Title: Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France,
Authors: Arnold, Hugh; Saint, Lawrence B. 1885-1961; Saint, Lawrence B. 1885-1961
Publisher: A. & C. Black,
Year: 1913
Subjects: Glass painting and staining England.; Glass painting and staining France; Art, Medieval
Abstract: From the Preface: The cathedral verger, conducting his flock of tourists round the building, while giving them plenty of really interesting and valuable information about it (for the verger of today is a different man from his predecessor, and is often very intelligent and well informed), remarks briefly, "The glass is of the thirteenth century"-or fourteenth or fifteenth, as the case may be; the procession gazes carelessly at it, and passes on. Yet from out of that dazzling and glowing labyrinth of coloured jewels a past age is speaking far more articulately, if one stops to unravel the message, than ever in stone or wood, and it is for those who can be induced to take that second look which will be followed by a third and a fourth and many more that I have written this book. It is impossible in a book of this size to give an adequate review of all the important windows even within the limits of place and time which I have set myself.^
Contents: Making of a window -- Beginnings of stained glass -- Style of the first period -- Twelfth century glass -- Early thirteenth century glass in England: Canterbury and Lincoln -- Thirteenth century glass in France: Sens and Chartres -- Other thirteenth century windows: -- Early Grisaille -- Style of the second period -- Early fourteenth century glass in England: Merton College and Exeter -- Fourteenth century glass at York -- Fourteenth century glass in France -- Late fourteenth century glass in England: transitional-Gloucester and the work of the Winchester school -- Style of the third period -- Fifteenth century glass at York -- Fifteenth century glass in France -- Malvern and Fairford -- Index.