Romanesque great churches in Germany, France and England, and the discipline of architectural history,” Architectural History, Vol.54, 2011, p.1-22 (via JStor)

Hoey, Lawrence R., “The design of Romanesque clerestories with wall passages in Normandy and England,” Gesta, Vol.28, #1, 1989, p.78-101 (PDF via JStor)

Hoey, Lawrence R., “Pier form and vertical wall articulation in English Romanesque architecture,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1989, p.258-283 (PDF via JStor)

Hoey, Lawrence R., “A problem in Romanesque aesthetics: the articulation of groin and early rib vaults in the larger churches of England and Normandy,” Gesta, Vol.35, #2, 1996, p.156-176 (PDF via JStor)

Longo, Ruggero, “Idealizing the medieval Mediterranean? Creation, recreation, and representation of Siculo-Norman architecture,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol.62, 2017, p.135-170 (PDF via JStor)

McAleer, J. Philip, “Romanesque England and the Development of the Façade Harmonique,” Gesta, Vol.23, # 2, 1984, p.87-105 (PDF via JStor)

McClendon, Charles B., “The Church of S. Maria di Tremiti and its significance for the history of Romanesque architecture,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1984, p.5-19 (PDF via JStor)

"Ottonian art," Grove Art OnlineOxford Art Online.

Sunderland, Elizabeth Read, “Symbolic numbers and Romanesque church plans,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1959, p.94-103 (PDF via JStor)

Adamski, Jakub, “The pseudo-polygonal rib vaults, St. James’ Church in Torun and the question of illusion in Gothic architecture,” Artibus et Historiae, Vol.33, #65, 2012, p.275-305 (PDF via JStor)

Binski, Paul, Gothic wonder: art, artifice and the decorated style 1290-1350, Yale University Press, N6763 .B56 2014

Jean Bony, “French influences on the origins of English Gothic architecture,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol.12, 1949, p.1-15 (PDF via JStor)

Martin S. Briggs, “Gothic architecture and Persian origins,” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, April 1933, p.183-189 (PDF via JStor)

Bucher, François, “Design in Gothic architecture: a preliminary assessment,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1968, p.49-71 (PDF via JStor)

Bucher, François, “Micro-architecture as the idea of Gothic theory and style,” Gesta, Vol.15, #1/2, 1976, p.71-89 (PDF via JStor)

Charles, Victoria & Klaus H. Carl, Gotik, Parkstone International, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

Fuentes González, Paula & Anke Wunderwald (editors), The art of vaulting : design and construction in the Mediterranean Gothic, Birkhauser, NA480 .A78 2019

Ghyka, Matila, “Gothic canons of architecture,” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, March 1945, p.73-76 (PDF via JStor)

"Gothic architecture," Grove Art OnlineOxford Art Online.

Haskins, Charles Homer, The Renaissance of the twelfth century, Meridian, PA8035 .H3 1966

Hopkins, Owen, Architectural styles: a visual guide, Laurence King, NA204 .H66 2014 (See Chapter 3, “Gothic and Medieval”)

Inglis, Erik, “Gothic architecture and a scholastic: Jean de Jandun's Tractatus de laudibus Parisius (1323),” Gesta, Vol.42, #1, 2003, p.63-85 (PDF via JStor)

Morris, William, Gothic architecture, Electric Book Company, 2000 (via Ebook Central)

Muller, W., “An application of generative aesthetics to German Late Gothic rib vaulting,” Leonardo, Vol.11, #2, Spring 1978, p.107-110 (PDF via JStor)

Pugin, Augustus, The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture, Cambridge University Press, NA440 .P84 2014

Scalbert, Irénée, “The nature of Gothic,” AA Files, #72, 2016, p.73-77, 79-91, 93-95 (PDF via JStor)

Statz, Vincenz & G. Ungewitter, Gothic ornament and design, Dover, NA3550 A1 S73 2006

Toman, Rolf (editor), The art of Gothic: architecture, sculpture, painting, Könemann, N6310 .K8613 2004

Van Liefferinge, Stefaan, “The hemicycle of Notre-Dame of Paris: Gothic design and geometrical knowledge in the twelfth century,” Journal of the Society of Architecture Historians, Vol.49, #4, 2010, p.490-507 (PDF via JStor)

