The Maze and the Warrior
Subtitle: Symbols in Architecture, Theology, and Music
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: June 29, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780674005037
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History of ideas, intellectual history; Music; Religion: general; Religious buildings; Medieval; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Religious - Christian; Christian Theology - History; History / Medieval; History; Renaissance; Christianity; Labyrinths; Religious aspects
First sentence: DURING THE 1990s hundreds of labyrinths suddenly appeared in the United States as a "maze mania" swept the country.
Description: "A tourist visiting the famous cathedral at Chartres might be surprised to discover an enormous labyrinth embedded in the thirteenth-century floor. Why is it there? In this book Craig Wright explores the complex symbolism of the labyrinth in architecture, religious thought, music, and dance from the Middle Ages to the present."--BOOK JACKET.