Main entry:

O'Keeffe, Tadhg.

Title & Author:

Romanesque Ireland : architecture and ideology in the twelfth century / Tadhg O'Keeffe.

Publication:

Dublin : Four Courts, 2003.

Description:

336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-332) and index.
The Romanesque construct: history and historiography -- Romanesque genesis: Irish ecclesiastical architecture to AD 1100 -- Hiberno-Scandinavian and Cistercian Romanesques -- Building authority in southern Ireland: Cashel in the early twelfth century -- From Ardfert to Ardmore: the Romanesque century in Munster -- The politics of patronage and the Romanesque diffusion, 1140-1180 -- Romanesque contexts and meanings: some reflections.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"This book, the first substantial analysis of Romanesque architecture in Ireland to appear in thirty years, crosses the disciplinary boundaries of archaeology, history and art history to demonstrate the importance of Romanesque buildings in the story of Ireland in the central middle ages."--Jacket

Resources:
04

ISBN:

1851826173
9781851826179

Subject:

Church architecture Ireland.
Church buildings Ireland.
Architecture, Romanesque Ireland.
Architecture chrétienne Irlande.
Architecture romane Irlande.
Architecture, Romanesque.
Church architecture.
Church buildings.
Romaans.
Architecture Ireland 12th century.
Sculpture, Romanesque Ireland.
Ireland.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232415
Call No.: NA984 .O5 2003
Status: Available