文档介绍：Universe of Stone
A Biography of Chartres Cathedral
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PHILIP BALL
Contents
Acknowledgements v
Introduction 1
1 The Isle Rises
Chartres in the Kingdom of France 8
2 A Change of Style
The Invention of Gothic 23
3 Heaven on Earth
What is a Cathedral? 52
4 Seek Not to Know High Things
Faith and Reason in the Middle Ages 69
5 Building by Numbers
Science and Geometry at the School of Chartres 100
6 Masters of Works
The Men Who Planned the Cathedrals 136
7 Hammer and Stone
Medieval Masons 170
Photographic Insert
8 Underneath the Arches
House of Forces 193
9 Holy Radiance
The Metaphysics of Light 233
10 Hard Labour
How the Cathedral Rose 256
11 A New Beginning
The First Renaissance 281
Notes 292
Bibliography 306
Index 313
About the Author
Other Books by Philip Ball
Credits
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher
Acknowledgements
It is always salutary to be reminded why writers need good editors,
and both the shape and the fine print of this book have benefited
immensely from the advice and experience of Will Sulkin and Terry
Karten, whose enthusiasm has been a sustaining force. My agent Clare
Alexander has also provided plenty of the latter, as has my wife Julia,
with whom I discovered the delights of Chartres at first hand. Caroline
Jackson generously read the section on medieval glass, and Donald
Royce-Roll supplied some valuable papers on that topic. Alex
Rowbotham has provided splendid images of the cathedral that I might
not otherwise have had the means to obtain.
Introduction
In 1204 some of the finest churches in Christendom were ransacked
and the precious icons and relics were divided up among the plun-
derers. They snatched reliquaries from altars, forced open chests filled
with holy treasures, stripped gold and silver metalwork from church
fixtures. In their haste they spilled the sacramental wine over the
marble floor, where it migh