Seize Your Copy The Master Masons Of Chartres Drafted By John James Released As Publication

analysis of Chartres is likely to be the best and most detailed we shall have.
' JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS The great cathedral of Chartres is the most impressive and exciting building surviving from the middle ages, andis preserved almost intact.
Yet we know nothing of the men who created it, John James, in this masterpiece of detection, shows how he came to identify the master masons from the stones themselves.
His meticulous reading' of the cathedral has revealed much about those men: how they solved problems of engineering and design, how they raised twoton stones forty metres into the air, and how one mason controlled overmen in this gigantic workshop.
JOHN JAMES is an Australian architect, His first visit to Chartres, in, led to a continuing passion for the early Gothic buildings of northern France, and he has been reading their stones' ever since.
Librarian Note: There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name, sitelink See this thread for information, Dr. John James is an Australian architect, builder, farmer, transpersonal therapist and medieval historian with a passion for discovery.
Foryears he has been searching to understand the workings of the human psyche, and for the origins of the Gothic style.
In the latter pursuit he became a world authority on Chartres cathedral, and is currently producing a nine

volume thesaurus on early gothic in France.
He has received many awards for this, In therapy he founded the Crucible Centre in the mountains west of Sydney described in his book The Great Field.
Librarian Note: There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name, sitelink See this thread for information, Dr. John James is an Australian architect, builder, farmer, transpersonal therapist and medieval historian with a passion for discovery.
Foryears he has been searching to understand the workings of the human psyche, and for the origins of the Gothic style.
In the latter pursuit he became a world authority on Chartres cathedral, and is currently producing a nine volume thesaurus on early gothic in France.
He has received many awards for this, In therapy he founded the Crucible Centre in the mountains west of Sydney described in his book "The Great Field.
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