Staged Timber Spires in Carolingian North-East France and Late Anglo-Saxon England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19341866 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Gem (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 148 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-54 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the British Archaeological Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0068-1288 • E-ISSN: 1747-6704 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/jba.1995.148.1.29 |
| OpenAlex | W2090093584 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The masonry buildings of the Carolingian period have long been recognised as constituting a definitive stage in the development of West European architecture. Some of the great churches of this period also had elaborate timber constructions associated with them, yet the significance of these has never been fully assessed. This paper examines the evidence for a key group of buildings in North-East France and suggests that their timber spires formed a coherent group which may be regarded as an important phenomenon in the architecture of the Carolingian renaissance. These spires have an origin in Late Antique and Merovingian architecture; they also seem to have a role in the development of later medieval spires. In the second part of this paper, the evidence is examined for spires in Late Anglo-Saxon England, and whether these were influenced by the Carolingian examples
Ancient history · Antique · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Middle Ages · Period (music) · The Renaissance · Architecture · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · Historical Architecture and Urbanism · History · Medieval Architecture and Archaeology
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2016 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |