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020			_a9780857523648 _qhardcover
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040			_aYDX _beng _cYDX _erda
082	7	4	_a726.60941 _223 _bS696
100	1		_aSomerville, Christopher, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aShips of heaven : _bthe private life of Britain's cathedrals / _cChristopher Somerville.
246	3	0	_aPrivate life of Britain's cathedrals
264		1	_aLondon : _bTransworld Publishers, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2019
300			_aviii, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations color, map ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
336			_acartographic image _bcrt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"When Christopher Somerville, author of the acclaimed The January Man, set out to explore Britain's cathedrals, he found his fixed ideas shaken to the roots. Starting out, he pictured cathedrals -- Britain possesses over one hundred -- as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeyed among favourites old and new, he discovered buildings and communities that have been in constant upheaval for a thousand years. Here are stories of the monarchs and bishops who ordered the building of these massive but unstable structures, the masons whose genius brought them into being, the peasant labourers who erected (and died on) the scaffolding. We learn of rogue saints exploited by holy sinners, the pomp and prosperity that followed these monoliths, the towns that grew up in their shadows, the impact of the Black Death, the Reformation and icon-smashing Puritanism, the revival brought about by the Industrial Revolution, and the hope and disillusion of two world wars. Meeting believers and non-believers, architects and archaeologists, the cleaner who dusts the monuments and the mason who judges stone by its taste, we delve deep into the private lives and the uncertain future of these ever-voyaging Ships of Heaven."--Dust jacket.
650		4	_aCathedrals _zGreat Britain.
650		4	_aCathedrals _zGreat Britain _xHistory.
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