Description
Book SynopsisParis: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces royal, monastic and secular that shaped the art, architecture and topography of Paris between c. 1100 and c. 1500, a period in which Paris became one of the foremost metropolises in the West.
The individual contributions, written by an international group of scholars, cover the subject from many different angles. They encompass wide-ranging case studies that address architecture, manuscript illumination and stained glass, as well as questions of liturgy, religion and social life. Topics include the early medieval churches that preceded the current cathedral church of Notre-Dame and cultural production in the Paris area in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, as well as Paris's chapels and bridges. There is new evidence for the source of the c. 1240 design for a celebrated window in the Sainte-Chapelle, an evaluation of the liturgical arrangements in the new shrine-ch
Table of Contents
1. Notre-Dame in Paris before the Gothic Period, 2. Abbot Suger’s Paris, 3. The Power of the Saints: Architecture and Liturgy in Abbot Suger’s Shrine-Choir at Saint-Denis in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, 4. The King’s City: The Disciplinary ‘Sense-scape’ of Paris in the Thirteenth Century, 5. The Great Thirteenth-Century Chapels of Paris, 6. City of light: Picturing the translation of the Crownof Thorns to Paris in the Gothic glass of the Sainte-Chapelle, 7. Jean Pucelle, Mahiet, and the Fauvel Master: Relationships between Manuscript Illuminators in Fourteenth-Century Paris, 8. Building Paris on its Bridges, 9. Not so vast a Solitude: Cistercians in Medieval Paris, 10. Images of Paris in the late Middle Ages: The Great Monuments.
