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  • The original Goths were the Germanic tribe who made incursions into the declining Roman Empire during the fourth and fifth centuries AD. Goths became a byword for destruction and pillage.
  • The culture of the Middle Ages became called ‘Gothic’ as a result of the first great misappropriation of the term…
  • From the 1760’s onwards a new form of horror literature made its appearance, first in England but from the 1780s spreading to mainland Europe and Ameraica. These novels, whose plots were punctuated with ghosts’ murders, abductions, and all sorts of supernatural or disagreeable happenings. Medieval Abbeys and castles where commonly their setting with the consequence that they where dubbed ‘Gothic’.
  • The use of ‘Gothic’ to describe horror literature allowed it to be extended to anything horrific, unsettling, dark or bizarre. Each new application within the core Gothic disciplines of fiction, poetry, art and, as time went on, film, skewed the direction of this development until it became acceptable to grant the word to any artistic expression of extremity and hysteria.
  • In 1978 and 1979 the punk movement in Britain began to develop offshoots of dark and pessimistic music which were described by a bemused music press as ‘Gothic’ in contrast with the general run of pop. Despite fragmenting and subdividing endlessly, the Goth scene has persisted for over twenty years and is now one of the main mechanisms by which Gothic cultural elements are sorted and translated.