How Do They See Us from Afar: British Scholars and Romanesque and Gothic Architecture in Lesser Poland

Węcławowicz, Tomasz

doi:10.4467/2353737XCT.18.130.8969

Abstract

Romanesque and Gothic architecture in Poland cannot compete with European medieval masterpieces even though before the 15^th century, medieval buildings in the Kingdom were created by foreign master-masons who came from far afield. Until recently, Gothic and especially Romanesque churches did not attract attention of British scholars. It is now rewarding for the Polish reader, that thanks to Paul Crossley, Alexandra Gajewski, Zoë Opačić, Agnieszka Sadraei and primarily Eric Fernie, Polish medieval architecture appears for the first time in international literature. Encouragingly, even if it has been created on the outskirts of the Latin culture, it is now seen as being closely anchored in the European artistic universum of that time.

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