Bread, Wine, and Money: The Windows of the Trades at Chartres Cathedral United States from such simple items as

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ISBN13: 9780132832120 ISBN10: 0132832127 Material Type: hardcover

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

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Bread, Wine, and Money: The Windows of the Trades at Chartres Cathedral United States from such simple items asAt 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