[Download] "Abbot Suger of St-Denis" by Lindy Grant & David Bates * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Abbot Suger of St-Denis
- Author : Lindy Grant & David Bates
- Release Date : January 04, 2016
- Genre: History,Books,Religion & Spirituality,Christianity,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 5384 KB
Description
Based on a fresh reading of primary sources, Lindy Grant's comprehensive biography of Abbot Suger (1081-1151) provides a reassessment of a key figure of the twelfth century. Active in secular and religious affairs alike - Suger was Regent of France and also abbot of one of the most important abbeys in Europe during the time of the Gregorian reforms. But he is primarily remembered as a great artistic patron whose commissions included buildings in the new Gothic style. Lindy Grant reviews him in all these roles - and offers a corrective to the current tendency to exaggerate his role as architect of both French royal power and the new gothic form.