GLORY IN STONE
MONASTIC SITES FROM THE AIR, by . David Knowles and J. K. S. St, Joseph; Sse University Press. English price, E may wonder how many New Zealanders, making a round of old English Cathedrals, fully realise the magnitude of achievement in an age when the population was only a small fraction of what it is now and the proportion of wealth was still smaller, Yet this is by no means the whole story. In addition to these churches in use, some of which incorporate old abbeys, and such starred sights as the ruins of Glastonbury and Tintern, there are numbers of other monastic relics. These are in various states of preservation. Some have been absorbed by country houses; others are piles of stones; others have left marks on the ground, visible perhaps only from the air. Professor Knowles, professor of mediaeval history at Cambridge, may well say that preparation of this book "has given a new sense of the genius for_order and beauty of the sath and 13th Centuries." The book is an aerial survey, with detailed descriptions, of nearly 130 monastic sites in England, Scotland and Wales, arranged according to religious orders. Dr. St. Joseph, curator in aerial photography in Cambridge, supervised the illustrations, which were taken by the. Royal Air Force. Beauty of building and landscape, together with scholarly written information, combine to make a magnificent production. Items range from the irony of Welbeck Abbey, wiiere remnants of an ancient foundation are embedded in the visible and subterranean splendours of the seat of the Duke of Portland, on which the fifth Duke spent millions (his successor today is possibly glad to get the half-crowns of visitors), to Mirfield and Yeavering in Northumberland, where, on ground without house or tree, the past was revealed by crop-markings as late as 1948-49, This noble record, a’ monument to authors and publishers, is primarily for students of church history and architecture; but, as Professor Knowles says, there is the wider appeal to all interested in the life of the Middle Ages.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 13
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343GLORY IN STONE New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 13
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