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Notre-Dame-de-Chartres, probably the most impressive and exciting building of the Middle Ages, is one of the few to have been preserved almost intact. This cathedral, which appeals so deeply to scholarship and to fantasy, to the researcher and the devout, seems to pose as many riddles as the Sphinx. Was there a mystical genius behind the plan? What was the complex blend of numbers, geometry and symbolism used in its creation? John James's detailed work on the cathedral, the most exacting study made on any medieval monument, has revealed the answers to many of these tantalising questions. We have no names for the architects of Chartres, and yet it is not the work of anonymous men. By examining every stage of the construction, the author has isolated all the master masons, and shows that each of the masters had his own measure, his own technique of geometry and his preferred style of carving. And yet the mystery remains, for throughout the many building campaigns, a wonderful artistic unity was maintained. Although no documents or legends survive from which we can know the masters, John James brings them alive. His detailed reading of the stones of the cathedral reveals an enormous amount about these men; how they solved problems of engineering and design, and which other famous monuments they helped to create. The masters devised structures, skeletal and open, that are totally modern, with an engineering skill that was not to be repeated until the nineteenth century. They set new standards that were so successful that their influence can be felt in every country where Gothic is to be found.

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Medieval Christians knew the past primarily through what they saw and heard. History was reenacted every year in ritual observances particular to each place and region and rooted in the legends of local saints. This richly illustrated book explores the layers of history found in the cult of the Virgin of Chartres as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Focusing on the major relic of Chartres Cathedral, the Virgin's gown, and the Feast of Mary's Nativity, Margot Fassler employs a wide range of historical evidence including local histories, letters, obituaries, chants, liturgical sources, and reports of miracles, leading to a detailed reading of the cathedral's west façade. This interdisciplinary volume will prove invaluable to historians who work in religion, politics, music, and art but will also serve as a guidebook for all interested in the history of Chartres Cathedral.

Church history --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- History --- Mary, --- ʻAdhrāʼ --- Arogyamata --- Ārōkkiyamāta --- Birhen ng mga Dukha --- Blessed Lady --- Blessed Mother --- Blessed Virgin Mary, --- Hagnē Theotokos --- Madonna, The --- Mama Mary --- Mare de Déu --- Maria, --- Mariam Astuatsatsin --- Marie, --- Marie Théotokos --- Marii︠a︡, --- Maryam, --- Maryja, --- Meryem Ana --- Miryam, --- Mother of God --- Muíre, --- Nossa Senhora --- Our Lady --- Our Lady of Good Health --- Our Lady of Sorrows --- Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament --- Qiddīsah Maryam --- Theotokos --- Vierge Marie, --- Virgen María --- Virgin Mary, --- Virgin of the Poor --- Ynang Maria --- مريم --- مريم العذراء --- 성모마리아 --- Our Lady of Emmitsburg --- Majka Isusova --- Shrines --- Chartres (France) --- Chartres, France --- Church history. --- Mariam Astuatsatsin, --- Meryem Ana, --- Virgen María, --- Ynang Maria, --- France --- HISTORY / Medieval.