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The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages (Paperback): Alain Erlande-Brandenburg, Rosemary Stonehewer The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages (Paperback)
Alain Erlande-Brandenburg, Rosemary Stonehewer
R202 Discovery Miles 2 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Even now, the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages overwhelm us by their imagination, technical daring and sheer scale. How could such structures be built when cities had only a few thousand inhabitants and only the most primitive machinery was available? Who initiated them? Who designed them? Who paid for them? Through the documentary records that remain (many of which are quoted at length), and drawings and details from contemporary art, we are led into the extraordinary world of the medieval master mason.

The Cathedral - The Social and Architectural Dynamics of Construction (Paperback): Alain Erlande-Brandenburg The Cathedral - The Social and Architectural Dynamics of Construction (Paperback)
Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
R1,343 Discovery Miles 13 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The popular image of the traditional western city has usually been dominated by the cathedral, whose sheer size seemed to create an isolated physical and spiritual focal point. In this iconoclastic study, the author sets out to reverse some of the romantic myths which have accrued about the medieval cathedral, in particular that the cathedral was a separate entity, self-sufficient, sublime and apart. Here the cathedral is shown to be a dynamic, evolving and unpredictable force in the development of the medieval city. Taking France as the main focus, but including material on England, Germany, Italy, Spain and Bohemia, the author describes the growth of diocesan authority and the consequent experiments in the layout of cathedral plans. Full use is made of recent archaeological research to show how architectural, social, financial and religious considerations combined to form a structure that was above all a practical, functioning concern, a 'city within a city'.

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