The early stained glass of Canterbury Cathedral, circa 1175-1220

The description for this book, The Early Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral: Circa 1175-1220, will be forthcoming. Frontmatter List of Plates (page ix) List of Text Figures (page xv) List of Appendix Figures (page xv) Acknowledgments (page xvii) Introduction (page 3) I. Method of Study: Problems of Restoration and the Authenticity of Medieval Glass (page 13) II. The Historical Background and the Problem of Dating (page 23) III. Method of Study: Style and Ornament (page 36) Comparative material (page 37) The part played by composition and ornament in the Canterbury windows (page 41) General stylistic background (page 45) IV. The Transitional Windows: The Early and Middle Periods (page 49) The early period: the Methuselah Master (page 49) The middle period (page 58) V. The Gothic Windows: Sens, Canterbury, and Chartres (page 83) The Canterbury-Sens Designer: composition and ornament (page 84) The Sens painters (page 90) The development of the style of the Fitz-Eisulf Master at Canterbury (page 93) The Joseph Window in Chartres (page 95) The dates of the Trinity Chapel ambulatory windows (page 96) The chronology of the Trinity Chapel clerestory glazing (page 98) VI. The Iconographic Program (page 101) The subjects of the windows (page 103) The planning and execution of the program (page 106) VII. Biblical Subjects (page 107) The ancestors of Christ (page 107) The typological windows: the cycle (page 115) The typological windows: design sources and related series (page 120) VIII. Hagiographical Subjects (page 139) The cycles: changes in emphasis (page 140) The lives of Sts. Dunstan and Alphage (page 144) The Becket windows (page 146) IX. Conclusions (page 151) Appendix: Figures (page 159) Bibliography (page 179) Index (page 185) Plates Madeline Harrison Caviness. -- Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [179]-184. xix, 190 pages, 52 unnumbered leaves of plates : 29 cm