Narwhal (narwhal)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Apr-15 20:51:21 UTC
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@nomorepuns Oh, it was because the term "Goth" was a colloquialism at the time for the East Germanic tribe of Vandals peoples, so the term itself was actually originally applied to the architecture in mockery as opposed to classification. Also, since this was around the time the Renaissance first started gaining traction, which in turn overwrote a culture which at the time because almost entirely based around the church, so this paradigm shift in culture coincidentally corresponded with a lot of the ideologies of East Germanic peoples, so the newly formed architecture that evolved from the period of Romanesque architecture was dubbed as "Gothic".
