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Ships Of Heaven

- The Private Life of Britain’s Cathedrals
Af: Christopher Somerville Engelsk Paperback

Ships Of Heaven

- The Private Life of Britain’s Cathedrals
Af: Christopher Somerville Engelsk Paperback
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‘Somerville is one of our finest gazetteers of the British countryside. He brings his formidable knowledge to bear on his personal quest to explore the cathedrals in this entrancing book’
The Spectator

Christopher Somerville, author of the acclaimed The January Man, pictured cathedrals as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeys among Britian’s favourites, old and new, he discovers buildings and communities that have been in constant upheaval for a thousand years. Here are stories of the monarchs and bishops who ordered the construction of these buildings, the masons whose genius brought them into being, and the peasants who worked and died on the scaffolding. We learn of rogue saints exploited by holy sinners, the pomp and prosperity that followed these ships of stone, the towns that grew up in their shadows.

Meeting believers and non-believers, architects and archaeologists, the cleaner who dusts the monuments and the mason who judges stone by its taste, we delve deep into the private lives and the uncertain future of these ever-voyaging Ships of Heaven.

‘Somerville paints word pictures of exquisite quality’
Church Times

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‘Somerville is one of our finest gazetteers of the British countryside. He brings his formidable knowledge to bear on his personal quest to explore the cathedrals in this entrancing book’
The Spectator

Christopher Somerville, author of the acclaimed The January Man, pictured cathedrals as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeys among Britian’s favourites, old and new, he discovers buildings and communities that have been in constant upheaval for a thousand years. Here are stories of the monarchs and bishops who ordered the construction of these buildings, the masons whose genius brought them into being, and the peasants who worked and died on the scaffolding. We learn of rogue saints exploited by holy sinners, the pomp and prosperity that followed these ships of stone, the towns that grew up in their shadows.

Meeting believers and non-believers, architects and archaeologists, the cleaner who dusts the monuments and the mason who judges stone by its taste, we delve deep into the private lives and the uncertain future of these ever-voyaging Ships of Heaven.

‘Somerville paints word pictures of exquisite quality’
Church Times

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9780857523655
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0857523651
Kategori: Storbritannien
Udg. Dato: 19 mar 2020
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 137mm
Højde: 202mm
Forlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 19 mar 2020
Forfatter(e): Christopher Somerville
Forfatter(e) Christopher Somerville


Kategori Storbritannien


ISBN-13 9780857523655


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 368


Udgave


Længde 23mm


Bredde 137mm


Højde 202mm


Udg. Dato 19 mar 2020


Oplagsdato 19 mar 2020


Forlag Transworld Publishers Ltd

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