Abstract
Juckes, Tim. 2012. The Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St Elizabeth in Košice - Town, Court, and Architecture in Late Medieval Hungary (Architectura Medii Aevi 6). Turnhout: Brepols. XII+292 pp. 224 figs. Reviewed by Marianne Sághy, Central European University (CEU), Budapest
Highlights
Tim Juckes of the Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna has written a wonderful book that Hungarian, German and Slovak scholars so far have failed to write
Elizabeth parish church of Kassa, Košice in Slovakia. This elegantly written, eminently readable study that marshals evidence and theory with admirable clarity and unfailing good cheer is, first and foremost, an architectural history, offering a thorough analysis of the phases of construction and architectural decisions taken by the patrons and master builders of this church throughout its seven hundred years of existence
Lapides loquuntur: Juckes reads the building as a monument that speaks to those who approach it with the right questions
Summary
This work, an outgrowth of the author’s PhD dissertation from the Courtauld Institute, is the first comprehensive scholarly monograph in any language about the largest and most ambitious Gothic construction in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, the St. Elizabeth parish church ( cathedral) of Kassa ( called Cassovia, Kaschau), Košice in Slovakia.
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