Mont Saint Michel And Chartres

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1986-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101221754

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Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments of a past civilization. With daring and inventive conceits, Adams looks at the ordinary people, places, and events in the context of the social conventions and systems of thought and belief of the thirteenth century turning the study of history into a kind of theater. As Raymond Carney discusses in his introduction, Adams' freeedom from the European traditions of study lends an exuberance—and puckish wit—to his writings. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Roger Vercel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Le Mont-Saint-Michel (France)
ISBN : OCLC:1245903907

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Tides of Mont St.-Michel by Roger Vercel Pdf

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734064630

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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368332938

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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams Pdf

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Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780061970078

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Universe of Stone by Philip Ball Pdf

“[A] lively biography of Chartres Cathedral . . . Ball’s account of its construction reveals fascinating details.” —The New Yorker Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—and why was it built at such immense height and with such glorious play of light, in the soaring manner we now call Gothic? In this work, Aventis Prize winner and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Philip Ball makes sense of the visual and emotional power of Chartres and brilliantly explores how its construction—and the creation of other Gothic cathedrals—represented a profound and dramatic shift in the way medieval thinkers perceived their relationship with their world. Beautifully illustrated, filled with astonishing insight, Universe of Stone embeds the magnificent cathedral in the culture of the twelfth century—its schools of philosophy and science, its trades and technologies, its politics and religious debates—enabling us to view this ancient architectural marvel with fresh eyes. “A terrific book . . . a lucid, thoughtful tour de force.” —The Christian Science Monitor “Engrossing . . . a resplendent account of the mysteries of Chartres Cathedral.” —Sunday Times “There is no better introduction to the subject.” —The Wall Street Journal

Author : Adams Henry
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318759765

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0940450127

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Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education by Henry Adams Pdf

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 167024458X

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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams Pdf

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a book written by the American historian and scholar Henry Adams (1838-1918). Adams wrote this book, a meditative reflection on medieval culture, well after his historical masterpiece, The History of the United States of America (1801-1817). Whereas the latter is a serious academic work of history, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is far more whimsical, a playful meditative reflection on medieval culture. It was published privately in 1904, originally intended simply for his nieces; in 1913, it was made more widely available when published with the support of the American Institute of Architects.

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0691003351

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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams Pdf

This first paperback facsimile of the classic 1913 edition includes thirteen photographs and numerous illustrations of the great cathedrals of Northern France. Henry Adams referred to this book as "A Study of Thirteenth-Century Unity," and its expansive scope, together with the author's deep understanding of the period, makes it a classic in art history as well as in American literature. He wrote, "I wanted to show the intensity of the vital energy of a given time, and of course that intensity had to be stated in its two highest terms-religion and art." Henry Adams' record of his journeys through France, searching for images of unity in an age of conflict, is accompanied by observations on literature, politics, religion, and maior church leaders such as Abelard, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Thomas Aquinas.

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Legislators
ISBN : BSB:BSB11664069

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Democracy by Henry Adams Pdf

Author : Rick Walleigh,Wendy Walleigh
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Baby boom generation
ISBN : 9781627871853

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From Silicon Valley to Swaziland by Rick Walleigh,Wendy Walleigh Pdf

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 132272718X

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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams Pdf

Author : James P. Young
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700631827

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Henry Adams by James P. Young Pdf

Henry Adams has been a neglected figure in recent years. The Education of Henry Adams is widely accepted as a classic of American letters, but his other work is little read except by specialists. His brilliant journalism is out of print, while Mont Saint Michel and Chartres and the novels Democracy and Esther receive little attention. Even the monumental History of the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, considered by some to be the greatest history written by any American, seems noticed only by scholars of that period. James P. Young, author of the highly regarded Reconsidering American Liberalism, seeks to revive interest in the thought of Adams by extracting core ideas from his writings concerning both American political development and the course of world history and then showing their relevance to the contemporary longing for a democratic revival. In this revisionist study, Young denies that Adams was a reactionary critic of democracy and instead contends that he was an idealistic, though often disappointed, advocate of representative government. Young focuses on Adams's belief that capitalist industrial development during the Gilded Age had debased American ideals and then turns to a careful study of Adams's famous contrast of the unity of medieval society with the fragmentation of modern technological society. Though fully aware of Adams's concerns about technology, Young rejects the idea that Adams was bitterly opposed to twentieth century developments in that field. He shows that though a liberal democrat with inclinations toward reform, Adams is much too sophisticated to be captured by any simple label.

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118156137

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History of the United States of America During the First Administration of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Adams Pdf

Author : David S. Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982128241

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The Last American Aristocrat by David S. Brown Pdf

A “marvelous…compelling” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of literary icon Henry Adams—one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals, who witnessed and contributed to the United States’ dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation. Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family—after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams—to gain national attention, he is remembered today as an historian, a political commentator, and a memoirist. Now, historian David Brown sheds light on the brilliant yet under-celebrated life of this major American intellectual. Adams not only lived through the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution but he met Abraham Lincoln, bowed before Queen Victoria, and counted Secretary of State John Hay, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and President Theodore Roosevelt as friends and neighbors. His observations of these powerful men and their policies in his private letters provide a penetrating assessment of Gilded Age America on the cusp of the modern era. “Thoroughly researched and gracefully written” (The Wall Street Journal), The Last American Aristocrat details Adams’s relationships with his wife (Marian “Clover” Hooper) and, following her suicide, Elizabeth Cameron, the young wife of a senator and part of the famous Sherman clan from Ohio. Henry Adams’s letters—thousands of them—demonstrate his struggles with depression, familial expectations, and reconciling with his unwanted widower’s existence. Offering a fresh window on nineteenth century US history, as well as a more “modern” and “human” Henry Adams than ever before, The Last American Aristocrat is a “standout portrait of the man and his era” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).