| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 293 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Bases on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Columbia University, 2004). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index. |
| Summary |
"This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle, constructed in Paris by King Louis IX of France between 1239 and 1248 especially to hold and to celebrate Christ's Crown of Thorns. Meredith Cohen argues that the chapel's architecture, decoration, and use conveyed the notion of sacral kingship to its audience in Paris and in greater Europe, thereby implicitly elevating the French king to the level of suzerain, and establishing an early visual precedent for the political theories of royal sovereignty and French absolutism. By setting the chapel within its broader urban and royal contexts, this book offers new insight into royal representation and the rise of Paris as a political and cultural capital in the thirteenth century"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
1. The making of a royal city: Paris and the architecture of Philip Augustus -- 2. The Sainte-Chapelle: Parisian Rayonnant and the new royal architecture -- 3. The architecture of sacral kingship -- 4. Private, public, and the promotion of the cult of kings -- 5. Louis' later patronage in Paris. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sainte-Chapelle (Paris, France)
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Sainte-Chapelle (Paris, France) |
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Louis IX, King of France, 1214-1270 -- Art patronage.
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Louis IX, King of France, 1214-1270. |
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Art patronage. |
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Architecture, High Gothic -- France -- Paris.
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Architecture, High Gothic. |
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France -- Paris. |
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Symbolism in architecture -- France -- Paris.
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Symbolism in architecture. |
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France -- Kings and rulers -- Religious aspects.
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France. |
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Kings and rulers. |
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Sovereignty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Sovereignty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Paris (France) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cohen, Meredith. Sainte-Chapelle and the construction of sacral monarchy. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015 9781107025578 (DLC) 2014012758 (OCoLC)871343620 |
| ISBN |
9781139958691 (electronic book) |
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1139958690 (electronic book) |
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9781139957649 (electronic book) |
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1139957643 (electronic book) |
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9781139198332 (ebook) |
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1139198335 (ebook) |
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9781139959759 |
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1139959751 |
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9781107025578 (hardback) |
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1107025575 (hardback) |
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9781139950206 (e-book) |
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1139950207 |
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9781139949156 (e-book) |
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1139949152 |
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9781139961868 (e-book) |
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1139961861 |
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