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| Medieval Cathedrals and their Meanings |
| Excerpted from an essay entitled 'Medieval Thought and its Architectural Expression'; Dec 1999 |
| Notes and Bibliography |
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1 Simson, Otto von. The Gothic Cathedral. Princeton, 1989. Pg. 8. 2 Simson, Otto von. The Gothic Cathedral. Princeton, 1989. Pg. 24. 3 Quoted from Simson, Otto von. The Gothic Cathedral. Princeton, 1989. Pg. 130. 4 Quoted from Simson, Otto von. The Gothic Cathedral. Princeton, 1989. Pg. 130. 5 James, John. Chartres. Routledge; 1982. Pgs 96-98. 6 Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, excerpts from De Administratione and Scriptum Consecrationis trans. and ed. by Erwin Panofsky (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946). From section XXVII - Of the Cast and Gilded Doors. 7 Abbot Suger, On the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and its Art Treasures, ed. tr. and annotated by Erwin Panofsky, 2 ed. Gerda Panofsky-Soergel (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1946/1979). 8 James, John. Chartres. Routledge; 1982. Pgs 86-7. 9 Hurlimann, M. French Cathedrals. Thames and Hudson, 1951. Pg 29. 10 Hurlimann, M. French Cathedrals. Thames and Hudson, 1951. Pgs 27-8. Aričs, Philippe. Western attitudes toward death : from the Middle Ages to the present / trans. - Baltimore; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974. Augustine, Saint. The City of God. Image/Doubleday, 1958. Boyer, M. Christine.
The City of Collective
Memory. MIT Press,
1994 Coulton, G.G. Medieval Village, Manor, and Monastery. Harper, 1960. Dunne, John S. The City of the Gods - A Study in Myth and Mortality. University of Notre Dame Press, 1978. Halbwachs, Maurice. The Collective Memory. University of Chicago, 1992. Harries, Karsten. The Ethical Function of Architecture. MIT Press, 1997. Heer, Friedrich. The Medieval World. Weidenfeld and Nicolson; 1961. Hurlimann, M. French Cathedrals. Thames and Hudson, 1951. James, John. Chartres. Routledge; 1982. Mumford, Lewis. The City in History - Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. Harvest/HBJ, 1961. Pirenne, Henri. Medieval Cities - Their Origins and the Revival of Trade. Princeton University Press, 1969. Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. MIT, 1984. Rörig, Fritz. The Medieval Town. Batsford, 1967. Saalman, Howard. Medieval Cities. Studio Vista, 1968?. Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man. Norton, 1974. Sennett, Richard. Flesh and Stone. Faber and Faber, 1994. Simson, Otto von. The Gothic Cathedral. Princeton, 1989. Suger, Abbot. De Administratione and Scriptum Consecrationis trans. and ed. by Erwin Panofsky. Princeton University Press, 1946. (Partial excerpts obtained through the Internet). Suger, Abbot. On the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and its Art Treasures, ed. tr. and annotated by Erwin Panofsky, 2 ed. Gerda Panofsky-Soergel. Princeton University Press, 1946/1979. (Partial excerpts obtained through the Internet). Tafuri, Manfredo. Architecture and Utopia - Design and Capitalist Development. MIT Press, 1976. Temko, Allan. Notre-Dame of Paris - The Biography of a Cathedral. Viking, 1952. Wilson, Christopher. The Gothic Cathedral. Thames and Hudson, 1990. |
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