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课程名称：大教堂的时代 课程概述：本课程旨在介绍世界上最令人惊叹的建筑奇迹之一——哥特式大教堂。我们将研究在大教堂阴影下出现的艺术、文学、智力生活、经济以及新的社会安排，这些都是12和13世纪城市复兴的一个重要部分。课程目标是加深对高度中世纪的理解，这是一个与我们仍然息息相关的世界。 课程大纲： 1. **介绍与圣丹尼**：介绍查理曼大帝去世后，巴黎在混乱中的历史，以及在巴黎北部建造的第一座哥特式大教堂——圣丹尼大教堂的背景。探讨修道院院长苏哲如何通过高效的土地管理和商业活动为建造新建筑提供资金。 2. **圣丹尼**：通过院长苏哲的叙述，了解他构建圣丹尼的原因，以及教堂西立面的雕塑表现，探讨如何将“上升的光”这一理念以建筑形式呈现。 3. **建筑创新**：回顾罗曼式教堂的背景，讨论哥特式宗教建筑的起源及其工程创新，包括肋拱顶、加固的柱子、尖拱、飞扶壁等，使得更高、更轻的墙体得以建设。 4. **巴黎圣母院**：探索巴黎圣母院的初建过程及其创新，分析西立面的雕塑项目以及教堂内部的玫瑰窗。 5. **智识与日常生活**：从智识和日常生活的角度审视大教堂，阅读彼得·阿伯拉德的自传，探讨早期大学文化中的学院派方法。 6. **沙特尔大教堂**：研究沙特尔大教堂及其独特的建筑特色和神圣遗物，讨论商人捐赠窗户与城市贸易的关系。 7. **大教堂与十字军**：详尽探讨《罗兰之歌》及其中描绘的窗饰，分析中东遗物与大教堂建筑之间的关系。 8. **圣人与国王**：探讨圣路易斯在巴黎建造圣母大教堂作为新约柜的过程，及其作为十字军的生平。 9. **结论**：总结从中世纪到现在的哥特式大教堂历史。 本课程通过对历史的深刻探索，帮助学员更好理解大教堂所代表的文化与社会背景。
Name:Introduction & Saint-Denis I
Description:An introduction to the history of Paris in the centuries of chaos following the death of Charlemagne in 814 and the building of the first Gothic cathedral at Saint-Denis, just north of Paris. The old abbey church, where the kings of France were buried, was inadequate, and so a new building project was undertaken by Abbot Suger, who financed the new building through efficient land management and the commercial Fair of Lendit along a trade route between northern and southern Europe.
Name:Saint-Denis
Description:Here we encounter the portrait of Abbot Suger via his account of how and why he built Saint-Denis, what is portrayed on the West façade of the cathedral, and how the doctrine of God as light, encountered in a book which had come from Byzantium to the abbey centuries earlier, was translated into architectural form. We see some of the objects that are part of the treasury of Saint-Denis and discuss the Abbot’s notion of “anagogical uplift” as a way of moving—via stained glass—between the Old and New Testaments and from the material to the spiritual plane.
Name:Architectural Innovation
Description:Filling in the background of Romanesque churches that preceded Gothic buildings, we discuss the origins and engineering innovations of the new style of religious architecture. These include ribbed vaults, reinforced pillars, pointed arches, flying buttresses, and a modular system of bay construction; all of which permits the construction of higher and lighter, thinner walls filled with stained glass.
Name:Notre Dame de Paris
Description:Moving to the heart of Paris, we explore the initial construction of Notre-Dame and the innovations that were undertaken almost as soon as the building began. We discuss the sculptural programs of Notre-Dame’s West façade, including the portal which depicts the life of Saint Anne, Christ’s grandmother, and Mary, his mother and the central portal of the Last Judgment. Along the south side, we discover the story of the stoning of Saint Stephen; and, along the North, the miracle of Theophilus and the Virgin. Moving inside the cathedral, we encounter the stunning rose windows of Notre-Dame.
Name:Intellectual and Everyday Life
Description:Here we examine the cathedral in terms of surrounding intellectual and everyday life. A reading of Peter Abelard’s autobiography, The Story of my Misfortunes, testifies to the growth of the scholastic method in the context of the earliest university culture; and two verse comic tales, “The Crucified Priest” and “The Peekaboo Priest” introduce the new mentality of the inhabitant of towns with emphasis on cleverness, quick thinking, and timing along with an anti-clerical spirit.
Name:Our Lady of Chartres
Description:In Module 6 we move West of Paris to the cathedral of Chartres where Gothic architecture hits its stride. We explore the history of Chartres, its unique and mysterious architectural features, and its miraculous relic—the Holy Tunic. We discuss the financing of Chartres as seen in the windows donated by merchant which depict the various urban trades alongside the sculpture of the West façade, the rose and lancet stained glass windows, and the secular Zodiac and Charlemagne windows, the latter of which is linked to important literary works of the period.
Name:Cathedrals and Crusades
Description:In Module 7 we examine in some detail The Song of Roland, portions of which are depicted in the stained glass of Chartres, and we explore the relationship of relics from the Middle East to cathedral building.
Name:Saints and Kings
Description:In Module 8 we explore Saint Louis’s building of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris as a house of glass, a new Ark of the Covenant, to house the relics he had amassed. Using Jean de Joinville’s Life of Saint-Louis as our source, we encounter the Saint King’s life as a crusader, his death, canonization, and the miracles performed by his body on his way to sainthood.
Name:Conclusion
Description:By way of conclusion, we explore the history of Gothic cathedrals from the Middle Ages to the present.
An introduction to some of the most astonishing architectural monuments the world has ever known—Gothic cathedrals. We shall study the art, literature, intellectual life, economics, and new social arrangements that arose in the shadow of the cathedrals and that were such an important part of the revival of cities in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The goal of the course is a better appreciation of the High Middle Ages, a world that is still recognizably our own.
