Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
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Goths
The Goths ( got, 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰, translit=''Gutþiuda''; la, Gothi, grc-gre, Γότθοι, Gótthoi) were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe ...
or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
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Gothic language
Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the ''Codex Argenteus'', a 6th-century copy of a 4th-century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizeable text cor ...
, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
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Crimean Gothic
Crimean Gothic was an East Germanic language spoken by the Crimean Goths in some isolated locations in Crimea until the late 18th century.
Attestation
The existence of a Germanic dialect in Crimea is noted in a number of sources from the 9th ce ...
, the Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths, also extinct
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Gothic alphabet, one of the alphabets used to write the Gothic language
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Gothic (Unicode block)
Gothic is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the East Germanic Gothic language
Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the ''Codex Argenteus'', a 6th-century copy o ...
, a collection of Unicode characters of the Gothic alphabet
Art and architecture
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Gothic art
Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, and much of Northern, Southern and ...
, a Medieval art movement
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Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture (or pointed architecture) is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It e ...
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Gothic Revival architecture
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
(Neo-Gothic)
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Carpenter Gothic
Carpenter Gothic, also sometimes called Carpenter's Gothic or Rural Gothic, is a North American architectural style-designation for an application of Gothic Revival architectural detailing and picturesque massing applied to wooden structures ...
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Collegiate Gothic
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High Victorian Gothic
High Victorian Gothic was an eclectic architectural style and movement during the mid-late 19th century. It is seen by architectural historians as either a sub-style of the broader Gothic Revival style, or a separate style in its own right.
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Romanticism
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Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror in the 20th century, is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name is a reference to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, which was characteristic of the settings of ea ...
or Gothic Romanticism, a literary genre
Entertainment
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''Gothic'' (film), a 1986 film by Ken Russell
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''Gothic'' (series), a video game series originally developed by Piranha Bytes Game Studios
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''Gothic'' (video game), a 2001 video game developed by Piranha Bytes Game Studios
Modern culture and lifestyle
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Goth subculture, a music-cultural scene
Music
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Gothic rock, a genre of rock music
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Gothic metal, a genre of heavy metal music
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Symphony No. 1 "The Gothic" (Brian), a symphony by Havergal Brian
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''Gothic'' (Paradise Lost album), 1991
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''Gothic'' (Nox Arcana album), 2015
Typography
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Blackletter
Blackletter (sometimes black letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule, or Textura, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 until the 17th century. It continued to be commonly used for the Danish, Norweg ...
, Gothic or Textura typefaces, a script historically used throughout Western Europe, resembling mediaeval scribal writing
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Sans-serif
In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. Sans-serif typefaces tend to have less stroke width variation than seri ...
or Gothic typefaces, an unadorned font style, that lacks "serifs" at the ends of strokes
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East Asian Gothic typeface
In the East Asian writing system, gothic typefaces (; ja, ゴシック体, goshikku-tai; ko, 돋움, dotum, ''godik-che'') are a type style characterized by strokes of even thickness and lack of decorations akin to sans serif styles in Weste ...
, the "sans-serif" equivalent for East Asian writing systems
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Block letters
Block letters (known as printscript, manuscript, print writing or ball and stick in academics) are a sans-serif (or "gothic") style of writing Latin script in which the letters are individual glyphs, with no joining.
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or Gothic writing, a style of writing alphabetic scripts and abjads in which characters are individual glyphs without joining
Transport
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SS ''Gothic'' (1893), a White Star Line ship
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SS ''Gothic'' (1947), a Corinthic-class passenger and cargo liner
Other
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Gothic (moth), a species of nocturnal moth
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Gothic Line, a World War II defensive line
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Gothics
Gothics is a mountain in the High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Mountains. The mountain gets its name due to its large rock slides' resemblance to Gothic architecture. The summit has near 360 degree views, which combined with its location in ...
, one of the Adirondack High Peaks in New York
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Gothic F.C., a football club in Norwich, England
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New Gothic
New Gothic or Neo-Gothic is a contemporary art movement that emphasizes darkness and horror.
Manifesto
"The Art Manifesto" was written by Gothic subculture artist Charles Moffat in 2001, who also coined the term in an effort to differentiate it ...
, a contemporary art movement
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Batman: Gothic'', a 1990 comic book story arc
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Gothic plate armour
Gothic plate armour (german: Gotischer Plattenpanzer) was the type of steel plate armour made in the Holy Roman Empire during the 15th century.
History
While the term "Gothic" in art history covers the 12th to 15th centuries, Gothic plate arm ...
, a style of armour used in the 15th century
See also
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Geats
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Goth (disambiguation)
A Goth is a member of the Goths, a group of East Germanic tribes. Two major political entities of the Goths were:
*Visigoths, prominent in Spanish history
*Ostrogoths, prominent in Italian history
Goth or Goths may also refer to:
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Gothic War (disambiguation)
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Gothika
''Gothika'' is a 2003 American supernatural psychological thriller film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, written by Sebastian Gutierrez, and starring Halle Berry in the title role, Robert Downey Jr., Penélope Cruz, Charles S. Dutton, John Carr ...
'', a 2003 American supernatural psychological horror thriller film
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