Main entry:

Ball, Philip, 1962-

Title & Author:

Universe of stone : a biography of Chartres Cathedral / Philip Ball.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publication:

New York : Harper, ©2008.

Description:

vii, 322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-312) and index.
The isle rises: Chartres in the kingdom of France -- Change of style: invention of Gothic -- Heaven on earth: what is a cathedral? -- Seek not to know high things: faith and reason in the Middle Ages -- Building by numbers: science and geometry at the school of Chartres -- Masters of works: men who planned the cathedrals -- Hammer and stone: medieval masons -- Underneath the arches: house of forces -- Holy radiance: metaphysics of light -- Hard labour: how the cathedral rose -- New beginning: first renaissance.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Universe of Stone shows that the Gothic cathedrals encode a far-reaching shift in the way medieval thinkers perceived their relationship with their world. For the first time, they began to believe in an orderly, rational world that could be investigated and understood. This change marked the beginning of Western science and also the start of a long and, indeed, unfinished struggle to reconcile faith and reason.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780061154294
0061154296

Subject:

Cathédrale de Chartres.
Cathedrals France Chartres History.
Cathédrales France Chartres Histoire.
Cathedrals
France Chartres
Chartres Kathedrale.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
Biographies
History
Biography.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260059
Call No.: NA5551.C5 B35 2008
Status: Available