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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 1986
by Adams, Henry and Carney, Ray
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- Title Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics)
- Author Adams, Henry and Carney, Ray
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 1986-06-03
- Features Glossary
- Bookseller's Inventory # YG-ZPVG-DJFS
- ISBN 9780140390544 / 0140390545
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.1 x 0.85 in (19.76 x 12.95 x 2.16 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Library of Congress subjects Civilization, Medieval, Cathedrale de Chartres
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86173696
- Dewey Decimal Code 944.21
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Summary
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 exuberanceand puckish witto his writings.