At 03:17 PM 12/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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
of course millennialism, as cohn who wrote a book about it without ever
mentioning 1000 showed, is more than merely the chronological cusp of a
thousand year period.
>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.
i was actually looking for a term that cd encompass both gothic and
romanesque as a recogniton that they are part of the same "elan" (so for
the architectural and artistic styles of the 11th to 15th cns).
r
>Leah
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