The Armor of Light: Stained Glass in Western France, 1250-1325
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Hardcover. Goldenrod cloth, white & color illus. dust jacket, 420 pp., many BW and color illus. VG (some scuffs to dj, otherwise clean.). Item #152973
ISBN: 0520051866
"The first [study] to look closely at the Gothic stained glass of western France during the late Capetian era. Generously illustratd with a wealth of color and black-and-white images never before published -- including many from French churches now closed to the public -- [this book] is a landmark publication in the study of stained glass. [It] begins in 1250, as the knights of western France returned from crusade to their troubled provincial borderlands -- to the Aquitaine formerly of Eleanor and the Plantagenet kings -- far from Paris and court fashions. It ends in the year 1325, with the onset of economic uncertainty and unrest preceding the Hundred Years' War. The seventy-five-year span has been considered transitional in the art of stained glass, a passage from the color-saturated gloom of thirteenth-century Chartres and Bourges to the delicate, light-washed court style of the next century." (dj).
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