Bruzelius, Caroline A., “Hearing is believing: Clarissan architecture, ca. 1213-1340,” Gesta, Vol.31, #2, 1992, p.83-91 (PDF via JStor)

Greene, J. Patrick, Medieval Monasteries, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Heald, David, Architecture of silence: Cistercian abbeys of France, Harry N. Abrams, TR659 .H42 2000 

Hiscock, Nigel, The wise master builder: Platonic geometry in plans of medieval abbeys and cathedrals, Ashgate, NA4850.H57 2000

Horn, Walter, “On the origins of the Medieval cloister,” Gesta, Vol.12, #1/2, 1973, p.13-52 (PDF via JStor)

Kinder, Terryl N., Cistercian Europe: architecture of contemplation, W.B. Eerdmans Publishing, NA4828 .K56 2001

"Monastery." Grove Art OnlineOxford Art Online.

Olympios, Michalis, “Between St Bernard and St Francis: a reassessment of the excavated church of Beaulieu Abbey, Nicosia,” Architectural History, Vol.55, 2012, p.25-55 (PDF via JStor)

"Aesthetics, Medieval," Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online.

Bandmann, Günter, Early medieval architecture as bearer of meaning, Columbia University Press, NA350 .B3313 2005 (also available via Ebook Central)

Biggam, C. P., “Grund to Hrof: Aspects of the Old English Semantics of Building and Architecture,” Architectural History, Vol.45, 2002, p.49-65 (PDF via JStor)

Binski, Paul, “The heroic age of Gothic and the metaphors of Modernism,” Gesta, March 2013, p.3-19 (PDF via JStor)

Cahn, Walter, “Architecture and Exegesis: Richard of St.-Victor's Ezekiel Commentary and Its Illustrations,” The Art Bulletin, March 1994, p.53-68 (PDF via JStor)

Conant, Kenneth J., “The after-Life of Vitruvius in the Middle Ages,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1968, p.33-38 (PDF via JStor)

Eco, Umberto, Art and beauty in the Middle Ages, Yale University Press, BH131 .E3613 2002

Hamburger, Jeffrey F. The mind's eye: art and theological argument in the Middle Ages, Princeton University Press, N7850 .M56 2006

Hiscock, Nigel, The Wise master builder: Platonic geometry in plans of medieval abbeys and cathedrals, Ashgate, NA4850 .H57 2000 

Krautheimer, Richard, “Introduction to an ‘Iconography of Medieaval Architecture’,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol.5, 1942, p.1-33 (PDF via JStor)

Kumler, Aden & Christopher R. Lakey, “Res et signification: the material sense of things in the Middle Ages,” Gesta, January 2012, p.1-17 (PDF via JStor)

Laporte, Paul M., “Architecture to Painting in the Middle Ages,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1953, p.8-11 (PDF via JStor)

Mâle, Emile, Religious art in France of the thirteenth century, N7949.A1 M3513 2000

Noble, Thomas F. X., Images, iconoclasm, and the Carolingians, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Panofsky, Erwin, Gothic architecture and scholasticism, NA2563 .P3 1951

Panofsky, Erwin & Fritz Saxl, “Classical Mythology in Mediaeval Art,” Metropolitan Museum Studies, March 1933, p.228-280 (PDF via JStor)

Pevsner, Nikolaus, “Terms of Architectural Planning in the Middle Ages,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol.5, 1942, p.232-237 (PDF via JStor)

Sevier, Christopher Scott, Aquinas on beauty, Lexington Books, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Weinryb, Ittai, “Living matter: materiality, maker, and ornament in the Middle Ages,” Gesta, September 2013, p.113-132 (PDF via JStor)

Inglis, Erik, “Remembering and forgetting Suger at Saint-Denis, 1151-1534,” Gesta, September 2015, p.219-243 (PDF via JStor)

Peter Kidson. "Suger, Abbot of Saint-Denis." Grove Art OnlineOxford Art Online.

