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Medieval Western

Studies of Gothic Architecture

by Robert Branner

24 x 17 cm 528 pp. 230 illus.
£150.00
Publication: October 2009
ISBN 1 904597 35 1
Cloth Bound

The work of Professor Robert Branner on French Gothic architecture needs no introduction and remains of fundamental importance today. His studies of Chartres , Bourges and Reims cathedrals are still standard works on these monuments.

This volume brings together 20 papers published by Robert Branner in the 1950s and 1960s. There is a Preface by Professor William Clark and a comprehensive index.

Contents

Preface
St Leonardus at Zoutleeuw and the Rhein Valley in the Early 13th Century
A Note on Pierre de Montreuil and Saint-Denis
Westminster Abbey and the French Court Style
Remarques sur la cathédrale de Strasbourg
La cathédrale de Chalons-sur-Marne et l’architecture gothique en Champagne au XIIIe siècle
The Transept of Cambrai Cathedral
The Montjoies of St Louis
Reims West and Tradition
The Sainte-Chapelle and the Capella Regis in the Thirteenth Century
Gothic Architecture 1160–1180 and its Romanesque Sources
‘Fabrica, opus’ and the Dating of Medieval Monuments
Les portails latéraux de la cathédrale de Bourges
Encore Bourges
The Movements of Gothic Architects between France and Spain in the Early Thirteenth Century
Villard de Honnecourt, Archimedes and Chartres
Three Problems from the Villard de Honnecourt Manuscript
Historical Aspects of the Reconstruction of Reims Cathedral 1210–1241
Jean d’Orbais and the Cathedral of Reims
The Labyrinth of Reims Cathedral
Paris and the Origins of Rayonnant Gothic Architecture down to 1240
Index