Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages

Paul Binski is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medieval Art at Cambridge University, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments 

Introduction 
Making “Sense” of Medieval Architecture 
Language, Experience, and Decorum 
Gothic Sublimity? 
Introducing the Argument 

1. Admiratio 
Metaphor and Aspect 
Columns and Import: Th e Backstory 
Great Churches and Rhetorical Occasions 
Eusebius: Jerusalem and Tyre 
Wonder 
Megalomania 

2. Tristitia-Laetitia 
The Road to Compostela and the Banishment of Grief 
Orphic Concord and the Gothic Organum 

3. Terror 
The Place of Fear 
Fruitful Fear 
The Thundering Ark: Organs, Bells 

4. Sublimia 
Suger, Jean de Jandun, Photius 
Gothic Angelization and Exhilaration 
Utterance 

5. Claritas, Jucunditas, Nobilitas 
Claritas 
Jucunditas 
Light, Color, and Countenance 
Nobilitas 

Conclusion: Spectacle, Genre, and Imitation 
Spectacle 
Implications and Challenges 
Genre 
Imitation 

Notes 
Bibliography 
List of Illustrations 
Index