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Mont Saint Michel And Chartres

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Mont Saint Michel And Chartres

by Adams, Henry

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Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. 19th impression.. Hardback. Cloth spined boards, VG. xiv+401pp, colour frontis, 12 b/w plates, index, Ex Libris the Earl of Belmore with his signature dated 1937, cloth a little rubbed to the head & tail of the spine, corners bumped, paper a little yellowed at the corners, otherwise a nice copy. Adams' celebrated mix of history, architecture & religion in which he describes the Medieval ideaology as as expressed in the cathedrals of France. The cathedrals to him expressed 'an emotion, the deepest man ever felt - the struggle of his own littleness to grasp the infinite'.

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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
Eastleach Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
37913
Title
Mont Saint Michel And Chartres
Author
Adams, Henry
Format/Binding
Hardback
Book Condition
Used
Edition
19th impression.
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published
1930
Keywords
architecture, medieval history, philosophy, religion, christianity

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