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Author Gajewski, Alexandra

Title Paris The Powers That Shaped the Medieval City
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (261 p.)
Series The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions Series
The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions Series
Contents 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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Art, Medieval -- France -- Paris -- Congresses
Architecture, Medieval -- France -- Paris -- Congresses
Art and society -- France -- Paris -- History -- Congresses
Architecture and society -- France -- Paris -- History -- Congresses
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Medieval.
Art and society.
Art, Medieval.
Civilization.
SUBJECT Paris (France) -- Civilization -- Congresses
Subject France -- Paris.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author McNeill, John
ISBN 9781000904604
1000904601