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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres / by Henry Adams ; with an introduction by Ralph Adams Cram.
LIBRA - Special DC801.M7515 A3x 1981
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, Henry, 1838-1918.
- Series:
- Princeton paperbacks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Le Mont-Saint-Michel (France).
- Cathédrale de Chartres.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- France--Le Mont-Saint-Michel.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 401 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1981]
- Summary:
- This first paperback facsimile of the classic 1913 edition includes thirteen photographs and numerous illustrations of the great cathedrals of Northern France. Henry Adams referred to this book as "A Study of Thirteenth-Cntury Unity," and its expansive scope, together with the author's deep understanding of the period, makes it a classic in art history as well as in American literature. He wrote, "I wanted to show the intensity of the vital energy of a given time, and of course that intensity had to be stated in its two highest terms--religion and art."
- Henry Adams' record of his journeys through France, searching for images of unity in an age of conflict, is accompanied by observations on literature, politics, religion, and major church leaders such as Abelard, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Thomas Aquinas.
- Contents:
- Saint Michel de la Mer del Peril
- La chanson de Roland
- The Merveille
- Normandy and the Île de France
- Towers and portals
- The Virgin of Chartres
- Roses and apses
- The twelfth-century glass
- The legendary windows
- The court of the queen of heaven
- The three queens
- Nicolette and Marion
- Les Miracles de Nortre Dame
- Abélard
- The mystics
- Saint Thomas Aquinas.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1913.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is Fifth Princeton Paperback printing, 1989.
- ISBN:
- 0691003351
- 9780691003351
- 0691039712
- 9780691039718
- OCLC:
- 8341799
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