Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-262) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Normandy and Gothic architecture -- Normandy : polity, place and people -- The Norman Church -- Patronage and piety -- The new architecture -- The emergence of Gothic architecture in Normandy circa 1120-circa 1160 -- The 1160s and 1170s : French influence and the patronage of the great churchmen -- Architecture in the last decades of ducal Normandy, circa 1180-1204 -- Rouen Cathedral and architecture in upper Normandy in the earlier thirteenth century -- The South-West -- The architecture of central lower Normandy in the thirteenth century -- The reception of rayonnant in Normandy.