Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

ISBN: 9780140390544

出版社: Penguin Classics

出版年: 1986-6

页数: 448

定价: USD 18.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

"From beginning to end, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres reads as from a man in the fresh morning of life, with a frolic power unusual to historic literature." —William James

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.