Magnificentia in parvis : microarchitecture et esthétique médiévale
- Submitting institution
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 12828
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- Microarchitectures médiévales : l'échelle à l'épreuve de la matière
- Publisher
- Picard
- ISBN
- 9782708410428
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
- This paper is a theoretical critique of Gothic 'micro-architecture' which places its rise to prominence in art-historical discussion in the context of 1960s counter-culturalism. This origin brought with it the idea that tiny architecture is a liberating 'transcendental' riposte to the grand stances of large-scale Gothic. Adopting a critical stance towards the transcendentalist claims of writers such as Bucher, the paper goes on to argue that the issue of scale in medieval architecture as a whole is entirely relative and governed by rational aesthetic calculation, micr0- and macro-scaling being seen as interdependent threads of inventive processes also described by rhetoric.