The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Cathedral - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Cathedral write by Joann Jovinelly. This book was released on 2006-08-15. The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Cathedral available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes instructions for making a cathedral model, an iconic cross, a chalice, and an incense censer from available materials.
The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Monastery
The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Monastery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Monastery write by Joann Jovinelly. This book was released on 2006-08-15. The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Monastery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes instructions for making a monastery model, an illuminated manuscript, an herb garden, and a plague mask from available materials.
The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Manor
The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Manor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Manor write by Joann Jovinelly. This book was released on 2006-08-15. The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Manor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes instructions for making a miniature manor, windmill, storage chest, and peasant sack from available materials.
The Age of the Cathedrals
The Age of the Cathedrals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of the Cathedrals write by Georges Duby. This book was released on 1983-02-15. The Age of the Cathedrals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recognizing that a work of art is the product of a particular time and place as much as it is the creation of an individual, Duby provides a sweeping survey of the changing mentalities of the Middle Ages as reflected in the art and architecture of the period. "If Age of the Cathedrals has a fault, it is that Professor Duby knows too much, has too many new ideas and takes such a delight in setting them out. . . insights whiz to and fro like meteorites."—John Russell, New York Times Book Review
The Gothic Enterprise
The Gothic Enterprise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gothic Enterprise write by Robert A. Scott. This book was released on 2011-06-28. The Gothic Enterprise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
