Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics)

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics)

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments of a past civilization. With daring and inventive conceits, Adams looks at the ordinary people, places, and events in the context of the social conventions and systems of thought and belief of the thirteenth century turning the study of history into a kind of theater.
As Raymond Carney discusses in his introduction, Adams' freeedom from the European traditions of study lends an exuberanceâ‚¬"and puckish witâ‚¬"to his writings.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Â
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations, plan, bibliog , index
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1986-06-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140390544

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations, plan, bibliog , index
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1986-06-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780140390544

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics)

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