Gothic Europe 1200-1450

Gothic Europe 1200-1450
ISBN-10
1317889525
ISBN-13
9781317889526
Category
History
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2014-06-11
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Derek Pearsall

Description

This uniquely ambitious history offers an account of all aspects of cultural activity and production throughout the world of Latin Christendom 1200-1450. Beginning with a detailed description of the political and economic circumstances that allowed the 'Gothic Moment' to flourish, the body of the book is both a celebration of the Gothic cultural achievement - in cathedral-building, in manuscript illumination, in chivalric love-romance, in stained glass and in many other arts - and an investigation of its social origins and systems of production.

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