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A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral

By Robert A. Scott

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: A Personal Journey PART I: A GRAND UNDERTAKING 1 What Is the Gothic Enterprise? 2 How Were the Cathedrals Built? PART II: HISTORY 3 Kings, Feudal Lords, and Great Monasteries 4 The Age of Cathedral-Building 5 The Initial Vision 6 "The Cathedral Crusade" PART III: THE GOTHIC LOOK 7 What Is the Gothic Look? 8 An Image of Heaven 9 A Pragmatic View of Cathedral-Building PART IV: THE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 10 Sacred Force and Sacred Space 11 Imagining the Cathedral 12 Honoring the Dead PART V: THE GOTHIC COMMUNITY 13 Medieval Living Conditions 14 The Spiritual Brokers--Priests and Monarchs 15 Cathedrals and Community Conclusion: Learning from Stonehenge Appendix: Terminology Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations and Photography Credits Index

About the Author

Robert A. Scott is Associate Director Emeritus of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and was previously Professor of Sociology at Princeton University for 18 years. He is the coauthor of Why Sociology Does Not Apply (1979); author of Making of Blind Men (1969); editor of several collections of essays about stigma, deviancy, and social control; and author of numerous articles, book chapters, and essays on related topics.