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Notre-Dame of Amiens : Life of the Gothic Cathedral / Stephen Murray.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: ColumbianaPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource : 200 b&w and 32 color illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231551472
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.944/2625 23
LOC classification:
  • NA5551.A45
  • NA5551.A45 M873 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1 Visiting the Cathedral -- 2 The Portals: Unscrambling the Plot -- 3 Clergy, Artisans, and Laypeople: Makers and Users -- 4 Telling the Story of the Great Enterprise, I, 1220–c. 1300: Incomplete Completion -- 5 Telling the Story of the Great Enterprise, II, c. 1300–1530: Continuing Work, Immediate Danger, Triumphant End -- 6 Liturgical Performance: Angels in the Architecture -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. Its construction began in 1220, and artistic production in the Gothic mode lasted well into the sixteenth century. In this magisterial chronicle, Stephen Murray invites readers to see the cathedral as more than just a thing of the past: it is a living document of medieval Christian society that endures in our own time.Murray tells the cathedral’s story from the overlapping perspectives of the social groups connected to it, exploring the ways that the layfolk who visit the cathedral occasionally, the clergy who use it daily, and the artisans who created it have interacted with the building over the centuries. He considers the cycles of human activity around the cathedral and shows how groups of makers and users have been inextricably intertwined in collaboration and, occasionally, conflict. The book travels around and through the spaces of the cathedral, allowing us to re-create similar passages by our medieval predecessors. Murray reveals the many worlds of the cathedral and brings them together in the architectural triumph of its central space. A beautifully illustrated account of a grand and historically and religiously important building from a variety of perspectives and in a variety of time periods, this book offers readers a memorable tour of Notre-Dame of Amiens that celebrates the cathedral’s eight hundredth anniversary in 2020.Notre-Dame of Amiens is enhanced by high-resolution images, liturgical music, and animations embedded in an innovative website.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1 Visiting the Cathedral -- 2 The Portals: Unscrambling the Plot -- 3 Clergy, Artisans, and Laypeople: Makers and Users -- 4 Telling the Story of the Great Enterprise, I, 1220–c. 1300: Incomplete Completion -- 5 Telling the Story of the Great Enterprise, II, c. 1300–1530: Continuing Work, Immediate Danger, Triumphant End -- 6 Liturgical Performance: Angels in the Architecture -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. Its construction began in 1220, and artistic production in the Gothic mode lasted well into the sixteenth century. In this magisterial chronicle, Stephen Murray invites readers to see the cathedral as more than just a thing of the past: it is a living document of medieval Christian society that endures in our own time.Murray tells the cathedral’s story from the overlapping perspectives of the social groups connected to it, exploring the ways that the layfolk who visit the cathedral occasionally, the clergy who use it daily, and the artisans who created it have interacted with the building over the centuries. He considers the cycles of human activity around the cathedral and shows how groups of makers and users have been inextricably intertwined in collaboration and, occasionally, conflict. The book travels around and through the spaces of the cathedral, allowing us to re-create similar passages by our medieval predecessors. Murray reveals the many worlds of the cathedral and brings them together in the architectural triumph of its central space. A beautifully illustrated account of a grand and historically and religiously important building from a variety of perspectives and in a variety of time periods, this book offers readers a memorable tour of Notre-Dame of Amiens that celebrates the cathedral’s eight hundredth anniversary in 2020.Notre-Dame of Amiens is enhanced by high-resolution images, liturgical music, and animations embedded in an innovative website.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)