Murray, Stephen, Plotting gothic, University of Chicago Press, NA440 .M87 2014

Rudolph, Conrad, Artistic change at St-Denis: Abbot Suger's program and the early twelfth-century controversy over art, Princeton University Press, N6851.S29 R8 1990 

Trachtenberg, Marvin, “Suger's miracles, Branner's Bourges: reflections on Gothic architecture as medieval modernism,” Gesta, Vol.39, #2, 2000, p.183-205 (PDF via JStor)

Ackerman, James S., “Villard de Honnecourt's drawings of Reims Cathedral: a study in architectural representation,” Artibus et Historiae, Vol.18, #35, 1997, p.41-49 (PDF via JStor)

Addis, Bill, “Francesco di Giorgio’s contribution to the development of building engineering,” Construction History, Vol.31, #2, 2016, p.39-58 (PDF via JStor)

Bork, Robert, The geometry of creation: architectural drawing and the dynamics of gothic design, Ashgate, NA2706 .E85 B67 2011

Bowie, Theodore, The Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, Indiana University, NA1053.V6 A423

Byng, Gabriel, “The dynamic of design: ‘source’ buildings and contract making in England in the later Middle Ages,” Architectural History, Vol.59, 2016, p.123-148 (PDF via JStor)

Fernie, E. C., “Technical terms and the understanding of English medieval architecture,” Architectural History, Vol.44, 2001, p.13-21 (PDF via JStor)

Haines, Margaret, “Brunelleschi and bureaucracy: the tradition of public patronage at the Florentine Cathedral,” I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Vol.3, 1989, p.89-125 (PDF via JStor)

Harper, Alexander, “Pierre d’Angiocourt and Angevin construction,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2016, p.140-157 (PDF via JStor)

Harvey, John, English Mediaeval Architects: a biographical dictionary down to 1550, Sutton, NA996.H3

Lluis I Ginovart & Jover, “Design and medieval construction: the case of Tortosa Cathedral,” Construction History, Vol.29, #1, 2014, p.1-24 (PDF via JStor)

Locock, Martin, “The development of the building trades in the West Midlands, 1400-1850,” Construction History, Vol.8, 1992, p.3-19 (PDF via JStor)

Maguire, Henry P., “A twelfth century workshop in Northampton,” Gesta, Vol.9, #1, 1970, p.11-25 (PDF via JStor)

Melo & Ribeiro, “Late-Medieval construction site management at the Monastery of Jeronimos in Lisbon,” Construction History, Vol.30, #1, 2015, p.23-37 (PDF via JStor)

Murray, Stephen, “Master Jehancon Garnache (1485-1501) and the construction of the high vaults and flying buttresses of the nave of Troyes Cathedral,” Gesta, Vol.19, #1, 1980, p.37-49 (PDF via JStor)

Priester, Ann, “Bell Towers and building workshops in medieval Rome,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 1993, p.199-220 (PDF via JStor)

Toker, Franklin, “Gothic architecture by remote control: an illustrated building contract of 1340,” The Art Bulletin, March 1985, p.67-95 (PDF via JStor)

Van Tussenbroek, Gabri, “Building contracts in the Low Countries,” Construction History, Vol.32, #1, 2017, p.1-20 (PDF via JStor)

MEDIEVAL CHURCHES

Carlson, Eric G., “A note on four-story elevations,” Gesta, Vol. 25, No.1, 1986, p.61-68 (PDF via JStor)

Carlson, Eric G., “Religious architecture in Normandy, 911-1000,” Gesta, January 1966, p.27-33 (PDF via JStor)

Frankl, Paul, Gothic architecture, Yale University Press, NA5453 .C77 2001

Hearn, M. F., “The rectangular ambulatory in English Mediaeval architecture,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1971, p.187-208 (PDF via JStor)

Hurx, Merlijn, “Bartolomeo Ammannati and the College of San Giovannino in Florence: adapting architecture to Jesuit needs,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2009, p.338-357 (PDF via JStor)

Mackie, Gillian Vallance, Early Christian chapels in the west: decoration, function and patronage, University of Toronto Press, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Ousterhout, Robert, “Architecture as relic and the construction of sanctity: the stones of the Holy Sepulchre,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2003, p.4-23 (PDF via JStor)

Reynolds, Roger E., “The drama of Medieval liturgical processions,” Revue de Musicologie, T. 86e, No. 1er (2000), p.127-142 (PDF via JStor)

Shortell, Ellen M., “Dismembering Saint Quentin: Gothic architecture and the display of relics,” Gesta, Vol.36, No.1, 1997, pp. 32-47 (PDF via JStor)

"Stained glass," Grove Art OnlineOxford Art Online.

