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- Condition
- PublishedOn
- 2011-07-12
- ISBN
- 9780520269996
- EAN
- 9780520269996
- Book Title
- Gothic Enterprise : a Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Architecture, Religion, History
- Topic
- Buildings / Religious, History / Medieval, Christianity / General, Europe / Medieval, History / General
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical imagination for centuries. In it Robert A. Scott explores why medieval people built Gothic cathedrals, how they built them, what conception of the divine lay behind their creation, and how religious and secular leaders used cathedrals for social and political purposes. As a traveler's companion or a rich source of knowledge for the armchair enthusiast, The Gothic Enterprise helps us understand how ordinary people managed such tremendous feats of physical and creative energy at a time when technology was rudimentary, famine and disease were rampant, the climate was often harsh, and communal life was unstable and incessantly violent. While most books about Gothic cathedrals focus on a particular building or on the cathedrals of a specific region, The Gothic Enterprise considers the idea of the cathedral as a humanly created space. Scott discusses why an impoverished people would commit so many social and personal resources to building something so physically stupendous and what this says about their ideas of the sacred, especially the vital role they ascribed to the divine as a protector against the dangers of everyday life. Scott's narrative offers a wealth of fascinating details concerning daily life during medieval times. The author describes the difficulties master-builders faced in scheduling construction that wouldn't be completed during their own lifetimes, how they managed without adequate numeric systems or paper on which to make detailed drawings, and how climate, natural disasters, wars, variations in the hours of daylight throughout the year, and the celebration of holy days affected the pace and timing of work. Scott also explains such things as the role of relics, the quarrying and transporting of stone, and the incessant conflict cathedral-building projects caused within their communities. Finally, by drawing comparisons between Gothic cathedrals and other monumental building projects, such as Stonehenge, Scott expands our understanding of the human impulses that shape our landscape.
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University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520269993
ISBN-13
9780520269996
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99523022
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gothic Enterprise : a Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Buildings / Religious, History / Medieval, Christianity / General, Europe / Medieval, History / General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Architecture, Religion, History
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Na440.S425 2011
Edition Number
2
Table of Content
Preface to the 2011 Edition Acknowledgments Introduction: A Personal Journey Part I: A Grand Undertaking 1 What Is the Gothic Enterprise? 2 How Were the Cathedrals Built? Part II: History 3 Kings, Feudal Lords, and Great Monasteries 4 The Age of Cathedral-Building 5 The Initial Vision 6 "The Cathedral Crusade" Part III: The Gothic Look 7 What Is the Gothic Look? 8 An Image of Heaven 9 A Pragmatic View of Cathedral-Building Part IV: The Religious Experience 10 Sacred Force and Sacred Space 11 Imagining the Cathedral 12 Honoring the Dead Part V: The Gothic Community 13 Medieval Living Conditions 14 The Spiritual Brokers--Priests and Monarchs 15 Cathedrals and Community Conclusion: Learning from Stonehenge Appendix: Terminology Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations and Credits Index
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-007856
Dewey Decimal
726.6/09/02
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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