Universe of stone : Chartres Cathedral and the triumph of the medieval mind / Philip Ball
London : Bodley Head, 2008. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and stron. Item #412397
ISBN: 9780224078634
Physical description; 322 pp., 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Contents; 1. The Isle Rises: Chartres in the Kingdom of France -- 2. A Change of Style: The Invention of Gothic -- 3. Heaven on Earth: What is a Cathedral? -- 4. Seek Not to Know High Things: Faith and Reason in the Middle Ages -- 5. Building by Numbers: Science and Geometry at the School of Chartres -- 6. Masters of Works: The Men Who Planned the Cathedrals -- 7. Hammer and Stone: Medieval Masons -- 8. Underneath the Arches: House of Forces -- 9. Holy Radiance: The Metaphysics of Light -- 10. Hard Labour: How the Cathedral Rose -- 11. A New Beginning: The First Renaissance. Subjects; Church architecture Europe History To 1500. Philosophy and religion. Faith and reason.
Price: €18.00