Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning / / Gunter Bandmann.

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• VerfasserIn: Bandmann, Gunter,
• MitwirkendeR: Böker, Hans Josef,
• TeilnehmendeR: Böker, Hans.; Wallis, Kendall.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 80 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Bearing Bandmann's Meaning: A Translator's Introduction --; 1. The Problem of Meaning in Architecture --; 2. The Symbolic Meaning of Buildings According to Written and Visual Sources --; 3. Historical Meaning --; 4. The Decline of Symbolic and Historical Meaning --; Afterword --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231501729; 9783110442472
• DOI: 10.7312/band12704
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gunter Bandmann.

At last available in English, this classic text was originally published in Germany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmann analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. He examines the occurrence and recurrence of basic forms not as stylistic evolutions but as meaningful expressions of meta-material content and develops an architectural iconography of symbolic, historical, and aesthetic elements.