Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. As Raymond Carney discusses in his introduction, Adams' freeedom from the European traditions of study lends an exuberance-and puckish wit-to his writings. She is the subject of his Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, in which he. To feel the art of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres we have got to become pilgrims again: but, just now, the point of most interest is not the pilgrim so much as the minstrel who sang to amuse him,-the jugleor or jongleur,- who was at home in every abbey, castle or cottage, as well as at every shrine. With daring and inventive conceits, Adams looks at the ordinary people, places, and events in the context of the social conventions and systems of thought and belief of the thirteenth century turning the study of history into a kind of theater. In The Education of Henry Adams (1907), the book for which Adams is best known. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments of a past civilization. Urn:oclc:8668532 Republisher_date 20130902003524 Republisher_operator Scandate 20130826064009 Scanner Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. OL24221W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 88.54 Pages 454 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0786507802 Urn:lcp:montsaintmichel000adam:epub:83f0e1dc-38b0-4b77-b2e7-fa40923d48dc Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier montsaintmichel000adam Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t93796z7f Invoice 11 Isbn 0140390545ĩ780140390544 Lccn 86173696 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL2300637M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:49:42 Boxid IA1102502 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
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