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Christine Sciacca.
Building the Medieval World.
Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum/London: British Library, 2010.
Series: The Medieval Imagination.
ISBN 9780712350945.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; printed boards, published without a dustjacket.
Printer: Tien Wah Press, Singapore.
Size: 197x222x14mm.
Page count: viii,96pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good to very good: this copy has some mild scuffs on the covers, but overall doesn’t look heavily used, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £7.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £12.95]
Weight without packaging: 509g.

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Investigates what might be learned of medieval building from images in illuminated manuscripts.

Contents: The castle; Church spaces; Medieval cities, towns & countryside; Documenting historical buildings; Medieval construction methods; Architecture inside & out; Architecture in scripture -- in medieval literature; Saints & their architectural symbols; Virgin Mary & the Church; Architecture takes center stage; Architecture in the margins; Triumphal arches & niches of honor; Framing charts & texts; Structuring compositions; Architecture abstracted.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: throughout, mostly colour
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: half-page
Index: no

See also | Architecture | Illuminated manuscripts |
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