Vernon, Eleanor, “Romanesque churches of the pilgrimage roads,” Gesta, Vol.1, 1963, p.12-15 (PDF via JStor)

 

CATHEDRALS

Bork, Robert, “Plan B and the geometry of façade design at Strasbourg Cathedral, 1250-1350,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2005, p.442-473 (PDF via JStor)

Conant, Kenneth J., “The place of Cluny in Romanesque and Gothic architecture,” The Journal of the American Society of Architectural Historians, July 1942, p.3-5 (PDF via JStor)

Draper, Peter, “Interpretations of the rebuilding of Canterbury Cathedral, 1174-1186: archeological and historical evidence,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 1997, p.184-203 (PDF via JStor)

Fitchen, John, The construction of Gothic cathedrals: a study of medieval vault erection, University of Chicago Press, NA440 .F5

Hiscock, Nigel, The wise master builder: Platonic geometry in plans of medieval abbeys and cathedrals, Ashgate, NA4850.H57 2000

Macaulay, David, Cathedral: the story of its construction, Houghton Mifflin, NA4830 .M32

Murray, Stephen, “Notre-Dame of Paris and the anticipation of Gothic,” The Art Bulletin, June 1998, p.229-253 (PDF via JStor)

Parry, Stan, Great Gothic cathedrals of France, ORO Editions, NA5543 .P34 2017

Prak, Niels Luning, “Measurements of Amiens Cathedral,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1966, p.209-212 (PDF via JStor)

Rosenau, Helen, “Cathedral designs of Medieval England,” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, March 1935, p.128-137 (PDF via JStor)

Scott, Robert A., The Gothic enterprise: a guide to understanding the medieval cathedral, University of California Press, NA440. S428 2006

Toker, Franklin K. B., “Florence Cathedral: the design stage,” The Art Bulletin, June 1978, p.214-231 (PDF via JStor)

Christie, Neil & Hajnalka Herold (editors), Fortified settlements in early medieval Europe: defended communities of the 8th-10th centuries, Oxbow Books, 2016 (Via Ebook Central)

Classen, Albrecht, Urban space in the Middle Ages and the early modern age, De Gruyter, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Coulton, G. G., The medieval village, Dover Publications, HD1523 .C6 1989 

Flanigan, Theresa, “The Ponte Vecchio and the art of urban planning in Late Medieval Florence,” Gesta, Vol.47, #1, 2008, p.1-15 (PDF via JStor)

Gardner, Julian, “An Introduction to the Iconography of the Medieval Italian city gate,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.41, 1987, p.199-213 (PDF via JStor)

Kinney, Dale, “Rome in the twelfth century: Urbs fracta and renovation,” Gesta, Vol.45, #2, 2006, p.199-220 (PFD via JStor)

Konvitz, Josef, The Urban millennium: the city-building process from the early Middle Ages to the present, Southern Illinois University Press, HT111 .K58 1985

Lilley, Keith D., City and cosmos: the medieval world in urban form, Reaktion, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Lyman, Thomas W., “The pilgrimage roads revisited,” Gesta, Vol.8, No. 2, 1969, p.30-44 (PDF via JStor)

Maxwell, Robert, “Pilgrimage and the dynamics of urbanism reconsidered: Faubourg architecture in Romanesque Aquitaine,” Architectural History, Vol.53, 2010, p.41-76 (PDF via JStor)

McLean, Alick, “Medieval cities,” in The art of Gothic: architecture, sculpture, painting, Rolf Toman (editor), Könemann, N6310 .K8613 2004

Morris, A. E. J., History of urban form: before the industrial revolutions, Wiley, HT166 .M59 1979

Mumford, Lewis, “Protection and the medieval town,” in The culture of cities, Harcourt, Brace and Co., HT151 .M78

Nebolsine, George, “The pilgrimage route to Rome,” Gesta, Vol.1, 1964, p.3-8 (PDF via JStor)

Schofield, John, Medieval London houses, Yale University Press, NA7332 .S36 1995 

Armi, C. Edson, Design and construction in Romanesque architecture, Cambridge University Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Armi, C. Edson, “First Romanesque wall systems and the context of the ambulatory with radiating chapels,”  Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2006, p.494-519 (PDF via JStor)

Borg, Alan & Robert Mark, “Chartres Cathedral: a reinterpretation of its structure,” The Art Bulletin, September 1973, p.367-372 (PDF via JStor)

Bork, Robert, "Into thin air: France, Germany, and the invention of the openwork spire," The Art Bulletin Vol. 85, 2003, p.25-53 (PDF via JStor)

