Title: Architecture and society in Normandy 1120 to 1270 /
Authors: Grant, Lindy.
Date: 2005
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Physical description: vii, 274 p. : ill., geneal. tables, maps, plans ; 29 p.
Language: English
LC class: N
Abstract: "This wide-ranging book explores the architecture - principally ecclesiastical - of Normandy from 1120 to 1270, a period of profound social, cultural and political change. In 1204, control of the Duchy of Normandy passed from the hands of the Anglo-Norman/Angevin descendants of William the Conqueror to the Capetian kingdom of France. The book examines the enormous cultural impact of this political change and places the architecture of the time in the context of the Normans' complicated sense of their own identity. It is the first book to consider the inception and development of Gothic architecture in Normandy and the first to establish a reliable chronology of the buildings."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction : Normandy and Gothic architecture -- Normandy : polity, place, and people -- The Norman Church -- Patronage and piety -- The new architecture -- The emergence of Gothic architecture in Normandy circa 1120-circa 1160 -- The 1160s and 1170s : French influence and the patronage of the great churchmen -- Architecture in the last decades of ducal Normandy, circa 1180-1204 -- Rouen Cathedral and architecture in upper Normandy in the earlier thirteenth century -- The South-West -- The architecture of central lower Normandy in the thirteenth century -- The reception of rayonnant in Normandy.