Early Medieval Architecture in Western Europe
Charles B. McClendon
The precise definition of the early Middle Ages as a historical period is far from clear, specific beginning and end whole. In terms architecture, it generally taken to postdate experiments late antique/early Christian sometime soon after year 1000, when according monk Raoul Glaber world put on “white mantle churches,” which usually related emergence Romanesque. This bibliography follows these general chronological perimeters, extending middle 6th 11th century. Unlike Romanesque later Gothic, medieval architecture does not embody single, particular style, aside often perceived antiquarian tendencies so-called Carolingian Renaissance 8th 9th centuries under Charlemagne his immediate successors. Most studies are therefore regional, produced by scholars writing in their native languages focused monuments homeland.
Art History