Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral

Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral
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Publisher : World Wisdom Books
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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.


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