Transformatio Et Continuatio: Forms of Change and Constancy of Antiquity in the Iberian Peninsula 500-1500 (Transformationen Der Antike) (German Edition) (Transformationen Der Antike, 43)

"Medieval thinkers were convinced that they themselves were still citizens of the empire, which had been founded by Augustus." This book is devoted to substantiate this claim of William Heckscher. It does so by tracing Antiquity’s afterlife in various genres on the Iberian Peninsula. The book is a manifest for a special transformation and, moreover, continuation of antiquity in the so-called Middle Ages in Spain, going against the commonly held view that only the European Renaissance did justice to and came to the rescue of Antiquity. It describes how the Visigoths preserved classical Antiquity in the 6th and 7th century, how Roman influence manifests itself on the Pórtico de la Gloria of Santiago de Compostela, how the Iberian Peninsula was reluctant to adopt the European Gothic Art around 1200 and how the Catholic Kings went back to forms and ideas of late Antiquity around 1500. In doing so this book offers an alternative to the influential and, so far, widely accepted concept of the reception of Antiquity, which is Erwin Panofky’s __Principle of disjunction__. "Medieval thinkers were convinced that they themselves were still citizens of the empire, which had been founded by Augustus." This book is devoted to substantiate this claim of William Heckscher. It does so by tracing Antiquity’s afterlife in various genres on the Iberian Peninsula. The book is a manifest for a special transformation and, moreover, continuation of antiquity in the so-called Middle Ages in Spain, going against the commonly held view that only the European Renaissance did justice to and came to the rescue of Antiquity. It describes how the Visigoths preserved classical Antiquity in the 6th and 7th century, how Roman influence manifests itself on the Pórtico de la Gloria of Santiago de Compostela, how the Iberian Peninsula was reluctant to adopt the European Gothic Art around 1200 and how the Catholic Kings went back to forms and ideas of late Antiquity around 1500. In doing so this book offers an alternative to the influential and, so far, widely accepted concept of the reception of Antiquity, which is Erwin Panofky’s Principle of disjunction . Medieval thinkers were convinced that they themselves were still citizens of the empire, which had been founded by Augustus," according to William Heckscher. This book is devoted to substantiate this. It does so by tracing Antiquity's afterlife in various genres on the Iberian Peninsula. The book is a manifest for the continuation of Romanitas in the Spanish Middle Ages, against the common view that only the Renaissance did justice to Antiquity Inhalt Vorwort Continuatio statt Renaissance Iberian Christians and the Classical Past Das ‚Epochenjahr‘ 711 Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides: A Geographical Myth in the Creation Tapestry? The superstes The Master of the Tympanum of Cabestany Translationen der Antike Von der Wanderung eines Kaiserbildes – Konstantin in Hispania und Reconquista Mittelalter und Transformation Orts- und Namensregister