On Chrétien de Troyes (fl.1160–1191) as an artful celebrator, Freeman (1979) writes: Renowned experts and a few enlightened laymen now concur that artificers – be they weavers, seamstresses, blacksmiths, sculptors, architects, apothecaries, even sorceresses – all engage in variants of the same fundamental processes whereby basic materials, though artfully reshaped according to the tastes and […]
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Magister Amalricius “Stained glass windows of the chancel in the parish church of Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil (on the right bank of the Seine) constructed during the transition from Romanesque to Gothic. “The Vieux-Corbeil Jesse tree [left] grows up to Christ, as expected, but differs from the larger Chartres version by culminating in the dove of the Holy
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The Chartres School Three entrance archways in the western façade of Chartres Cathedral: More important than even the cornerstone, it is the keystone that holds up the arch–making the gothic arch possible: If integument and exemplarism are represented by two of these, then the third represents the World Soul.4 The Platonically inspired Chartrians (Thierry of
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The Sphere of Light What is the way to the Inner Abbey and, supposing one has already found it,4 how does one gain access? Do you need to be of Christian persuasion? Gareth Knight concludes the first chapter to his seminal Experience of the Inner Worlds (1975)3 with a contemplative meditation within a Sphere of Light. The chapter itself describes
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