Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture

Alice Isabella Sullivan, Ph.D., (2017), University of Michigan, is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies at Tufts University. She specializes in the artistic production of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres.Kyle G. Sweeney, Ph.D., (2017), Rice University, is Assistant Professor of Art History at Winthrop University and a specialist in the architectural and urban history of late medieval and early modern France.

• AcknowledgmentsList of illustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAlice Isabella Sullivan and Kyle G. SweeneyRelativizing the Lateness of Late Gothic ArchitectureRobert BorkPart 1: Space and Reception: Western Perspectives1 Late Gothic Medieval Imaginations in Jean Fouquet’s Grandes chroniques de FranceMaile S. Hutterer2 Reading Late Gothic ArchitectureThe Balustrades at Notre-Dame, Caudebec-en-CauxAbby McGehee3 The Plague, the Parish, and the Perpendicular StyleTheories of Change in Late Medieval English Architecture from John Aubrey to John HarveyZachary Stewart4 “Toutefois moderne, sans tenir de l’antique”Critical Views on Gothic and Renaissance Interaction in Early Modern French Architecture between the 16th and 18th CenturiesFlaminia BardatiPart 2: Experimentation and Innovation in Central Europe5 The Development of Western and Central European Gothic Architecture around 1300 and Its Modern HistoriographyJakub Adamski6 Did Jan Dlugosz Read Vitruvius?On the Reception of the Myth about the Natural Origins of Architecture in Central Europe in the Late Middle AgesMarek Walczak7 Entwined Meanings and Organic Form at the Prague Cathedral Royal OratoryAlice Klima8 Conflicting ViewsDesigning the South Transept of Prague CathedralJana GajdošováPart 3: Global Gothics on the Margins of Europe and Beyond9 The Currency of the Gothic in the Carpathian Mountain RegionsAlice Isabella Sullivan10 When Venus Met GodfreyThe Evocation of Gothic Antiquity in the Architecture of Venetian CyprusMichalis Olympios11 Memory, Modernity, and Anachronism at the Convent of San Juan de los Reyes, ToledoCostanza Beltrami12 Colonial Gothic and the Negotiation of Worlds in 16th-Century Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicPaul NiellAfterword: Unruly GothicJacqueline E. JungSelect BibliographyIndex

"In a time when the more inclusive label “early modern” has largely come to substitute for the more stylistically determined and Eurocentric “Renaissance,” Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture scrutinizes the new, fine line between late medieval and early modern architecture. [...] Scholars of medieval and early modern architecture will enjoy reading this erudite and accessibly written work from cover to cover, as it continues a robust scholarly conversation that has been ongoing in multiple subfields of architectural history for more than a decade [...] The production values of books in this series have been excellent since the series moved to Brill, and Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture is no exception, being as much a pleasure to hold as it is to read." Lindsay S. Cook, in: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 83.2, pp. 234-236"While the volume’s ostensible focus is lateness and modernity, it is also in large part a study of architectural memory. The topic of architectural memory is an important thread demonstrating how the progress of modernity is viewed through the lens of the past [...] of clear interest to architectural historians of this period, the volume’s attention to collective memories (both real and fictive) not only in architecture itself but also in ornamentation, historiography, and terminology (namely, what and where is ‘Gothic’?) will also make it appealing to art historians." Elisa Foster, in: Architectural Histories 12.1“Taken as a whole, Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture, and the body of scholarship it represents, begins to fill a significant lacuna created by longstanding historiographic biases. […] Overall, the editors have succeeded in making a clear and important intervention through a sustained critique of the language and assumptions that have long marginalized late Gothic architecture, marking a significant step toward rethinking Gothic beyond traditional stylistic, temporal, and geographic boundaries.” Meredith Cohen, University of California, in caa.reviews