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The Archangel loved heights. Standing on the summit of the tower that crowned his church, wings upspread, sword uplifted, the devil crawling beneath, and the cock, symbol of eternal vigilance, perched on his mailed foot, Saint Michael held a place of his own in heaven and on earth which seems, in the eleventh century, to leave hardly room for the Virgin of the Crypt at Chartres, still less for the Beau Christ of the thirteenth century at Amiens.

420 pp. Planteado como un relato didáctico dedicado a sus sobrinas, Adams parte de la realidad arquitectónica para viajar a través del tiempo hasta el corazón del pensamiento medieval y del arte gótico, verdadero crisol de la cultura europea. El propio autor nos explica: «Quise mostrar la intensidad de la energía vital de una época concreta, y por supuesto esta intensidad tenía que expresarse a través de sus máximos exponentes, la religión y el arte.» Mont Saint Michel y Chartres es el resultado de un viaje reflexivo por la imaginación medieval a través del tiempo y del espacio. Partiendo de la arquitectura, la escultura y los vitrales policromados de los dos conocidos monumentos, Adams da vida a lo que otros ven como meras obras de una civilización pasada. «Con una prosa evocadora y sensible, Adams pasa de la arquitectura, la escultura y los vitrales de Chartres a la religión, la literatura, la política, el orden social y las cruzadas de los siglos XI a XIII. Adams traduce la poesía del amor cortés y relata el drama de Leonor de Aquitania y el amor eterno de Abelardo y Eloísa. Su narrativa se eleva al final hasta el brillantemente recreado drama de la victoria de Tomás de Aquino sobre sus filósofos rivales.» --Ernest Samuels

This book is a journey through time, for earlier centuries have all left their mark o the stonework of Mont Saint-Michel. A visit to the rock's many nooks and crannies is like turning over a vast page of history. This is an epic tale, based on the faith and valour of man, the only possible explanation for the creation and survival of such outstanding architecture. And this is the best way to understand the beauty of the proud outline that is known and recognized throughout the world.

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21x14. 416p. Rústica ed. Con solapas. Fotogr. Ilust. Núm. 11. Trad. José Rafael Hernández Arias. Prólogo José Enrique Ruiz-Domènec. Leve subrayado a lápiz alguna hoja interior. Buen estado. LIBRO EN ESPAÑOL

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Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments of a past civilization. With daring and inventive conceits, Adams looks at the ordinary people, places, and events in the context of the social conventions and systems of thought and belief of the thirteenth century turning the study of history into a kind of theater.As Raymond Carney discusses in his introduction, Adams' freeedom from the European traditions of study lends an exuberance—and puckish wit—to his writings.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. 

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Excerpt: ... us in our infancy too quickly takes colours that are not so much sober as sordid, and would be welcome if no worse than that. Vulgarity, too, has feeling, and its expression in art has truth and even pathos, but we shall have time enough in our lives for that, and all the more because, when we rise from our knees now, we have finished our pilgrimage. We have done with Chartres. For seven hundred years Chartres has seen pilgrims, coming and going more or less like us, and will perhaps see them for another seven hundred years; but we shall see it no more, and can safely leave the Virgin in her majesty, with her three great prophets on either hand, as calm and confident in their own strength and in God's providence as they were when Saint Louis was born, but looking down from a deserted heaven, into an empty church, on a dead faith. CHAPTER XI THE THREE QUEENS After worshipping at the shrines of Saint Michael on his Mount and of the Virgin at Chartres, one may wander far and wide over France, and seldom feel lost; all later Gothic art comes naturally, and no new thought disturbs the perfected form. Yet tourists of English blood and American training are seldom or never quite at home there. Commonly they feel it only as a stage-decoration. The twelfth and thirteenth centuries, studied in the pure light of political economy, are insane. The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman-Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin. Very rarely one lingers, with a mild sympathy, such as suits the patient student of human error, willing to be interested in what he cannot understand. Still more rarely, owing to some revival of archaic instincts, he rediscovers the woman. This is perhaps the mark of the artist alone, and his solitary privilege. The rest of us cannot feel; we can only study. The proper study of mankind is woman and, by...

This first paperback facsimile of the classic 1913 edition includes thirteen photographs and numerous illustrations of the great cathedrals of Northern France. Henry Adams referred to this book as "A Study of Thirteenth-Century Unity," and its expansive scope, together with the author's deep understanding of the period, makes it a classic in art history as well as in American literature. He wrote, "I wanted to show the intensity of the vital energy of a given time, and of course that intensity had to be stated in its two highest terms-religion and art." Henry Adams' record of his journeys through France, searching for images of unity in an age of conflict, is accompanied by observations on literature, politics, religion, and maior church leaders such as Abelard, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Thomas Aquinas.

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Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments of a past civilization. With daring and inventive conceits, Adams looks at the ordinary people, places, and events in the context of the social conventions and systems of thought and belief of the thirteenth century turning the study of history into a kind of theater. As Raymond Carney discusses in his introduction, Adams' freeedom from the European traditions of study lends an exuberance—and puckish wit—to his writings.