Universe of stone: Chartres Cathedral and the triumph of the medieval mind
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The Bodley Head
2008
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-312) and index |
| Physical Description: | 322 p., [16] p. of plates ill. (some col.), maps, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780224078634 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgements
γϋ
Introduction
1
1
The Isle Rises
Chartres
in the Kingdom of France
8
2
A Change of Style
The Invention of Gothic
23
3
Heaven on Earth
What is a Cathedral?
52
4
Seek Not to Know High Things
Faith and Reason in the Middle Ages
69
5
Building by Numbers
Science and Geometry at the School of
Chartres
100
6
Masters of Works
The Men Who Planned the Cathedrah
136
7
Hammer and Stone
Medieval Masons
170
8
Underneath the Arches
House of Forces
193
9
Holy Radiance
The Metaphysics of Light
233
10
Hard Labour
How the Cathedral Rose
256
11
A New Beginning
The First Renaissance
281
Notes
292
Bibliography
306
Index
313
In the twelfth century, Christians in Europe began
to build a completely new kind of church
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not the
squat, gloomy buildings we now call Romanesque,
but soaring, spacious monuments flooded with
light from immense windows. These were the first
Gothic churches, the crowning example of which was
the cathedral of
Chartres, an
unparalleled feat of
craftsmanship in which all the elements of the new
Since the church was the hub of society, representing
nothing less than a vision of Heaven on earth, this
shift in architectural style was not undertaken lightly:
it marked a profound change in the social, intellectual
and theological climate of Western Christendom. It
also posed enormous challenges to the master builders
and masons whose task it was to make these vast
masses of stone seem airy and weightless.
In Universe of
S
lone, Philip Ball explains the genesis
and development of the Gothic style. He argues that it
signified a new way of looking at God and the universe.
Informed by the rediscovery of texts from the ancient
world, philosophers began to question old certainties
about God s power and plan for mankind. This was the
beginning of the argument between faith and reason
-
an argument which remains unresolved to this day
-
and of a scientific view of the world that threatened to
dispense with God altogether.
Universe of Stone establishes
Chartres
Cathedral s
iconic role in Europe s history: a revolution in thought
embodied in stone and glass; a philosophy made
concrete through the cooperation of theologians,
craftsmen and engineers; and a bridge between the
ancient and modern worlds.
PHILIP BALL is a freelance writer and a
consultant editor lor the world s leading science
journal, Nature. He is a regular commentator on
the interactions between science, art, history
and culture. His previous books include Bright
Earth: The Invention of Colour, H20: A Biography of
Water, The Devil s Doctor: Paracelsus and
lhe
World
of Renaissance
Magic
and Science, and Critical Mass:
How One Thing Leads To Another, which won the
2005
Aventis Prize for Science Books. He lives in
London with
h
is wife and daughter.
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