IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 814: Brick and Stone against Heresy and for Orthodoxy
Tuesday 14 July 2009, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | British Brick Society |
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Organiser: | David H. Kennett, British Brick Society |
Moderator/Chair: | Thomas Gurling, Luminesence Laboratory, Department of Archaeology, Durham University |
Paper 814-a | Albi Cathedral (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Liturgy, Technology |
Paper 814-b | Promoting Orthodoxy: Oxford and Cambridge Colleges 1400-1600 (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Architecture - Secular, Education, Social History |
Paper 814-c | Appropriation and Cultural Conversion: The Creation of a New Christian Architectural Language in Norman Sicily (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Byzantine Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Abstract | Buildings of brick and stone were constructed in the middle ages to emphasise orthodoxy and to combat heresy. Albi Cathedral looks like a fortress while Oxford and Cambridge colleges have plan forms to designed to be both welcoming to those who accept orthodoxy but rejecting to those who promote heresy. |