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Russian Medieval Military Architecture

open access: yesGladius, 1969
In Russia defensive works were not less important than in Western Europe. Russian chronicles are full of reports of the building of towns, of their siege and defence.
Pavel Rappoport
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A methodology to identify a fragment of painted glass from excavations at John Paul II Square in Wrocław

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2021
The aim of the paper is to discuss and analyze the discovery made during an archaeological and architectural rescue research conducted by a team led by Dr Ing. Arch.
Piotr Kmiecik   +3 more
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The North-East living quarter of the medieval pilgrim centre in Banganarti. Archaeological research in 2015 and 2016 [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017
Two seasons of fieldwork in the northeastern part of Banganarti site brought significant data on its stratification, as well as the architecture of medieval dwellings. This paper presents a summary of the results.
Michał Dzik
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Estimation of the Age of Architectural Heritage Objects by Microstructural Changes of Calcite in Lime Mortars of Ancient Brickwork and Masonry

open access: yesBuildings, 2021
Determining the age of ancient architectural and cultural monuments is a significant scientific problem. An approach based on the transformation of portlandite into calcite and subsequent recrystallization of calcite is considered, which allows for ...
Vladimir Kotlyar   +5 more
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The Problem That Is not There: On the Old and New Interpretations of the Tent-Like Churches in Russian Architecture [PDF]

open access: yesAnastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art, 2019
The article deals with the long-discussed problem of the so-called tent-like churches in Russian architecture (of the XVI to the XVII centuries), with all existing theories of their origin being considered, presenting two opposed views tentatively termed
Ivan Sablin
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"Neo-Medievalism Studies”, Italy, and the Four Ghosts: architectural history and the study of medievalism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2022
This historiographical piece has two main objectives. On the one hand, it sets out to offer the first sustained discussion of the study of – and the tendency to ignore, underestimate, and criticise – Italian neo-medieval architecture.
Tommaso Zerbi
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Innovation in English Gothic Architecture: Risks, Impediments, and Opportunities

open access: yesBritish Art Studies, 2017
This essay considers some of the practical and human situations that affected innovation in English medieval architecture. These included the scale of the Norman inheritance, the process of incremental construction, and the personal relationships that ...
Roger Stalley
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Preliminary Results of Non-Contact Studies of the Lapas Complex of Mausoleums

open access: yesАрхеология евразийских степей, 2022
The paper discusses the results of magnetometric studies on the complex of Khan mausoleums near the village of Lapas in Astrakhan Oblast conducted in 2018–2022.
Vladimir G. Bezdudny   +5 more
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Medieval Islamic objects and the architecture of the mind [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2023
This review examines the monograph of Margaret Graves, Arts of Allusion, which offers a nuanced argument about visual representation in a disparate group of portable objects dating to between the ninth and thirteenth centuries and created in the ...
Matt Saba
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Geometry in Medieval Architecture [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1962
Canonic Design in English Mediaeval Architecture The Origin and Nature of Systematic Architectural Design in England, 1215–1515. By B. G. Morgan. Pp. 136 (46 plates). (Liverpool: The University Press, 1961.) 42s.
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