{"title":"Durham and Islam: The Fortunes of a Theory","authors":"Tom Nickson","doi":"10.1080/00681288.2025.2529711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00681288.2025.2529711","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces the fortunes of the theory that medieval architecture in northern Europe—particularly Durham Cathedral—was inspired by architecture in Islamic lands, especially Islamic Spain (al-Andalus). I briefly review the critical fortunes of Christopher Wren’s arguments for the ‘Saracenic’ origins of Gothic architecture, and then examine how and why these ideas were developed in France in the inter-war period, especially under Henri Focillon and his students. One of those students, Jean Bony, played a key role in popularizing such ideas after the Second World War, but a new generation of scholars has grown increasingly sceptical of them. I then turn to the Middle Ages to consider levels of access to key Islamic monuments and their followers in Spain, arguing that the Aljafería in Saragossa may have played an important role in inspiring a group of buildings with intersecting rib vaults in northern Spain and the French Pyrenees. Medieval and modern means of architectural transmission are explored as a way of reflecting on the practices of architectural history and the forces that shape it.","PeriodicalId":42723,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the British Archaeological Association","volume":"178 1","pages":"8-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147900219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Beautiful Game: Courtly Love Posies in Anglo-Norman Inscribed on Jewellery and Seals","authors":"Malcolm Jones","doi":"10.1080/00681288.2024.2351731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00681288.2024.2351731","url":null,"abstract":"For Dana It is often forgotten that a variety of French peculiar to the British Isles, known as Anglo-Norman was, for more than four centuries post-Conquest, the default language for inscriptions o...","PeriodicalId":42723,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the British Archaeological Association","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142221020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jon Cannon, FSA (8 June 1962–4 May 2023)","authors":"Beth Williamson","doi":"10.1080/00681288.2024.2382532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00681288.2024.2382532","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42723,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the British Archaeological Association","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142221021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Püsterich of Sondershausen: An Explosive Bronze Object between Art, Science and Questions of Human Nature in the 13th Century","authors":"Joanna Olchawa","doi":"10.1080/00681288.2024.2376809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00681288.2024.2376809","url":null,"abstract":"Preserved in the Castle Museum at Sondershausen in central Germany is a bronze taking the form of a rotund, kneeling man. The object, nearly 22.5 inches tall and cast in a single piece, is known to...","PeriodicalId":42723,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the British Archaeological Association","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142221088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Byzantine to Norman Italy: Mediterranean Art and Architecture in Medieval Bari","authors":"Maria Harvey","doi":"10.1080/00681288.2024.2369398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00681288.2024.2369398","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42723,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the British Archaeological Association","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141945544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La coupe de sainte Agnès: France, Espagne, Angleterre","authors":"Gerhard Lutz","doi":"10.1080/00681288.2024.2369403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00681288.2024.2369403","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42723,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the British Archaeological Association","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141945543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La cattedrale medievale di Catania: Un cantiere normanno nella contea di Sicilia","authors":"Michele Luigi Vescovi","doi":"10.1080/00681288.2024.2369406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00681288.2024.2369406","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42723,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the British Archaeological Association","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142221022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Trees of the Cross: Wood as Subject and Medium in the Art of Late Medieval Germany","authors":"Susan L. Green","doi":"10.1080/00681288.2024.2369397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00681288.2024.2369397","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42723,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the British Archaeological Association","volume":"295 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142221042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Textiles of Medieval Iberia: Cloth and Clothing in a Multi-Cultural Context","authors":"Francisco de Asís García García","doi":"10.1080/00681288.2024.2369396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00681288.2024.2369396","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42723,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the British Archaeological Association","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142221023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Early Irish Sculpture and the Art of the High Crosses","authors":"David Stocker","doi":"10.1080/00681288.2024.2379197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00681288.2024.2379197","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42723,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the British Archaeological Association","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141945542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}