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1st Edition

Paris The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City

Edited By Alexandra Gajewski, John McNeill Copyright 2023
260 Pages 104 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 104 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 104 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces – royal, monastic and secular – that shaped the art, architecture and topography of Paris between c . 1100 and c . 1500, a period in which Paris became one of the foremost metropolises in the West. The individual contributions, written by an international group of scholars, cover the subject from many different... Read more

List of Contributors

Preface

  1. Notre-Dame in Paris before the Gothic Period

    2. DANY SANDRON

  2. Abbot Suger’s Paris

    3. LINDY GRANT

  3. The Power of the Saints: Architecture and Liturgy in Abbot Suger’s Shrine-Choir at Saint-Denis in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

    4. ALEXANDRA GAJEWSKI

  4. The King’s City: The Disciplinary ‘Sense-scape’ of Paris in the Thirteenth Century

    5. WILLIAM CHESTER JORDAN

  5. The Great Thirteenth-Century Chapels of Paris

    6. MEREDITH COHEN

  6. City of light: Picturing the translation of the Crown of Thorns to Paris in the Gothic glass of the Sainte-Chapelle

    7. EMILY GUERRY

  7. Jean Pucelle, Mahiet, and the Fauvel Master: Relationships between Manuscript Illuminators in Fourteenth-Century Paris

    8. ANNA RUSSAKOFF

  8. Building Paris on its Bridges

    9. JANA GAJDOŠOVÁ

  9. Not so vast a Solitude: Cistercians in Medieval Paris

    10. TERRYL KINDER

  10. Images of Paris in the late Middle Ages: The Great Monuments

RAPHAËLE SKUPIEN

Index

Biography

Alexandra Gajewski is Reviews Editor of The Burlington Magazine and an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, London. Her research focuses on Gothic architecture, especially in relation to the cult of relics, liturgy and questions of function. She has published on Cistercian architecture in medieval Europe, religious architecture in Burgundy, the historiography of regional architecture as well as medieval women as patrons, embroidery and the Castle of Love in ivory.

John McNeill is Secretary of the British Archaeological Association, wherein he was instrumental in establishing the Association’s International Romanesque conference series. He has published widely on Romanesque architecture and architectural sculpture in England, France and Italy.

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