Eleanor Levieux Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Bringing readers up to date with the 1990s, the authors present an utterly entertaining and informative guide to the "new France". 11 line drawings.

Recognizing that a work of art is the product of a particular time and place as much as it is the creation of an individual, Duby provides a sweeping survey of the changing mentalities of the Middle Ages as reflected in the art and architecture of the period. "If Age of the Cathedrals has a fault, it is that Professor Duby knows too much, has too many new ideas and takes such a delight in setting them out. . . insights whiz to and fro like meteorites."—John Russell, New York Times Book Review