Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
by Adams, Henry; Carney, Raymond (Introduction and Notes by)
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- ISBN 10
- 0140390545
- ISBN 13
- 9780140390544
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Harmondsworth: Penguin Books; Penguin Classics Series, 1986. xli, 398 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal journey but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments of a past civilization. With daring and inventive conceits, Adams looks at the ordinary people, places, and events in the context of the social conventions and systems of thought and belief of the thirteenth century, turning the study of history into a kind of theater. As Raymond Carney discusses in his introduction, Adam's freedom from the European traditions of study lends exuberance-and puckish wit-to his writings." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.
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- Title
- Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
- Author
- Adams, Henry; Carney, Raymond (Introduction and Notes by)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0140390545
- ISBN 13
- 9780140390544
- Publisher
- Penguin Books; Penguin Classics Series
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / French; European / 3. Medieval / Gothic; Architecture / Religious Buildings;
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