Gothic Europe 1200-1450 (Arts Culture and Society in the Western World)

by Derek Pearsall (Author), Derek Pearsall (Author), Derek Pearsall (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $94.39

  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.