Architecture and Society in Normandy, 1120-1270

THE Norman people and Normandy have been the subject of a great deal of historical writing during the past half century. This has included studies of Romanesque architecture in the period before and after the 1066 conquest of England, and many monographs on particular buildings and specialised topics up to the end of the thirteenth century. Dr Lindy Grant, however, is the first historian to publish a broad survey of Gothic architecture in Normandy in the hundred and fifty years on either side of the loss of Normandy to the French king in 1204, and to establish a chronology of Norman Gothic architecture. Moreover, she has looked at the subject against the background of the varied and changing society of Normandy, which has been described at different times as ‘almost a part of France’ and as ‘a province that was a distinct nation’. She is well qualified to attempt the project. Author of a definitive work on Abbot Suger, whose rebuilding work at St Denis between 1135 and 1144 had an important (but, as she points out, often exaggerated) place in the development of the Gothic style, she has published a number of specialised papers placing particular buildings in their social setting. She is also an accomplished photographer, with an extensive portfolio of photographs that show buildings from every angle, with details of different types of shafting, capitals, and mouldings. In this way she illustrates the gradual mastery of the techniques of vaulting, the skilled use of the various types of stone available, and the changing tastes of patrons and of the architects and masons employed by them

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