Bread, Wine, and Money: The Windows of the Trades at Chartres Cathedral United States This is a story about

This is a story about a friendship that one child has with the earth

Looks at the impact of capitalism on the development of the United States in the early nineteenth century

from such simple items as windows

" a creation of the imagination that discloses the truth of the human heart

ISBN13: 9780072959888 ISBN10: 0072959886 Material Type: paperback

Bread, Wine, and Money: The Windows of the Trades at Chartres Cathedral United States This is a story aboutAt 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