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The Virgin of Chartres

Margot Elsbeth Fassler

Author : Margot Elsbeth Fassler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300110883

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The Virgin of Chartres by Margot Elsbeth Fassler Pdf

Medieval Christians knew the past primarily through what they saw and heard. History was reenacted every year in ritual observances particular to each place and region and rooted in the legends of local saints.This richly illustrated book explores the layers of history found in the cult of the Virgin of Chartres as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Focusing on the major relic of Chartres Cathedral, the Virgin’s gown, and the Feast of Mary's Nativity, Margot Fassler employs a wide range of historical evidence including local histories, letters, obituaries, chants, liturgical sources, and reports of miracles, leading to a detailed reading of the cathedral's west façade. This interdisciplinary volume will prove invaluable to historians who work in religion, politics, music, and art but will also serve as a guidebook for all interested in the history of Chartres Cathedral.

Cathedral of the Black Madonna

Jean Markale

Author : Jean Markale
Publisher : Inner Traditions
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1594770204

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Cathedral of the Black Madonna by Jean Markale Pdf

Explores the connection between ancient druidic worship of a virgin at Chartres and the veneration of the Black Madonna • Examines the Virgin Mary’s origins in the pagan worship of the Mother Goddess • Identifies Mary with the dominant solar goddess of matriarchal societies The great cathedral of Chartres is renowned the world over as a masterpiece of High Gothic architecture and for its remarkable stained glass, considered alchemical glass, and its mystical labyrinth. But the sacred foundations of this sanctuary go back to a time long before Christianity when this site was a clearing where druids worshiped a Virgo Paritura: a virgin about to give birth. This ancient meeting place, where all the druids in Gaul gathered once a year, now houses the magnificent Chartres cathedral dedicated both to the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and to one of the most venerated Black Madonnas in Europe: Our Lady of the Pillar. Coincidence? Hardly, says Jean Markale, whose exhaustive examination of the site traces Chartres’ roots back to prehistoric times and the appeal of the Black Madonna back to the ancient widespread worship of Mother Goddesses such as Cybele and Isis. Markale contends that the mother and child depicted by the Black Madonna are descended from the image worshipped by the druids of the Virgin forever giving birth. This image is not merely a representation of maternal love--albeit of a spiritual nature. It is a theological notion of great refinement: the Virgin gives birth ceaselessly to a world, a God, and a humanity in perpetual becoming.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity

John H. Lienhard

Author : John H. Lienhard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0195167317

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The Engines of Our Ingenuity by John H. Lienhard Pdf

This book explores the nature of creativity in engineering and technology, and how it relates to creativity in art or science. Lienhard has for ten years done a twice-weekly radio show, carried on about 35 NPR stations, consisting of 3-minute essays on technology. He uses the substance of selected segments of his radio program to create a continuous narrative presenting his insights on technological creativity. This book has the same title as his radio program, to further draw the attention of his one million listeners.

Visions of Mary

Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion

Author : Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion
Publisher : Mount Tabor Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1612618944

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Visions of Mary by Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion Pdf

Through image and word, author and photographer Jill Geoffrion offers a unique visual and meditative journey, unfolding the story of Mary at Chartres on the pages of this book.

Letters to a niece and prayer to the Virgin of Chartres

Henry Adams

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:631668460

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Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres

Henry Adams

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290216959

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Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres by Henry Adams Pdf

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.

Rethinking the School of Chartres

Édouard Jeauneau

Author : Édouard Jeauneau
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442600072

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Rethinking the School of Chartres by Édouard Jeauneau Pdf

Deftly translated by Claude Paul Desmarais, Rethinking the School of Chartres provides a narrative that is critical, passionate, and witty.

Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral

Titus Burckhardt

Author : Titus Burckhardt
Publisher : World Wisdom Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215304333

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Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral by Titus Burckhardt Pdf

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.

Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres (Classic Reprint)

Henry Adams

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0666117314

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Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres (Classic Reprint) by Henry Adams Pdf

Excerpt from Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres The notes toward the end are merely such as are written to people living in the same town, or near by, and are intended for those who can see, between the lines, that Henry Adams was in the world but not wholly of it, and that what he has so beautifully ex pressed in literary form in the Chartres, and in the Prayer to the Virgin, was not only literature to him, but was also a part of his unspoken life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

Henry Adams

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734064630

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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams Pdf

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The Cleaner of Chartres

Salley Vickers

Author : Salley Vickers
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101599631

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The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers Pdf

“If you enjoy the work of Marilynne Robinson, Penelope Fitzgerald, James Salter…you should be reading Vickers.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World There is something very special about Agnès Morel. A quiet presence in the small French town of Chartres, she can usually be found cleaning the famed medieval cathedral or doing odd jobs for the townspeople. No one knows where she came from or why. Not diffident Abbé Paul, nor lonely Professor Jones, nor even Alain Fleury, whose attention she catches with her tawny eyes. She has transformed all their lives in her own subtle way, yet no one suspects the dark secret Agnès is hiding. Then an accidental encounter dredges up the specter of her past, and the nasty meddling of town gossips forces Agnès to confront her tragic history and the violent act that haunts it.

The Story of Chartres

Cecil Headlam

Author : Cecil Headlam
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752396515

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Chartres Cathedral

Malcolm B. Miller

Author : Malcolm B. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015053409341

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Chartres Cathedral by Malcolm B. Miller Pdf

The author is the world's foremost authority on Chartres, and is in residence there most of the year. He shows us the history of the cathedral and teaches us how to "read" the world-famous stained glass and sculpture, explaining the references to Scripture and the teachings of the Church. Chartres alone, of all the great medieval churches, has survived into the 20th century almost intact, not only architecturally but with its vast inconographic program in 12th-and 13th-century stained glass and sculpture. Medieval art was intended not just to embellish the church but to instruct the people, for there was no printing. Scholars could therefore teach their students, the clergy preach sermons and parents read the lives of the saints to their children using the 'texts' in stained glass and sculpture. The sister churches of Chartres have been sadly vandalized to varying degrees by Reform, revolution, war or natural disaster. Here in Chartres the 'text' is virtually complete. A concise glossary of symbolic images has been included as well as a complete plan of all the windows in the cathedral, and an index.