The Gothic Cathedral in Cracow and the European Architecture Around the Year 1300
by Jakub Adamski and Piotr Pajor
This study is devoted to the Gothic cathedral in Cracow, analysed in the broad context of the stylistic transformations occurring in the Gothic architecture around the years 1270-1350.
The turn of the thirteenth century was a difficult period in the history of late medieval Europe, marked by political instability, endless wars, and all possible disasters. Yet it saw an extraordinarily abundant flowering of Gothic architecture, marked by constant stylistic transformations that gave rise to a new phenomenon in European architecture – the late Gothic. This book is devoted to an edifice that perfectly represents these complex transformations: the Gothic cathedral in Cracow (1320-1364). Although situated on the periphery of the Latin world of the era, it is one of the most stylistically advanced buildings that can be counted as examples of architecture around 1300, displaying most of the artistic phenomena that distinguish this period in the history of medieval art. Moreover, this church served as the coronation site and necropolis of the kings of Poland, and the national shrine of the patron saint of the Kingdom, Saint Stanislaus, which situates it alongside such sacred places as those in Reims, Saint-Denis, Westminster, Aachen or Prague. This new study shows the Cracow cathedral in the broad context of the epoch-making stylistic transformations occurring in Gothic architecture around the years 1270-1350, and presents this interregional phenomenon in a completely new manner, taking into account many buildings in Poland and Central Europe, usually overlooked in such studies. In addition to the history of style, the book focuses on the interface of politics, functional and liturgical considerations, and requirements of ceremony and display as determinants of the form and function of a work of architecture.
- By (author) Piotr Pajor
- By (author) Jakub Adamski
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