Romanesque Ireland: Architecture and Ideology in the Twelfth Century.
Author: O’KEEFE, Tadhg.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003. 336 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
“The Romanesque style was a pan-European tradition of art and architecture emerged on the Continent during the eleventh century, surviving until the advent and spread of Gothic in the second half of the twelfth century. The development of Gaelic-Irish Romanesque architecture - from its incubation in late eleventh-century Munster to its swan-song west of the Shannon in the early 1200s - can therefore be seen as part of an international trend. That development in Ireland was a product of the interaction of the institutions of secular and sacred power: most Romanesque buildings on the island were ecclesiastical, and most were served by churchmen supportive of the reform of the Irish Church in the early twelfth century, but secular politics were at the very root of the architectural movement.
This book, the first substantial analysis of Romanesque architecture in Ireland to appear in thirty years, crosses the disciplinary boundaries of archaeology, history and art history to demonstrate the importance of Romanesque buildings in the story of Ireland in the central middle ages.”
ISBN: 1851826173
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