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Item Number: 112275
Title: St. Elizabeth's in Kosice: Town, Court and Church Building in Late Medieval Hungary
Author: Juckes, Tim
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9782503531090
Description: Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. 28cm., pbk., 304pp., 240 illus. Summary: One of the most important building projects in late medieval Hungary was the reconstruction of St. Elizabeth’s in Košice (present-day Slovakia). The burghers of this prosperous, free royal town decided to rebuild their main parish church shortly before 1400 and work continued, with several interruptions, into the late fi fteenth century. Along with the scale and representative ambition of the design, the new church’s unusual artistic character ensures its exceptional value for architectural history – not only within Hungary, but in the Central European region as a whole. It is this value as an art-historical document that the present work seeks to exploit. It approaches the church’s fabric as a source of information about its patrons, masons and congregations, attempting to locate the dynamics behind the design choices made. This necessitates, firstly, a detailed reconstruction of the building enterprise itself. Th e focus then shifts to the impact of the St. Elizabeth’s project both in Upper Hungary and further afi eld (Transylvania, Lesser Poland), allowing the town lodge’s remarkable achievements be set fully in inter-regional context. (Architectura Medii Aevi, 6)
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