Notre-Dame, Cathedral of Amiens: The Power of Change in Gothic

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Murray, Stephen.

Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1996

Very exhaustive social and architectural study of this highest of high gothic cathedrals.

This book is a comprehensive study of one of the most ambitious building programmes of the high middle ages. Offering a new approach to the traditional building monograph, Stephen Murray critically re-examines the documentary, archaeological, and historiographical evidence and contemporary theological debates, as well as the social, political and economic contexts in which Amiens was conceived and erected. By reintegrating these various data, Murray proposes a new chronology for the cathedral and, moreover, reconceptualises our understanding of the nature of medieval building campaigns, emphasising the dynamics of change that occurred during the course of construction.

234 pp. 138 B/W illus.