Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 230 g
Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 230 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History
ISBN: 978-1-108-01133-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
M. R. James (1862–1936) is probably best remembered as a writer of chilling ghost stories, but he was an outstanding scholar of medieval literature and palaeography, who served both as Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. His short book from 1901 on the texts inscribed in the famous stained-glass windows of Canterbury Cathedral is paired here with an anonymous guide to the windows published in 1897. Its author is believed to have been Emily Williams, whose aim was 'to give some account of the changes which have taken place in the arrangement of the old painted glass' during the major restoration which was taking place throughout the nineteenth century. The preface is by Dean Farrar, the author of the popular morality tale for children, Eric, or Little by Little, and all proceeds were to go to the Cathedral Restoration Fund.
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Prefatory note; The source of the verses; The subjects of the windows; The arrangement of the windows; The position of the windows; Preface F. W. Farrar; 1. The clerestory; 2. Windows in the north aisle of choir; 3. North and south triforium; 4. North and south choir transept; 5a. Trinity Chapel and Becket's Crown; 5b. Trinity Chapel; 6. South transept of nave; 7. West window in the nave; 8. North transept of nave; 9. The Dean's Chapel and St. Michael's; 10. Theological windows; 11. Stories translated from the Latin chronicles; 12. Modern windows.
