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IN recent literature the term capital studies has become identified to some degree with mediaeval studies. Gütschow,1 Weigand2 and others3 have studied antique capitals. Kautsch's work on late antique and early Christian capitals,4 though not more than a preliminary survey, remains as unique as it is indispensable. But it is in the study of Romanesque and Gothic buildings that systematic, analytical, and comparative capital studies have been most widely applied and with considerable success. Historians of architecture since the nineteenth century5 have examined the capitals of mediaeval buildings as keys to style, regional groupings and reciprocal influences, identification of local workshops and the definition of progressive building periods in single monuments. Such studies have proven singularly fruitful and have led to clarification of many basic problems.
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