Bork, Robert, et al, “The openwork flying buttresses of Amiens Cathedral: postmodern Gothic and the limits of structural rationalism,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1997, p.478-493 (PDF via JStor)

Brandon, Raphael, Masterpieces of medieval open timber roofs, Dover Publications, NA2900 .B7 2005

Caskey, Jill, “Steam and sanitas in the domestic realm: baths and bathing in southern Italy in the Middle Ages,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 1999, p.170-195

Cohen, Matthew A., “How much Brunelleschi? A late Medieval proportional system in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2008, p.18-57 (PDF via JStor)

Fraiture, Pascale, et al (editors), Between carpentry and joinery: wood finishing work in European medieval and modern architecture, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, TT325 .B54 2016

Fuentes, Paula & Anke Wunderwald (editors), The art of vaulting: design and construction in the Mediterranean Gothic, Birkhaüser, NA480 .A78 2019

Heyman, Jacques, “Strainer arches,” Construction History, Vol.30, #2, 2015, p.1-14 (PDF via JStor)

Horn, Walter, “On the origins of the medieval bay system,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Summer 1958, p.2-23 (PDF via JStor)

James, John, “Evidence for flying buttresses before 1180,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1992, p.261-287 (PDF via JStor)

Kusaba, Yoshio, “Some observations on the early flying buttress and choir triforium of Canterbury Cathedral,” Gesta, Vol.28, #2, 1989, p.175-189 (PDF via JStor)

Lluis I Ginovart, Josep & Agusti Costa Jover, “Design and medieval construction: the case of Tortosa Cathedral (1345-1441),” Construction History, Vol.29, #1, 2014, p.1-24 (PDF via JStor)

Mark, Robert & Richard Alan Prentke, “Model analysis of Gothic structure,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1968, p.44-48 (PDF via JStor)

Mark, Robert & Ronald S. Jonash, ”Wind loading on Gothic structure,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1970, p.222-230 (PDF via JStor)

Opaéciâc, Zoë, Diamond vaults: innovation and geometry in medieval architecture, Architectural Association, NA2880 .O63 2005

Matracchi, Pietro, The cathedrals of Pisa, Siena and Florence : a thorough inspection of the medieval construction techniques, CRC Press, NA5621.P713 M38 2022

Roberts, Eileen, “Moulding analysis and architectural research: the late Middle Ages,” Architectural History, Vol.20, 1977, p.5-13 (PDF via JStor)

Stephenson, David, Visions of heaven: the dome in European architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, TR659 .S74 2005

Taylor, William & Robert Mark, “The technology of transition: sexpartite to quadripartite vaulting in High Gothic architecture,” The Art Bulletin, December 1982, p.579-587 (PDF via JStor)

Williams, Leslie Pearce, History of science in Western civilization: Antiquity & Middle Ages, University Press of America, Q125.W7913 v. 1

Anderson, Roberta & Dominic Aidan Bellenger, Medieval worlds: a sourcebook, Routledge, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Burns, E. Jane, “Courtly love: who needs it? Recent feminist work in the Medieval French tradition,” Signs, Vol.27, #1 (Autumn, 2001), p.23-57 (PDF via JStor)

Fiero, Gloria K., Three medieval views of women, Yale University Press, PQ1327.D5 T47 1989

Fried, Johannes, The Middle Ages, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, D117 .F8513 2015

Kessler, Harbert L., Rome 1300: on the path of the pilgrim, Yale University Press, N7952.R6 K48 2000

McEvedy, Colin, Penguin atlas of medieval history, Penguin Books, G103.M2

Schulz, Herbert, The Carolingians in Central Europe: their history, arts, and architecture: a cultural history of Central Europe, 750-900, Brill, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Silverstein, Theodore, “Andreas, Plato, and the Arabs: remarks on some recent accounts of courtly love,” Modern Philology, November 1949, p.117-126 (PDF via JStor)

The Tournament,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol.32, #4, 1973-1974, p.76-87 (PDF via JStor)

Harvey, John H., “Henry Daniel: a scientific gardener of the fourteenth century,” Garden History, Vol.15, # 2, Autumn 1987, p.81-93 (PDF via JStor)

Harvey, John H., “Vegetables in the Middle Ages,” Garden History, Vol.12, #2, Autumn 1984, p.89-99 (PDF via JStor)

