Re-Categorizing Great Britain's Medieval Architecture: a Lesson In
Re-Categorizing Great Britain’s Medieval Architecture: A Lesson in Nineteenth-Century Visual Taxonomy by Courtney Skipton Long A.B., Mount Holyoke College, 2007 M.A., University of Pittsburgh, 2009 Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Pittsburgh 2016 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH The Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences This dissertation was presented by Courtney Skipton Long It was defended on April 14, 2016 and approved by Ryan McDermott, Assistant Professor, Department of English Josh Ellenbogen, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture Kirk Savage, Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture Dissertation Advisor: Christopher Drew Armstrong, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture ii Copyright © by Courtney Skipton Long 2016 iii Re-Categorizing Great Britain’s Medieval Architecture: A Lesson in Nineteenth-Century Visual Taxonomy Courtney Skipton Long, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 2016 This dissertation explores the intersections of architectural history and natural science in the first half of the nineteenth century in Great Britain. Examining a set of seven British architectural historians between 1800 and 1850, an alternate approach to our contemporary understanding of Nineteenth Century architectural history writing is offered through an analysis of visual representations showing change over time. Each chapter confronts shifting notions about the developmental progress of biological and architectural species presented by some of the renowned theorists of natural science and architectural history from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The theories about change over time from Carl Linnaeus, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Charles Lyell, and Charles Darwin, to name a few, are offered in order to contextualize pictorial arrangements of visual knowledge showing change over time in architectural histories of medieval British ecclesiastical buildings.
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