Pierre d'Angicourt and Angevin Construction

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Research Article| June 01 2016 Pierre d'Angicourt and Angevin Construction Alexander Harper Alexander Harper Princeton University Alexander Harper (PhD, University of Toronto) specializes in architecture and urbanism in late medieval southern Italy. He is currently at work on a book manuscript that examines the architectural and urban histories of new city projects and planned communities in Abruzzo and Apulia initiated by the Angevin kings of Naples. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2016) 75 (2): 140–157. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2016.75.2.140 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Alexander Harper; Pierre d'Angicourt and Angevin Construction. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2016; 75 (2): 140–157. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2016.75.2.140 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search In the southern Italian city of Lucera, the former medieval Muslim settlement turned re-Christianized city in Apulia's fertile Tavoliere plain, a small road just north of the city's impressive early fourteenth-century cathedral is dedicated to an individual integral to the city's late medieval history (Figures 1 and 2).1 That person, a Frenchman named Pierre d'Angicourt, the “prothomagister et provisor operum curie” (headmaster and supervisor of the court's works) under the Angevin king of Naples Charles I (1266–85) and still active at royal construction sites under the successor king Charles II (1285–1309), is identified by a street sign as the cathedral's “architect,” a title bestowed on Pierre for his involvement in nearly a dozen other southern Italian constructions roughly contemporary to Lucera's cathedral. The erection of this sign, a local initiative, speaks to wider popular and scholarly attitudes about the Frenchman. Since the nineteenth century, historians of multiple... You do not currently have access to this content.

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