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Cathedrals and the people who made them

Emma Wells, "Heaven on Earth: The lives and legacies of the world's greatest cathedrals"


Most books on cathedrals focus on the architecture: this book focuses on people:

Kings cementing their legacies.

Townspeople besieging cathedrals to halt construction.

Bishops waging war to force the townspeople to pay.

Cathedrals take centuries to build; one of the reasons is just how often they burn down, fall to pieces, and are deconstructed and reconstructed in the latest fashion.


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