Architecture and Society in Normandy, 1120-1270 - Hardcover

Grant, Lindy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300106866 ISBN 13: 9780300106862

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This wide-ranging book explores the architecture—principally ecclesiastical—of Normandy from 1120 to 1270, a period of profound social, cultural, and political change. In 1204, control of the duchy of Normandy passed from the hands of the Anglo-Norman/Angevin descendants of William the Conqueror to the Capetian kingdom of France. The book examines the enormous cultural impact of this political change and places the architecture of the time in the context of the Normans’ complicated sense of their own identity. It is the first book to consider the inception and development of gothic architecture in Normandy and the first to establish a reliable chronology of buildings.
 
Lindy Grant extends her investigation beyond the buildings themselves and also offers an account of those who commissioned, built, and used them. The humanized story she tells provides sharp insights not only into Normandy’s medieval architecture, but also into the fascinating society from which it emerged.

About this title

Book Description:

In this book, the first to consider the development of Gothic architecture in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Normandy, Lindy Grant examines a period of profound social, cultural, and political change. She establishes the first reliable chronology of buildings while providing sharp insights into Normandy’s medieval architecture and its patrons and architects.

About the Author:

Lindy Grant is medieval curator at the Conway Library, the Courtauld Institute, University of London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0300106866
• ISBN 13: 9780300106862
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 284