How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

INTRODUCTION

"We may live without architecture, and worship without her, but _we cannot remember without her_. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes and the uncorrupted marble bears. There are but two strong conquerors of the forgetfulness of men, Poetry and Architecture, and the latter in some sort includes the forme...