Title: The medieval world.
Authors: Kidson, Peter
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 1967
Subjects: Art, Medieval.; Architecture, Medieval.
Abstract: Medieval "architecture, sculpture, painting, manuscripts, metalwork, glass."
Contents: Introduction -- The idea of a "middle age" -- Pagan and Christian -- Pre-Romanesque art -- Anglo-Saxon architecture -- Anglo-Saxon manuscript illumination -- Charlemagne -- Carolingian art -- Romanesque art -- Romanesque architecture -- Vaults and arches -- Links with the East -- Colour in building -- Romanesque sculpture -- Drawing and painting -- Gothic art -- Thick-wall and thin-wall churches -- Gothic versus classical -- Church versus state -- Chartres -- Bourges and Le Mans -- Reims -- The Sainte Chapelle -- Gothic in England -- Gothic in Germany -- Gothic in southern Europe -- Gothic sculpture -- Bamberg -- Strasbourg -- Naumburg -- The Pisano family -- Courtly elegance in Paris -- Gothic painting -- Giotto -- Conclusion.