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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral
Old St Paul's[edit]
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The fourth St Paul's, generally referred to as Old St Paul's, was begun by the Normans after the 1087 fire. A further fire in 1135 disrupted the work, and the new cathedral was not consecrated until 1240. During the period of construction, the style of architecture had changed from Romanesque to Gothic and this was reflected in the pointed arches and larger windows of the upper parts and East End of the building. The Gothic ribbed vault was constructed, like that of York Minster, of wood rather than stone, which affected the ultimate fate of the building.[citation needed]
An enlargement programme commenced in 1256. This "New Work" was consecrated in 1300 but not complete until 1314. During the later Medieval period St Paul's was exceeded in length only by the Abbey Church of Cluny and in the height of its spire only by Lincoln Cathedral and St. Mary's Church, Stralsund. Excavations by Francis Penrose in 1878 showed that it was 585 feet (178 m) long and 100 feet (30 m) wide (290 feet (88 m) across the transepts and crossing). The spire was about 489 feet (149 m) in height.[citation needed] By the 16th century the building was deteriorating.
The English Reformation under Henry VIII and Edward VI (accelerated by the Chantries Acts) led to the destruction of elements of the interior ornamentation and the chapels, shrines, and chantries.
St Paul's Cathedral
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Did you know that medieval Old St Paul's Cathedral was a whole 38 metres taller than that of the highest point of new St Paul’s? Built between 1087 and 1314, Old St Paul's also had a vast footprint which stretched longer and wider than our current Cathedral, and would have been a dominant presence at the top of Ludgate Hill. In 1561 the spire collapsed following a lightning strike, and the rest of the Cathedral was famously destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
Image shows an overlaid illustration of Old St Paul's over new St Paul's, and a sixteenth century drawing called Prospect of Ye Citye of London showing the medieval Cathedral complete with spire.
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2024年 可以多談點當代文藝復興人Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949)的作品。
1980 Ezra Pound and His World/ 1989 Ezra Pound and his World (1989) 有貓頭鷹出版社本
List of works[edit]
Poetry[edit]
- 1971 Ouch!
- 1973 London Lickpenny
- 1978 Country Life
- 1987 The Diversions of Purley and Other Poems
Fiction[edit]
- 1982 The Great Fire of London
- 1983 The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
- 1985 Hawksmoor
- 1987 Chatterton
- 1989 First Light
- 1992 English Music
- 1993 The House of Doctor Dee
- 1994 Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (also published as The Trial of Elizabeth Cree)
- 1996 Milton in America
- 1999 The Plato Papers
- 2003 The Clerkenwell Tales
- 2004 The Lambs of London
- 2006 The Fall of Troy
- 2008 The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
- 2009 The Canterbury Tales – A Retelling
- 2010 The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend – A Retelling
- 2013 Three Brothers
- 2020 Mr Cadmus
Non-fiction[edit]
- 1976 Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism
- 1979 Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag, the History of an Obsession
- 1980 Ezra Pound and His World
- 1984 T. S. Eliot
- 1987 Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision
- 1989 Ezra Pound and his World (1989)
- 1990 Dickens
- 1991 Introduction to Dickens
- 1995 Blake
- 1998 The Life of Thomas More
- 2000 London: The Biography
- 2000 The Mystery of Charles Dickens (biographical one-man show performed by Simon Callow)
- 2001 The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures
- 2002 Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion
- 2002 Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
- 2003 The Beginning
- 2003 Illustrated London
- 2004 Escape From Earth
- 2004 Ancient Egypt
- 2004 Chaucer (Nan A. Talese, Doubleday: Ackroyd's Brief Lives)
- 2005 Shakespeare: The Biography
- 2005 Ancient Greece
- 2005 Ancient Rome
- 2006 J.M.W. Turner (Nan A. Talese, Doubleday: Ackroyd's Brief Lives)
- 2007 Thames: Sacred River
- 2008 Coffee with Dickens (with Paul Schlicke)
- 2008 Newton (Nan A. Talese, Doubleday: Ackroyd's Brief Lives)
- 2008 Poe: A Life Cut Short (Nan A. Talese, Doubleday: Ackroyd's Brief Lives)
- 2009 Venice: Pure City
- 2010 The English Ghost
- 2011 London Under
- 2011 The History of England, v.1 Foundation
- 2012 Wilkie Collins (Nan A. Talese, Doubleday: Ackroyd's Brief Lives)
- 2012 The History of England, v.2 Tudors
- 2014 The History of England, v.3 Civil War (also available as Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution)
- 2014 Charlie Chaplin
- 2015 Alfred Hitchcock
- 2016 The History of England, v.4 Revolution
- 2017 Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
- 2018 The History of England, v.5 Dominion
- 2021 The History of England, v.6 Innovation
- 2021 Introducing Swedenborg
- 2022 The Colours of London
- 2023 The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern
Television[edit]
- 2002 Dickens (BBC)
- 2004 London (BBC)
- 2006 The Romantics (BBC)
- 2007 London Visions (BBC)
- 2008 Peter Ackroyd's Thames (ITV)
- 2009 Peter Ackroyd's Venice (BBC)
Honours and awards[edit]
- 1984 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- 1984 Heinemann Award (joint winner) for T. S. Eliot
- 1984 Somerset Maugham Award for The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
- 1984 Whitbread Biography Award for T. S. Eliot
- 1985 Guardian Fiction Prize for Hawksmoor
- 1985 Whitbread Novel Award for Hawksmoor
- 1988 Booker Prize for Fiction – nomination (shortlist) for Chatterton
- 1998 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography) for The Life of Thomas More
- 2001 South Bank Show Annual Award for Literature for London: The Biography
- 2003 British Book Awards Illustrated Book of the Year (Illustrated London shortlisted)
- 2003 Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 2006 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[11]
- 2006 Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from Brunel University.[12]
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