Gothic
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Gothic or goth may refer to:
[edit] Germanic tribe
- Goths (Gothos, Getas, Gota), a Germanic tribe
- Gothic language
- Gothic alphabet
- Old Gutnish
- Götaland
[edit] Renaissance
From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, gotico, with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of 'classical' or 'Roman', hence:
- High Middle Ages European art, especially architecture:
- Gothic art
- Gothic architecture
- International Gothic, a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s
- Gothic Revival architecture originating in the 18th century, in its early, fanciful phase sometimes spelled "Gothick"
- Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
- Blackletter (Gothic script), a script developed in the Middle Ages
From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general, with grim overtones:
- Gothic fiction, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later
[edit] Romanticism
From its use in Romanticism, the word in the 20th century came to refer to anything dark or gloomy:
- Gothic fiction
- Goth subculture
- Gothic rock
- Gothic metal
- Gothic fashion
- Gothic (computer game), a roleplaying computer game
- Gothic (film), a 1986 film by Ken Russell
- Gothic (album), a 1992 album by the heavy metal band Paradise Lost
- Goth (game), a horror trivia game
- Gothic Romanticism
[edit] Mountain
- Gothics, one of the Adirondack High Peaks in New York.
[edit] Recent
- Another name for sans-serif typefaces
- Japanese gothic typeface, a common printing style in Japanese printing
- Gothic chess, a chess variant
- Gothic (computer game)