Christopher Crockett a écrit:
> Erwin Panofsky, Gothic Architecture and
> Scholasticism_ [1951]).
>
> Is Panofsky's book known in theological circles at all?
>
> I can't recall ever seeing an opinion of it from an historian of religion/
> theology. Is this because it is unknown in those rarified regions or
> because it is just dismissed out of hand as the ininformed work of an
> outsider?
>
> I'd be interested to hear any "professional" opinions of the book
There is a recent study in German:
Christoph Markschies:
Gibt es eine "Theologie der gotischen Kathedrale"?
Nochmals: Suger von Saint-Denis und Sankt Dionys vom Areopag.
Abhandlungen der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse; Jg. 1995, Abh. 1
(ISBN 3-8253-0727-5)
Table of contents:
0. Einleitung.
1. Die klassische Theorie I: Erwin Panofsky.
2. Die klassische Theorie II: Otto von Simson und seine Nachfolger.
3. Vorüberlegungen eines Theologen zu einem möglichen Zusammenhang von mittelalterlicher Theologie und
Architektur
4. Welcher Zusammenhang besteht zwischen Sugers Schriften und dem Corpus Dionysiacum?
5. Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.
6. Anhang [...].
7. Bibliographie [therein among many many others: Panofsky, E./Panofsky-Soergel, G.: Abbot Suger on the Abbey
Church of St.-Denis and its Art Treasurex [Translation by E. P. himself], Princeton 1979.
Markschies is a young professor at Jena University and tries to show the weaknesses of Panofsky's views - but his
thesis has many weaknesses too. He is - working mainly in patristics - not too familiar with the Medieval Ages
which sometimes leads him towards hasty conclusions. His article therefore, in my opinion, is very interesting
and, as your question shows, probably unique in its field, but not undisputed at all.
Daniel Bolliger
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