Someone Is Confused Why “Gothic” Can Describe Dark Fashion Or Churches, So Tumblr Explains
Nowadays, when someone mentions the word ‘goth’ in a casual conversation, you probably instantly think of a black-clad, pale person with leather boots and eyes smeared in black liner. But if you’re a history nerd or architecture fan, you might have a completely different visual spring to your mind. Why is that?
Etymology documents the change in words and their meanings, together with their origins and roots. And while there are plenty of other words that history completely changed, the word ‘gothic’ had quite a fascinating journey. One Tumblr user decided to ask why that particular word meant so many different things and other people surely delivered. Scroll down below to read their explanation and tells us what you think!
One person asked why the word ‘gothic’ has such vastly different meanings and people came together to explain it
Watch this video by Dan Adams that puts the word evolution into one solid sequence
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Share on FacebookThere's even a connection of the Gothic architecture to actual Goths - the Visigothic kingdom existed around the south of France and modern day Spain until the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, which ended around 788. The moors were skilled builders and the Islamic world had already used the lancet (or pointed) arch as an architectural element in such edifices as the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, built around 705, so it imported them into buildings in Spain, including the Great Mosque of Cordoba. Around 1083, the first pointed arches attested in Christian Architecture were built at the Abbey of Cluny, in southern France. This pre-dates by 16 years the conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, which is assumed by most historians to be the spark that led to the wide adoption of Islamic architectural elements in Christian architecture, so it seems reasonable to assume that the influence was from nearby Moorish Spain, the ancient lands of the Visigoths...
Oh, I forgot to mention that Cluny Abbey was founded in 910 by none other than William I "The Pious", Duke of Aquitaine, one of the successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom, so the name "gothic architecture", could be derived directly from that.
Load More Replies...Throw in Southern Gothic (think Faulkner) and you've got a whole different definition; decayed, debauched, sad, kinky, consumptive, melancholic, plus a host of disorders from the DSM-V (many for very good reasons)...
The explanations were so rambling and the sentences so weirdly constructed that I couldn't understand half of what they were trying to say (English is not my first language, so this block of text with weird grammar is kind of hard to decipher). I got the overall idea and I think it's interesting, but I wish they'd been more articulate and clear.
welcome to the internet, a lawless and grammarless land of confusion
Load More Replies...Step 1. We are the goths. Step 2. We hate the goths. Step 3. We love the goths. Step 4. We hate the folks who love the folks who love the goths.
TM is just something we gen-z-ers like to add I think
Load More Replies...Are you ok? Do you need me to take you to the psych ward?
Load More Replies...There's even a connection of the Gothic architecture to actual Goths - the Visigothic kingdom existed around the south of France and modern day Spain until the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, which ended around 788. The moors were skilled builders and the Islamic world had already used the lancet (or pointed) arch as an architectural element in such edifices as the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, built around 705, so it imported them into buildings in Spain, including the Great Mosque of Cordoba. Around 1083, the first pointed arches attested in Christian Architecture were built at the Abbey of Cluny, in southern France. This pre-dates by 16 years the conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, which is assumed by most historians to be the spark that led to the wide adoption of Islamic architectural elements in Christian architecture, so it seems reasonable to assume that the influence was from nearby Moorish Spain, the ancient lands of the Visigoths...
Oh, I forgot to mention that Cluny Abbey was founded in 910 by none other than William I "The Pious", Duke of Aquitaine, one of the successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom, so the name "gothic architecture", could be derived directly from that.
Load More Replies...Throw in Southern Gothic (think Faulkner) and you've got a whole different definition; decayed, debauched, sad, kinky, consumptive, melancholic, plus a host of disorders from the DSM-V (many for very good reasons)...
The explanations were so rambling and the sentences so weirdly constructed that I couldn't understand half of what they were trying to say (English is not my first language, so this block of text with weird grammar is kind of hard to decipher). I got the overall idea and I think it's interesting, but I wish they'd been more articulate and clear.
welcome to the internet, a lawless and grammarless land of confusion
Load More Replies...Step 1. We are the goths. Step 2. We hate the goths. Step 3. We love the goths. Step 4. We hate the folks who love the folks who love the goths.
TM is just something we gen-z-ers like to add I think
Load More Replies...Are you ok? Do you need me to take you to the psych ward?
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