At 02:54 PM 12/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 12/20/00 2:01:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
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>On popular millennial movements, Gombrich was writing about them long ago.
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>pat
Pat, which essay are you thinking of with regard to millenialism? As I
understand Gombrich, he is a very stimulating writer and strong thinker,
but was "really" a Renaissance expert w/ an eye for the antique and had
little or nothing to say about the 11th century popular culture
Richard, in response to your question about what to call the proto-gothic
or 12th C inbetween period, Larry Hoey, whose recent death was such a loss
to us on so many levels, was working on exactly this question of transition
as a formal problem in architecture (which, along with monumental
sculpture, is another mode of cognition or thinking), but had not to my
knowledge come up with a "name" for whatever this (cultural period and/or
proclivity) is (but if anyone knows otherwise, please post!)--this may be
just as well -- why add another proper noun.
Leah
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