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The Medieval Church · c. 1144–1149
On What Was Done Under His Administration
Abbot Suger · 1081–1151
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What it is
An account of rebuilding the abbey church of Saint-Denis, with the reasoning behind its light-filled choir: the dull mind rises to truth through material things.
Why it lasted
The founding document of Gothic architecture, written by the man who commissioned the first Gothic building.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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