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Member dossier · PDF

Stone into Light — Member Dossier

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Our free article on Chartres Cathedral follows the rebuilding of a great Gothic church between 1194 and 1220, when the style was already a mature, continent-wide convention. This dossier goes back half a century earlier, to the single building campaign where historians most often locate the moment the combination of features later called "Gothic" was first assembled in one place: the abbey church of Saint-Denis, just north of Paris, rebuilt in two stages under Abbot Suger between about 1135 and 1144.

What you get

  • 6 chapters, about 11500 words
  • A chapter on what historians still argue about
  • A chronology
  • A reading list with the sources named
  • PDF in A4 and US Letter

For: Readers who want one episode argued through from the evidence, with the disagreements between historians left visible.

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