Christine Hediger, ed.
La Sainte-Chapelle de Paris: Royaume de France ou Jérusalem céleste?
Culture et Société Médiévales.
Turnhout, Belgium:
Brepols,
2008.
414 pp.; 43 b/w ills.
Paper
€65.00
(9782503525778)
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An intriguing concept lies behind this anthology: in 1999, a group of graduate students under the direction of Yves Christe in Geneva began the systematic comparison of the iconography of the Bibles moralisées and the stained glass of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. In 2001, their results were presented along with other scholarship on the Sainte-Chapelle at an international colloquium organized by Christe and Peter Kurmann at the Collège de France. Four contributors from the Geneva...