Harvey, John H., “Westminster Abbey: the infirmarer's garden,” Garden History, Vol.20, #2, Autumn 1992, p.97-115 (PDF via JStor)

Jenkins, Marjorie, “Medicines and spices, with special reference to medieval monastic accounts,” Garden History, Vol.4, #3, Autumn 1976, p.47-49 (PDF via JStor)

Kosmer, Ellen, “Gardens of virtue in the Middle Ages,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol.41, 1978, p.302-307 (PDF via JStor)

Rawcliffe, Carole, “’Delectable sightes and fragrant smelles’: gardens and health in Late Medieval and Early Modern England,” Garden History, Vol.36, #1, Spring 2008, p.3-21 (PDF via JStor)

Anthology of Middle English Literature

Barb, A. A., “Mensa Sacra: The Round Table and the Holy Grail,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, January-June 1956, p.40-67 (PDF via JStor)

Electronic Resources for Medieval Philosophy Studies

English Ballads

Gilson, Etienne, The Spirit of mediaeval philosophy, University of Notre Dame Press, B721 .G5714 1991

Icelandic Saga Database

Medieval English manuscripts: form, aesthetics, and the literary text,” The Chaucer Review (Special issue via JStor)

Medieval Literature (via Ancient History Encyclopedia)

Medieval Philosophy

Wood, Juliette, “The Holy Grail: From Romance Motif to Modern Genre,” Folklore, October 2000, p.169-190 (PDF via JStor)

The World of Dante

Barnet, Peter, The Cloisters: medieval art and architecture, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, N661 .C6 A85 2005 

Benton, Janetta Rebold, Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings, Abeville Press, NB170.B46 1997  

Davis-Weyer, Caecilia, Early medieval art, 300-1150: sources and documents, University of Toronto Press, N5975 .D3 1986  

Charles, Victoria & Klaus H. Carl, Gothic art, Parkstone International, 2012 (via Ebook Central) 

Charles, Victoria & Klaus H. Carl, L’art roman, Parkstone International, 2012 (via Ebook Central) 

Dale, Thomas, “Romanesque sculpted portraits: convention, vision, and real presence,” Gesta, Vol.46, #2, 2007, p.101-119 (PDF via JStor) 

Deshman, Robert, “Anglo-Saxon Art after Alfred,” The Art Bulletin, June 1974, p.176-200 (PDF via JStor) 

Dodwell, C. R., The Pictorial arts of the West, 800-1200, Yale University Press, N5970 .D64 1993

Hutterer, Maile Sophia, “Lofty sculpture: flying buttress decoration and ecclesiastical authority,” Gesta, September 2015, p.195-218 (PDF via JStor) 

Kenaan-Kedar, Nurith, “The margins of society in marginal Romanesque sculpture,” Gesta, Vol.31, #1, 1992, p.15-24 (PDF via JStor) 

Kinch, Ashby, Imago mortis: mediating images of death in Late Medieval culture, Brill, 2013 (via Ebook Central) 

Lakey, Christopher R., Sculptural seeing: relief, optics, and the rise of perspective in medieval Italy, Yale University Press, NB1280 .L35 2018 

Mederos, Judith E., “Influence of Barbarian art on Romanesque art,” Gesta, Vol.1, 1963, p.4-7 (PDF via JStor)

Nickson, Tom, “Reframing the Bible: Genesis and Exodus on Toledo Cathedral’s fourteenth-century choir screen,” Gesta, Vol.50, #1, p.71-89 (PDF via JStor) 

Pajares-Ayuela, Paloma, Cosmatesque ornament: flat polychrome geometric patterns in architecture, Norton, NA3542 .P35 2001  

Petzold, Andreas, Romanesque art, Abrams, N6280 .P48 1995

Schapiro, Meyer, “From Mozarabic to Romanesque in Silos,” The Art Bulletin, December 1939, p.313-374 (PDF via JStor) 

Schapiro, Meyer, Romanesque architectural sculpture, University of Chicago Press, NB175 .S278 2006 

Schapiro, Meyer, “The Romanesque Sculpture of Moissac,” The Art Bulletin, September 1931, p.249-351 & Part 2 (PDFs via JStor)

Sekules, Veronica, Medieval art, Oxford University Press, N5970 .S46 2001 

Timmermann, Achim, Memory and redemption: public monuments and the making of late medieval landscape, Brepols, NA9343 .T56 2017 

