334: gothic Nov 7, 2015

Have you ever wondered why it is that Gothic architecture was not made by the Goths‽ 'Gothic' is an interesting word in that it refers to the East Germanic who are know form the earliest recorded Germanic manuscripts, but much like the Greeks referred to all non classical (i.e. not Roman or Greek) people as 'barbarous', in the 17th and 18th century, non classical people, especially of northern Europe were referred to as Gothic. Architecture that was not in classical styles, were therefore Gothic, giving us the meaning of Gothic Architecture.