Remarks on the Complete Gothic and After-Gothic Styles in Germany

Gothic Scholars Don’t Wear Black Gothic Studies and Gothic Subcultures

are hardly in touch with each other. This is something that should ideally change in the near future, since Gothic Studies and Gothic youth subcultures greatly overlap, at least as regards their common interest in Gothic literature, the iconography and the non-literary texts (films, comics, and so on) derived from it. The multiplicity of texts generated by Gothic, understood here as a narrative...

On gothic cathedrals and contemporary science.

The gothic cathedral is a spectacular achievement of the European Middle Ages. Architecturally, these buildings incorporated revolutionary innovations both in the aesthetics of their design and in their construction. Comparing them to the earlier Romanesque cathedrals, one can observe that the semicircular window arches were substituted with pointed ones. Underneath, the entire weight distribut...

Evolution of Effect: The Numinous in Gothic and Post-Gothic Ghost Experience Literature

Gothic Art and Architecture

Gothic Art and Architecture, religious and secular buildings, sculpture, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts and other decorative arts produced in Europe during the latter part of the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century). Gothic art began to be produced in France about 1140, spreading to the rest of Europe during the following century. The Gothic Age ended with the advent of the Ren...

Annotation and Gothic Hypertext

We often treat annotation as a supplement, scribbling tacked on to the real (hyper) text. Instead, we might view annotation as an organic process in which the current hypertext grows and is elaborated in ways that are unpredictable but not unconstrained. In this, we recognize the old mission of constructive hypertext to form a seedbed and trellis, a structure for what it becoming. A key to cult...