Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral. Philip Ball

Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral



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Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral Philip Ball ebook
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Page: 336
ISBN: 9780061154294


Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries? And why, during this time, did Europeans begin to build churches in a new style, at such immense height and with such glorious play of light, in the soaring manner we now call Gothic? Universe of Stone shows that the Gothic cathedrals encode a far-reaching shift in the way medieval thinkers perceived their relationship with their world. For the first time, they began to believe in an orderly, rational world that could be investigated and...

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