The Crusades,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol.32, #4, 1973, p.62-67 (PDF via JStor) 

Eisenberg, Michael & Rabei Khamisy (editors), The art of siege warfare and military architecture from the classical world to the Middle Ages, Oxbow Books, 2021 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Grancsay, Stephen V., “Knights in armor,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, February 1948, p.178-188 (PDF via JStor) 

Kaufmann, J. E. & H. W. Kaufmann, The medieval fortress: castles, forts and walled cities of the Middle Ages, Greenhill Books, UG428 .K39 2001 

Kennedy, Hugh, Crusader castles, Cambridge University Press, NA1465 .K44 1994  

"Military architecture and fortification." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 

Wallach, Luitpold, “Alcuin on virtues and vices: a manual for a Carolingian soldier,” The Harvard Theological Review, July 1955. p.175-195 (PDF via JStor) 

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, Military architecture of the Middle Ages, University Press of the Pacific, UG460 .V5613 2003  

LEGACIES … IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD

Briggs, Martin S., “The architecture of Saladin and the influence of the Crusades (A. D. 1171-1250),” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, January 1921, p.10-20 (PDF via JStor)

Draper, Peter, “Islam and the West: the early use of the pointed arch revisited,” Architectural History, Vol.48, 2005, p.1-20 (PDF via JStor)

Goetz, H., “An irruption of Gothic style forms into Indo-Islamic architecture,” Artibus Asiae, Vol.22, #1/2, 1959, p.53-58(PDF via JStor)

Howard, Deborah, “Venice and Islam in the Middle Ages: some observations on the question of architectural influence,” Architectural History, Vol.34, 1991, p.59-74 (PDF via JStor)

 

LEGACIES … IN THE RENAISSANCE

Campbell, Ian, “A Romanesque revival and the early Renaissance in Scotland, c.1380-1513,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1995, p.302-325 (PDF via JStor)

Girouard, Mark, “Elizabethan architecture and the Gothic tradition,” Architectural History, Vol.6, 1963, p.23-39 (PDF via JStor)

Klotz, Heinrich, Filippo Brunelleschi: the early works and the medieval tradition, Rizzoli, NA1123.B8 K5513 1990

Russo, Francesco, “The printed illustration of Medieval architecture in pre-Enlightenment Europe,” Architectural History, Vol.54, 2011, p.119-170 (PDF via JStor)

 

LEGACIES … IN THE ERA OF NEOCLASSICISM, ROCOCO, THE PICTURESQUE

Davis, Garold N. “Medievalism in the Romantic: some early contributors,” The Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, March 1974, p.34-39 (PDF via JStor)

Kenney, Alice P. & Leslie J. Workman, “Ruins, romance, and reality: Medievalism in Anglo-American imagination and taste, 1750-1840,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.10, 1975, p.131-163 (PDF via JStor)

Krinsky, Carol H. “Romanesque architecture and some eighteenth century critics," Gesta, Vol.1, 1964, p.20-21 (PDF via JStor)

Laugier, Marc-Antoine, An essay on architecture, Hennessey + Ingalls, NA2515.L2913 (see Ch. IV “On the style in which to build churches”)

Stewart, David, “Political ruins: Gothic sham ruins and the '45,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1996, p.400-411 (PDF via JStor)

Stock, Brian, “The Middle Ages as subject and object: romantic attitudes and academic medievalism,” New Literary History, Vol.5, #3, 1974, p.527-547 (PDF via JStor)

Wick, Gabriel, “Hubert Robert (1733-1808) and the renovation of the ‘Tour de Guy’ at the château of La Roche-Guyon,” Garden History, Vol.41, #2, 2013, p.224-243 (Medieval tower integrated into picturesque paintings) (PDF via JStor)

 

LEGACIES … GOTHIC REVIVALS

Andrews, Wayne, American Gothic, Vintage Books, NA710.A53 1975

Howard, Bloch, R., “Viollet-le-Duc’s “Republic of Architectural Art”: the Greco-Gothic revival and the building of modern France,” Perspecta, Vol.44, 2011, p.12-21 (PDF via JStor)

Clark, Kenneth, The Gothic Revival, Penguin, NA610.C5 1962

Coffman, Peter, Newfoundland Gothic, Editions MultiMondes, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Lang, S. “The Principles of the Gothic Revival in England,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1966, p.240-267 (PDF via JStor)

