Die architektur Gotik / Gothic architecture: catalogue of the world's largest collection of gothic architectural drawings in the Academy of Fine Arts

This chapter discusses the Gothic from 1797 to 1820. The Gothic reached its apogee in the late 1790s, when it secured a third share of the novel market, after which it withered. Fr...

In Chapter 1, the Reformation is presented as the paradigmatic site of Gothic escape: the evil monastery can be traced back to Wycliffe’s ‘Cain’s castles’ and the fictional abbey r...

In 2020, the COVID pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of billions across the world. As the invisible killer marched across continents, causing unprecedented disruption wo...

Der Blick auf wissenschaftliche Disziplinen und ihre Geschichte ändert sich, sobald Akte der Überlieferung als machtförmige soziale Praktiken betrachtet werden. Als solche ziehen s...

In seiner vielfältigen Reflexion über die nationale Identität und ihre kulturellen und historischen Wurzeln hat der italienische Regisseur Ettore Scola immer wieder große Geschicht...

Whatever ‘ugliness’ is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics - alternately vilified and appropriated, either to shock or to invert conventions of architect...

The centuries between 1100 and 1500 were the crucible in which English language and literature, after the blow of the Norman Conquest, were reformed with results that affected all ...

Palaces like the Aljafería and the Alhambra rank among the highest achievements of the Islamic world. In recent years archaeological work at Córdoba, Kairouan and many other sites ...