The Virgin Of Chartres

Author : Margot Elsbeth Fassler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030011088X
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virgin of Chartres written by Margot Elsbeth Fassler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jean Markale
Publisher : Inner Traditions
ISBN 13 : 9781594770203
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cathedral of the Black Madonna written by Jean Markale and published by Inner Traditions. This book was released on 2004-10-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Titus Burckhardt
Publisher : World Wisdom Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral written by Titus Burckhardt and published by World Wisdom Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion
Publisher : Mount Tabor Books
ISBN 13 : 9781612618944
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of Mary written by Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion and published by Mount Tabor Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Édouard Jeauneau
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442600071
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the School of Chartres written by Édouard Jeauneau and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deftly translated by Claude Paul Desmarais, Rethinking the School of Chartres provides a narrative that is critical, passionate, and witty.

Author : John H. Lienhard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195167313
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Engines of Our Ingenuity written by John H. Lienhard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters to a Niece written by Henry Adams and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company. This book was released on 1920 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Loney Press
ISBN 13 : 140672971X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters To A Niece And Prayer To The Virgin Of Charters written by Henry Adams and published by Loney Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1897, this early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Contents include; The function of Latin, Chansons De Geste, The Matter of Britain, Antiquity in Romance, The making of English and the settlement of European Prosody, Middle High German Poetry, The 'Fox, ' The 'Rose, ' and the minor Contributions of France, Icelandic and Provencal, The Literature of the Peninsulas, and Conclusion..... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwor

Author : Joseph F. Byrnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virgin of Chartres written by Joseph F. Byrnes and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: