Rethinking the School of Chartres (Rethinking the Middle Ages)
Six of the most distinguished and attractive scholars and writers in eleventh- and twelfth-century France are finely portrayed here. All were linked in one way or another to the cathedral of Chartres. With excellent photographs of the twelfth-century sculpted figures on the Royal Portal of Chartres cathedral, Édouard Jeauneau brilliantly links the decoration of the cathedral with their lives and thought.(David Luscombe, Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Professor, University of Sheffield )