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The Regional and Transregional in Romanesque Europe considers the historiography and usefulness of regional categories, and in so doing explores the strength, durability, mutability and geographical scope of regional and transregional phenomena in the Romanesque period.
List of contents
1. The epistemological, political, and practical issues affecting regional categories in French Romanesque architecture 2. Hans Kubach’s treatment of regions in the study of Romanesque architecture 3. Did Zodiaque’s regional portrayal create a false impression as to the nature of Romanesque 4. Romanesque sculpture in Aquitaine: a history of the marginalisation of a widely imitated regional sculptural style 5. The baldachin-ciborium: the shifting meanings of a restricted liturgical furnishing in Romanesque art 6. Hildesheim as a nexus of metalwork production, c. 1130-1250 7. 'Mosan' metalwork and its diffusion in the Rhineland, France, and England 8. Winchester's Holy Sepulchre Chapel and Byzantium: iconographic transregionalism? 9. Transregional dynamics, monastic networks: Santa Fede in Cavagnolo, Conques, and the geography of Romanesque art10. Tiron on the edge: cultural geography, regionalism and liminality 11. Four Romanesque Cistercian abbeys in Lesser Poland: the context of their foundation 12. The Cathedral of Catania and the creation of the Norman County of Sicily: transregional and transalpine models in the architecture of the late 11th century 13. ʻSchool’ or ʻmasons’ workshop’?: reflections on the so-called Wormser Bauschule and on the definition of regional style 14. Towards an anatomy of a regional workshop: the Herefordshire School revisited 15. Crossing the Pyrenees: migration, urbanization, and transregional collaboration in Romanesque Aragon 16. Transregionalism and particularity in Romanesque woodcarving in 12th-century Catalonia 17. Romanesque woodcarvers and plasterers in the Abruzzi: the Mediterranean connection 18. A country without regions?: the case of Hungary 19. Reassessing the problem of Scandinavian Romanesque 20. The creation of Castilian identity under Alfonso VIII and Leonor Plantagenet
About the author
John McNeill teaches at Oxford University’s Department of Continuing Education and is Honorary Secretary of the British Archaeological Association, for whom he has edited and contributed to volumes on Anjou, King’s Lynn and the Fens, the medieval cloister, and English medieval chantries. He was instrumental in establishing the BAA’s International Romanesque Conference Series and has a particular interest in the design of medieval monastic precincts.
Richard Plant has taught at a number of institutions and worked for many years at Christie’s Education in London, where he was deputy academic director. His research interests lie in the buildings of the Anglo-Norman realm and the Holy Roman Empire, in particular in architectural iconography. He is Publicity Officer for the British Archaeological Association, and in addition to this volume has co-edited Romanesque and the Past (2013), Romanesque Patrons and Processes (2018), and Romanesque Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage (2020).
Summary
The Regional and Transregional in Romanesque Europe considers the historiography and usefulness of regional categories, and in so doing explores the strength, durability, mutability and geographical scope of regional and transregional phenomena in the Romanesque period.
