Imagining Invention: The Character of the “Gothic architect” and England, 1200–1400

For over four centuries, scholars of Gothic architecture in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have continuously reimagined their designers by conflating them into an abstracted and generalized historical character. The resulting “Gothic architect” forms an internal and self-referential discour...

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Main Author: James Hillson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Yale University 2017-06-01
Series:British Art Studies
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Online Access:http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-6/imagining-invention