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Margaret Visser.
The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery and Meaning in an Ordinary Church.
Published Harmondsworth: Viking, 2001 (previously published in Canada, 2000).
ISBN 0670879193;
ISBN-13: 9780670879199.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: Clays Ltd., St. Ives.
Size: 165×240×29mm.
Page count: xii,323pp inc. monochrome frontispiece.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is very grubby (printed on a white background, so it shows more), some wear to the edges and corners, not too severe; pages starting to yellow with age, otherwise the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £10.00
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[North Point Press hardback in print at $27.00]659g.

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Presents a study of the 7th-century church of St. Agnes outside the walls of Rome.

Contents: The door swings open — threshold; Space & time — narthex & ground plan; trajectory — nave; Alpha & omega — altar; World without end — apse; Living stones — chapels, left side; One body — chapels, right side; Eternal rest — outside; Finer than gold — road, crypt & tower; Virgin martyr — tomb.

Illustrations: monochrome frontispiece
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 16pp
Index: yes

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