South French Gothic

The main purpose of the monograph is to reveal the deep and complex interrelation of the religious and mystical paradigm of the original "Occitan civilization" of the South of France and the Catholic Church, which won the bloody Albigensian wars, with the artistic practice of the builders of the cult Gothic structures of the South of France. In addition to the literary sources previously used in scientific circulation, materials of little-known foreign publications, archival documents (courtesy of the Augustin Museum, the University of Toulouse and the Catholic Institute of Toulouse, the Center for Qatari Studies in Carcassonne), as well as materials of the author's direct research of natural objects of the studied region were involved. The analysis of all these data made it possible to see and evaluate the cultural and historical background in a new way, which became fertile ground for the emergence and spread of Gothic art, the subsequent formation and spread of the peculiar Gothic architecture of the South of France. For the first time, a number of new hypotheses are introduced into scientific circulation, allowing a more objective look at the features of the cult Gothic of Southern France. Based on the above, for the first time in Russian medieval studies, it became possible to propose a reasonable, in the author's opinion, classification of cult Gothic structures in the South of France, which naturally correlates with the data of scientific publications. For a wide range of readers interested in Gothic art. It can be useful for students, postgraduates and teachers of art history universities and faculties.