Gothic

Gothic or Goth may refer to:

Germanic persons

Originally, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes.
*The Goths –
**the Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the Goths
***the Crimean Gothic, Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths
**the Gothic alphabet, one of the alphabets used to write the Gothic language

Late Medieval art

In the Late Middle Ages, "Germanic" (as opposed to "Romance")
*Gothic art, a Medieval art movement
**International Gothic, a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s
**Gothic architecture
***Gothic Revival architecture originating in the 18th century, in its early, fanciful phase sometimes spelled "Gothick"
***Brick Gothic-a reduced style of Gothic architecture in Northern Europe, especially in the regions around the Baltic Sea without natural rock resources.
***Carpenter Gothic
***Polish Gothic
***Portuguese Late Gothic (Manueline)
**Blackletter ("Gothic script"), a script developed in the Middle Ages

Romanticism

From the 18th century, the word came to gloomy or grim overtones in Romanticism:
*Gothic Romanticism
*Gothic fiction, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later.
*Gothic horror, a subgenre of film which combines elements of horror and romance in gothic settings
*Southern Gothic The dark and horrific genre of literature based in the Southern USA
*Southern Ontario Gothic
*Gothic double - literary concept

Goth subculture

The Goth subculture, developed on the foundations of Gothic rock.

* Gothic rock is a kind of rock music, sometimes with rather gloomy overtones.
*Goth slang
*Gothic aesthetics
*Gothic fashion
*Gothic Lolita

ans-serif typeface

"Gothic" is another name for sans-serif typefaces (especially in US usage)
*Century Gothic
*Franklin Gothic
*News Gothic
*Copperplate Gothic
*Bank Gothic
*Benguiat Gothic
* East Asian gothic typeface, a common printing style in East Asian printing

Other

*Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
*Gothic metal, a genre of music which combines the dark melancholy of goth rock with the aggression of Heavy Metal.
*Gothics, one of the Adirondack High Peaks in New York.
*"Gothic" (film), Ken Russell film.
* Goth (Silverwing Character), a fictional bat from the "Silverwing" series of novels
* "Goth" (novel), a Japanese novel, which was adapted into a manga
*Gothic F.C., a football club based in Norwich, England
*"Gothic" (video game) developed by Piranha Bytes followed by two sequels "Gothic II" and "Gothic 3"
*SS "Gothic", a Corinthic-class passenger and cargo liner, used as a royal yacht by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in the 1950s
*Goth (board game), a game based on horror trivia and pop-culture

ee also

*Gothenburg (disambiguation)
*Gothicismus
*Sturm und Drang
*Gothika
*American Gothic (disambiguation)
*Gothicmed