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Subject(s)

• Architecture, Gothic [Browse]

Book designer

• Wilson, Celia [Browse]

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The enigma of Gothic structure
• Modeling Gothic structure
• The beginning of High Gothic : the cathedrals of Chartres and Bourges
• Quintessential High Gothic : Amiens Cathedral and medieval engineering
• The collapse of Beauvais Cathedral
• Innovation in English Gothic buttressing : the repairs to the tower of Wells Cathedral
• Experimentation in fourteenth-century Gothic : the church of St. Ouen, Rouen, and the cathedral of Palma, Majorca
• Gothic ribbed vaulting : the high vaults of the cathedrals of Cologne and Bourges
• Conclusion: the legacy of Gothic structure.

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ISBN

• 0262131706
• 9780262131704
• 0262630958
• 9780262630955

LCCN

82000025

OCLC

8170585

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