LINKS TO OTHER PARADOXPLACE BOOK PAGES
Paradoxplace Medieval Christian Church Pages
Books about the History, Architecture and Art of the Medieval Christian Church
(Books about Pilgrimage and Pilgrimages)
Biographies (including Saint Francis)
Books written in the Middle Ages
ARCHITECTURE AND ART OF THE MIDDLE AGES
LINK TO ALL PARADOXPLACE PAGES ON THE WESTERN EUROPEAN MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND CHURCHES
LINK TO GUIDES AND BOOKS ON BRITISH CHURCHES, ABBEYS AND CATHEDRALS
BOOKS ABOUT MEDIEVAL PILGRIMAGES
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There is a c1976 coffee table book by Lawrence Lee et al called "Stained Glass" which is a real tour de force of the history and mechanics of stained glass. As well as great colour photos by Sonia Halliday and Laura Lushingham, it contains keys to all the windows in Chartres, York and a couple of other places. It's out of print, but can still be found second hand sometimes.
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Ten of the best coffee table sized books in the Dom Paradox library .....
Ulrike Laule et al's Architecture of the Middle Ages mainly concentrates brilliantly on abbeys and churches, but includes some secular architecture. Though not as comprehensive as the two Schütz books below, it's our favourite of the four books here.
At last search, this beautiful book was only available second hand, but it is well worth the effort to find.
Link to Paradoxplace Cloister Pages
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"Great Cathedrals" by Schütz has seriously good photographic coverage of the main cathedrals of England, France, Germany, Spain and Italy (ex Puglia, which you have to come to this site for), and a lot of it.
Schütz's equally fat and well photographed "Great Monasteries of Europe" does for monasteries what his book on the left did for cathedrals.
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"Little gems of books" - small paperbacks but printed on glazed paper with high quality illustrations - well researched and easy to read overviews. There is also one on Saint Francis and his world.
Another little gem in the same mould as the ones on faith above right, but this time from Thames and Hudson
Link to lots more books about British Cathedrals, Abbeys and Churches
A modern pilgrimage along a medieval route
Link to more books about Spain and Portugal
Link to photos from the Camino
All you wanted to know about dualist heresies
The Cathars - Eleven and early Twelve Hundreds
An almost iconic painting of the Spanish Borgia Pope Alessandro VI which you will find, along with the crozier of the founder of the Cistercians, in Dijon (Burgundy).
From the duo that brought you "The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail"
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