Based on a fresh reading of primary sources, Lindy Grant's comprehensive biography of Abbot Suger (1081-1151) provides a reassessment of a key figure of the twelfth century. Active in secular and religious affairs alike - Suger was Regent of France and also abbot of one of the most important abbeys in Europe during the time of the Gregorian reforms. But he is primarily remembered as a great artistic patron whose commissions included buildings in the new Gothic style. Lindy Grant reviews him in all these roles - and offers a corrective to the current tendency to exaggerate his role as architect of both French royal power and the new gothic form.
- ISBN10 0582051509
- ISBN13 9780582051508
- Publish Date 14 May 1998
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 4 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pearson Education Limited
- Imprint Longman
- Format Paperback
- Pages 360
- Language English