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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

by Adams, Henry

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Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
ISBN 10
0691039712
ISBN 13
9780691039718
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1981. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Leather. 0691039712 . Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 13 full-page B&W photographs. . Former owner's signature on ffep, else fine; otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket shows moderate wear at the head, heel, and corners only. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD-. . B&W Plates. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. xiv, 401 pp .

Synopsis

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney 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, Adams' freeedom from the European traditions of study lends an exuberance—and puckish wit—to his writings.

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Bookseller
Round Table Books, LLC US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
27895
Title
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Author
Adams, Henry
Format/Binding
Leather
Book Condition
Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
Edition
First Edition Thus. First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0691039712
ISBN 13
9780691039718
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Place of Publication
Princeton, NJ
Date Published
1981
Keywords
0691039712, France;, Archictecture;, French History;, mont-saint-michel;, Chartres;, Henry Adams;, TRAVEL;
Bookseller catalogs
Travel & Adventure; Architecture;

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