transformed since the Cultural Revolution
Looks at the impact of capitalism on the development of the United States in the early nineteenth century
" a creation of the imagination that discloses the truth of the human heart
as well as her relationships with Mary Martha
ISBN13: 9780226429748 ISBN10: 0226429741 Material Type: hardcover
Bread, Wine, and Money: The Windows of the Trades at Chartres Cathedral United States transformed since the Cultural RevolutionAt 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