2003, ISBN: 30a79dd35cf93c343dc7aff538ca1e52

University, of California Press, Original gilt lettered half cloth, dust jacket, illustrations/maps in b/w, 8vo. 292p. Gut The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonis… Plus…

University, of California Press, Original gilt lettered half cloth, dust jacket, illustrations/maps in b/w, 8vo. 292p. Gut The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical imagination for centuries. In it Robert A. Scott explores why medieval people built Gothic cathedrals, how they built them, what conception of the divine lay behind their creation, and how religious and secular leaders used cathedrals for social and political purposes. As a traveler's companion or a rich source of knowledge for the armchair enthusiast, The Gothic Enterprise helps us understand how ordinary people managed such tremendous feats of physical and creative energy at a time when technology was rudimentary, famine and disease were rampant, the climate was often harsh, and communal life was unstable and incessantly violent. While most books about Gothic cathedrals focus on a particular building or on the cathedrals of a specific region, The Gothic Enterprise considers the idea of the cathedral as a humanly created space. Scott discusses why an impoverished people would commit so many social and personal resources to building something so physically stupendous and what this says about their ideas of the sacred, especially the vital role they ascribed to the divine as a protector against the dangers of everyday life. Scott's narrative offers a wealth of fascinating details concerning daily life during medieval time. The author describes the difficulties master-builders faced in scheduling construction that wouldn't be completed during their own lifetimes, how they managed without adequate numeric systems or paper on which to make detailed drawings, and how climate, natural disasters, wars, variations in the hours of daylight throughout the year, and the celebration of holy days affected the pace and timing of work. Scott also explains such things as the role of relics, the quarrying and transporting of stone, and the incessant conflict cathedral-building projects caused within their communities. Finally, by drawing comparisons between Gothic cathedrals and other monumental building projects, such as Stonehenge, Scott expands our understanding of the human impulses that shape our landscape.Architektur/Bauwesen 2003<

2003, ISBN: 30a79dd35cf93c343dc7aff538ca1e52

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[SC: 8.85], [PU: Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press], CATHEDRALS HISTORY, HISTORY MEDIEVAL PERIOD, GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION CATHEDRALS, RELIGIOUS BUIL… Plus…

[SC: 8.85], [PU: Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press], CATHEDRALS HISTORY, HISTORY MEDIEVAL PERIOD, GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION CATHEDRALS, RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS, ARCHITECTURE EUROPE MEDIEVAL, RELIGION CHRISTIANITY, FIRST EDITION BOOKS, BOOKS WRITTEN BY ROBERT A SCOTT NOISBN, Jacket, First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (fawn spine strip on gold boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9½" x 5¾" (0.9 kg); (xiv) 292pp; Index; Bibliography; Contains: Black & white photographs; Diagrams; Maps; Plans; ISBN: 0520231775 || The book is in stock and ships from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, nearly in Bath, from a long-in-the-tooth bookseller - guaranteed by my sound reputation and the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy of this book means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book#(180052)|| Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Previous owners' gift inscription to the first blank.<

ISBN: 30a79dd35cf93c343dc7aff538ca1e52

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