BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online

    Islam and the West: the early use of the pointed arch revisited

    Draper, Peter (2005) Islam and the West: the early use of the pointed arch revisited. Architectural History 48 , pp. 1-20. ISSN 0066-622X.

    Full text not available from this repository.

    Abstract

    Book synopsis: As this is a valedictory rather than an inaugural lecture, it seemed legitimate to be a little self-indulgent in the choice of theme. Every medievalist at some time or other has to take an interest in the role of the pointed arch in the transformation of medieval architecture from Romanesque to Gothic and in the ways that the pointed arch form was subsequently manipulated through the later Middle Ages. It is only a short step, but one that has been taken less often than you might expect, to pursue that interest back into the early use of the pointed arch in Islamic architecture: to ask how it came to replace the semicircular arch of classical architecture and why it was used.

    Metadata

    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
    Depositing User: Sarah Hall
    Date Deposited: 14 Aug 2018 14:05
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:43
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/23534

    Statistics

    Activity Overview
    6 month trend
    0Downloads
    6 month trend
    173Hits

    Additional statistics are available via IRStats2.

    Archive Staff Only (login required)

    Edit/View Item Edit/View Item