South French Gothic. Monograph

The main goal of the monograph is to identify the deep and complex relationship of the religious and mystical paradigm of the original "Oxitan civilization" of the south of France and the Catholic Church, which defeated the bloody Albigan wars, with the artistic practice of the builders of the cult Gothic structures of the South of France. In addition to the literary sources previously used in the scientific circulation, materials of little -known foreign publications, archival documents (kindly provided by the Augusten Museum, Toulouse University and the Catholic Institute of Toulouse, the Center for Qatari Research in Krankson), as well as the materials of direct research by the author of the field objects of the studied region were involved . The analysis of all these data made it possible to see and evaluate the cultural and historical background, which became fertile soil for the appearance and spread of Gothic art, the subsequent formation and spread of a kind of Gothic architecture of the south of France. For the first time, a number of new hypotheses are introduced into scientific circulation, allowing to look more objectively at the features of the cult Gothic of Southern France. Based on the foregoing first in domestic media, it became possible to propose a reasonable, in the author’s opinion, the classification of the cult Gothic structures of the south of France, which naturally correlates with the data of scientific publications.
For a wide range of readers interested in Gothic art. It may be useful to students, graduate students and teachers of art universities and faculties