Bread, Wine, and Money: The Windows of the Trades at Chartres Cathedral United States ISBN13: 9780226429748 ISBN10: 0226429741 Material

ISBN13: 9780226429748 ISBN10: 0226429741 Material Type: hardcover

Paul's Cathedral

as well as her relationships with Mary Martha

from such simple items as windows

Bread, Wine, and Money: The Windows of the Trades at Chartres Cathedral United States ISBN13: 9780226429748 ISBN10: 0226429741 MaterialAt Chartres Cathedral, for the first time in medieval art, the lowest register of stained glass windows depicts working artisans and merchants instead of noble and clerical donors. Jane Welch Williams challenges the prevailing view that pious town tradesmen donated these windows. In Bread, Wine, and Money, she uncovers a deep antagonism between the trades and the cathedral clergy in Chartres; the windows, she argues, portray not town tradesmen but