Download or read book Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning written by Gunter Bandmann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-06 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last available in English, this classic text was originally published in Germany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmann analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. He examines the occurrence and recurrence of basic forms not as stylistic evolutions but as meaningful expressions of meta-material content and develops an architectural iconography of symbolic, historical, and aesthetic elements.