The Age of the Cathedrals
Subtitle: Art and Society, 980-1420
Contributors: Eleanor Levieux (Translator); Barbara Thompson (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 15, 1983
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780226167701
Subjects: History of art: c 500 CE to c 1400; Religious buildings; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; History - General History; History: American; USA; Europe - General; General; History / Europe / General; Art and society; Art, Medieval; Civilization, Medieval
First sentence: A mere handful of men-unending emptiness stretching so far west, north, and east that it covers everything-fallow land, fens and wandering rivers, heaths, woods and pastureland, every conceivable type of erstwhile forest leaving behind it brush fires and the woodburners' furtive sowing-clearings here and there, wrested from the forest but still only half-tamed;