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The Virgin of Chartres

Author : Margot Elsbeth Fassler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030011088X
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The Virgin of Chartres by : Margot Elsbeth Fassler

Download or read book The Virgin of Chartres written by Margot Elsbeth Fassler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Christians knew the past primarily through what they saw and heard. History was reenacted every year in ritual observances particular to each place and region and rooted in the legends of local saints.This richly illustrated book explores the layers of history found in the cult of the Virgin of Chartres as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Focusing on the major relic of Chartres Cathedral, the Virgin’s gown, and the Feast of Mary's Nativity, Margot Fassler employs a wide range of historical evidence including local histories, letters, obituaries, chants, liturgical sources, and reports of miracles, leading to a detailed reading of the cathedral's west façade. This interdisciplinary volume will prove invaluable to historians who work in religion, politics, music, and art but will also serve as a guidebook for all interested in the history of Chartres Cathedral.

Cathedral of the Black Madonna

Author : Jean Markale
Publisher : Inner Traditions
ISBN 13 : 9781594770203
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Cathedral of the Black Madonna written by Jean Markale and published by Inner Traditions. This book was released on 2004-10-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the connection between ancient druidic worship of a virgin at Chartres and the veneration of the Black Madonna • Examines the Virgin Mary’s origins in the pagan worship of the Mother Goddess • Identifies Mary with the dominant solar goddess of matriarchal societies The great cathedral of Chartres is renowned the world over as a masterpiece of High Gothic architecture and for its remarkable stained glass, considered alchemical glass, and its mystical labyrinth. But the sacred foundations of this sanctuary go back to a time long before Christianity when this site was a clearing where druids worshiped a Virgo Paritura: a virgin about to give birth. This ancient meeting place, where all the druids in Gaul gathered once a year, now houses the magnificent Chartres cathedral dedicated both to the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and to one of the most venerated Black Madonnas in Europe: Our Lady of the Pillar. Coincidence? Hardly, says Jean Markale, whose exhaustive examination of the site traces Chartres’ roots back to prehistoric times and the appeal of the Black Madonna back to the ancient widespread worship of Mother Goddesses such as Cybele and Isis. Markale contends that the mother and child depicted by the Black Madonna are descended from the image worshipped by the druids of the Virgin forever giving birth. This image is not merely a representation of maternal love--albeit of a spiritual nature. It is a theological notion of great refinement: the Virgin gives birth ceaselessly to a world, a God, and a humanity in perpetual becoming.

Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral

Author : Titus Burckhardt
Publisher : World Wisdom Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral written by Titus Burckhardt and published by World Wisdom Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and revised edition of Titus Burckhardt's masterpiece, Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral, is a richly colored window onto the lofty intellectual and spiritual climate that conceived the marvel that is Gothic architecture. Featuring a new appendix with three sections, and a new Foreword by John James, a world authority on Chartres, as well as 25 new illustrations, it cannot fail to inspire the reader to become a pilgrim to Chartres.

The Cleaner of Chartres

Author : Salley Vickers
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101599634
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Cleaner of Chartres written by Salley Vickers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you enjoy the work of Marilynne Robinson, Penelope Fitzgerald, James Salter…you should be reading Vickers.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World There is something very special about Agnès Morel. A quiet presence in the small French town of Chartres, she can usually be found cleaning the famed medieval cathedral or doing odd jobs for the townspeople. No one knows where she came from or why. Not diffident Abbé Paul, nor lonely Professor Jones, nor even Alain Fleury, whose attention she catches with her tawny eyes. She has transformed all their lives in her own subtle way, yet no one suspects the dark secret Agnès is hiding. Then an accidental encounter dredges up the specter of her past, and the nasty meddling of town gossips forces Agnès to confront her tragic history and the violent act that haunts it.

Visions of Mary

Author : Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion
Publisher : Mount Tabor Books
ISBN 13 : 9781612618944
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Mary written by Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion and published by Mount Tabor Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through image and word, author and photographer Jill Geoffrion offers a unique visual and meditative journey, unfolding the story of Mary at Chartres on the pages of this book.

Rethinking the School of Chartres

Author : Édouard Jeauneau
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442600071
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Rethinking the School of Chartres by : Édouard Jeauneau

Download or read book Rethinking the School of Chartres written by Édouard Jeauneau and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deftly translated by Claude Paul Desmarais, Rethinking the School of Chartres provides a narrative that is critical, passionate, and witty.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity

Author : John H. Lienhard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195167313
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book The Engines of Our Ingenuity written by John H. Lienhard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the nature of creativity in engineering and technology, and how it relates to creativity in art or science. Lienhard has for ten years done a twice-weekly radio show, carried on about 35 NPR stations, consisting of 3-minute essays on technology. He uses the substance of selected segments of his radio program to create a continuous narrative presenting his insights on technological creativity. This book has the same title as his radio program, to further draw the attention of his one million listeners.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters to a Niece

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Letters to a Niece written by Henry Adams and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company. This book was released on 1920 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters to a niece and prayer to the Virgin of Chartres

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Letters to a niece and prayer to the Virgin of Chartres written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290216951
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres written by Henry Adams and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Chartres Cathedral

Author : Malcolm B. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chartres Cathedral written by Malcolm B. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is the world's foremost authority on Chartres, and is in residence there most of the year. He shows us the history of the cathedral and teaches us how to "read" the world-famous stained glass and sculpture, explaining the references to Scripture and the teachings of the Church. Chartres alone, of all the great medieval churches, has survived into the 20th century almost intact, not only architecturally but with its vast inconographic program in 12th-and 13th-century stained glass and sculpture. Medieval art was intended not just to embellish the church but to instruct the people, for there was no printing. Scholars could therefore teach their students, the clergy preach sermons and parents read the lives of the saints to their children using the 'texts' in stained glass and sculpture. The sister churches of Chartres have been sadly vandalized to varying degrees by Reform, revolution, war or natural disaster. Here in Chartres the 'text' is virtually complete. A concise glossary of symbolic images has been included as well as a complete plan of all the windows in the cathedral, and an index.

The Story of Chartres

Author : Cecil Headlam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Chartres written by Cecil Headlam and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sculptors of the West Portals of Chartres Cathedral

Author : Whitney S. Stoddard
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393300437
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Sculptors of the West Portals of Chartres Cathedral written by Whitney S. Stoddard and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1987 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents evidence that the portals were carved by four master sculptors and five assistants in the middle 1140s

The Virgin of Chartres

Author : Joseph F. Byrnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Virgin of Chartres written by Joseph F. Byrnes and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The City of Chartres

Author : Henri Jean Louis Joseph Massé
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The City of Chartres written by Henri Jean Louis Joseph Massé and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres (Classic Reprint)

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331003670
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres The letters in this volume, begun from the South Seas, to a niece of fifteen, are offered in all humility, and in full realization that they probably have little literary value compared to Henry Adams's letters to con temporaries, and no value or interest where there is personal praise, except to show his wealth of heart that had to spend itself, even upon the most unworthy. There is no attempt to offer a complete series of letters, but rather some are chosen to accompany or illustrate parts of the article "A Niece's Memories," - used here as an introductory sketch, - which in turn must supplement the letters. The notes toward the end are merely such as are written to people living in the same town, or near by, and are intended for those who can see, between the lines, that Henry Adams was in the world but not wholly of it, and that what he has so beautifully ex pressed in literary form in the "Chartres," and in the "Prayer to the Virgin," was not only literature to him, but was also a part of his unspoken life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.