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Gotisk berättelse

Saxat ur Adam Matthew. Skitbra beskrivning av en av aspekterna i den tidiga gotiska terminologin:

In the earliest usage of the word, "gothic" refers to the language and customs of the Goths and, more broadly, the Germanic peoples who in the third, fourth and fifth centuries AD harried the Roman Empire, capturing Athens in 267-8 and sacking Rome in 410. For the Renaissance, therefore, Gothic and Classic were opposites: gothic barbarism, superstition and violence were the abhorred contraries to Classical civilisation, reason and peace. This contrast conditions the gradual extension of the word's referent to include the barbarous, uncouth and unpolished in general. And this more general sense of the word in turn governs, from at least the last decade of the seventeenth century, the use of gothic to mean the medieval. In comparison with the art of the Greeks and Romans, medieval art, architecture and society was thought to be barbaric or, in other words, gothic. Addison illustrates this collocation of the gothic, the barbaric and the medieval in The Spectator, No. 62 (May 11, 1711). Those writers, he opines, who lack the "strength of genius to give that majestic simplicity to nature, which we so much admire in the works of the antients", are "Goths in poetry, who like those in architecture, not being able to come up to the beautiful simplicity of the old Greeks and Romans, have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy".

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