Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Abstracts -- Notre-Dame in Paris Before the Gothic Period -- Abbot Suger's Paris -- The Powers of the Saints: Architecture and Liturgy in Abbot Suger's Shrine-Choir at Saint-Denis in the 12th and 13th Centuries -- The King's City: The Disciplinary 'Sense-scape' of Paris in the 13th Century -- The Great 13th-Century Chapels of Paris -- City of Light: Picturing the Translation of the Crown of Thorns to Paris in the Gothic Glass of the Sainte-Chapelle
Jean Pucelle, Mahiet and the Fauvel Master: Relationships Between Manuscript Illuminators in 14th-Century Paris -- Building Paris on Its Bridges -- Not So Vast a Solitude: Cistercians in Medieval Paris -- Images of Paris in the Late Middle Ages: The Great Monuments -- Index
Summary
Paris: 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