By Otto Georg Von Simson
''The Gothic Cathedral is the main stimulating and finished paintings at the topic thus far. . . . If the cathedrals are to be understood, Mr. von Simson rightly publicizes, they have to be noticeable now not within the mild of twentieth-century esthetic commentary, yet of twelfth-century non secular event, by which the supernatural permeated each point of human life. . . . The ensuing interpretation of the monuments is a serious journey de force.'' --Allan Temko, the hot York occasions booklet evaluate ''Not because Mont-St.-Michel and Chartres has so poetic and so evocative a research of the Gothic move been released. . . . The Gothic Cathedral relies on a large real in addition to intuitive wisdom, reworked via the author's illuminating variety right into a textual content either bold and pleasurable.''--The Virginia Quarterly assessment
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