Langley, Batty, Gothick Architecture, Dover Publications, NA2840.L195 2003

Lepine, Ayla, “The persistence of Medievalism: Kenneth Clark and the Gothic Revival,” Architectural History, Vol.57, 2014, p.323-356 (PDF via JStor)

Lindfield, Peter, “Serious gothic and ‘doing the ancient buildings’,” Architectural History, Vol.57, 2014, p.141-173 (PFD via JStor)

Mallgrave, Harry Francis, “Gothic Revival in Britain, Germany, & France,” in Architectural Theory, NA2500.A7115 2006 v. 1

Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, Contrast, or, A parallel between the noble edifices of the Middle Ages, and corresponding buildings of the present day, Cambridge University Press, NA440 .P85 1841

 

LEGACIES … IN THE 19TH CENTURY

Adams, Henry, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Princeton University Press, DC801.M7515 A3x 1981 

Brown, Deidre, “The Maori response to Gothic architecture,” Architectural History, Vol.43, 2000, p.253-270 (PDF via JStor)

Eisenman, Stephen F., “Communism in furs: a dream of prehistory in William Morris's John Ball,” The Art Bulletin, March 2005, p.92-110 (PDF via JStor)

Evans, Timothy H., “Folklore as utopia: English medievalists and the ideology of Revivalism,” Western Folklore, October 1988, p.245-268 (PDF via JStor)

Glaser, Stephanie A. (editor), The idea of the Gothic cathedral: interdisciplinary perspectives on the meanings of the medieval edifice in the modern period, Brepols, NA440 .I34 2018

Meeks, Carroll L. V., “Romanesque before Richardson in the United States,” The Art Bulletin, March 1953, p.17-33 (PDF via JStor)

Morowitz, Laura, “Anti-Semitism, medievalism and the art of the Fin-de-Siecle,” Oxford Art Journal, Vol.20, #1, 1997, p.35-49 (PDF via JStor)

Murphy, Kevin D., Memory and modernity: Viollet-le-Duc at Vézelay, Pennsylvania State University Press, NA1053.V7 M87 2000

O'Gorman, James F., H.H. Richardson: architectural forms for an American society, University of Chicago Press, NA737.R5 O36 1987

Ruskin, John, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Dover Publications, NA2550.R75 1989

Weingarden, Lauren S. “Aesthetics politicized: William Morris to the Bauhaus,” Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), Vol.38, #3, 1985, p.8-13 (PDF via JStor)

 

LEGACIES … IN THE ERA OF MODERNISM

Beddall, Thomas G., “Gaudí and the Catalan Gothic,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1975, p.48-59 (PDF via JStor)

Binski, Paul, “The heroic age of Gothic and the metaphors of Modernism,” Gesta, March 2013, p.3-19 (PDF via JStor)

Camille, Michael, “How New York stole the idea of Romanesque art': Medieval, Modern and Postmodern in Meyer Schapiro,” Oxford Art Journal, Vol.17, #1, 1994, p.65-75 (PDF via JStor)

Classen, Albrecht, “The never-ending story of the (German) Middle Ages: philology, hermeneutics, medievalism, and mysticism,” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol.55, #2, 2001, p.67-79 (PDF via JStor)

Dynes, Wayne R., “Medievalism and Le Corbusier,” Gesta, Vol.45, #2, 2006, p.89-94 (PDF via JStor)

Glaser, Stephanie A. (editor), The idea of the Gothic cathedral: interdisciplinary perspectives on the meanings of the medieval edifice in the modern period, Brepols, NA440 .I34 2018

Powell, Amy, Depositions: scenes from the late medieval church and the modern museum, Zone Books, N8053.2 .P69 2012

Pugin, Augustus, Contrasts, or, a parallel between the noble edifices of the Middle Ages and corresponding buildings of the present day, Cambridge University Press, NA440 .P85 1841

Tallon, Andrew, “An architecture of perfection,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2013, p.530-554 (PDF via JStor)

Yri, Kirsten, “Noah Greenberg and the New York Pro Musica: medievalism and the cultural front,” American Music, Vol.24, #4, 2006, p.421-444 (PDF via JStor)

Ziolkowski, Jan M., “Point taken: gothic modernism and the modern middle ages,” in The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity, Open Book Publishers, 2018, p.239-300 (PDF via JStor)

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