tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post4076334790391742073..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `No One Signed His Name'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-17360763858092814962013-04-11T23:55:22.083-05:002013-04-11T23:55:22.083-05:00Right, here it is: Henry Kraus, Gold was the Morta...Right, here it is: Henry Kraus, <i>Gold was the Mortar: The Economics of Cathedral Building </i>. US publication date is 1994; seems to be out of print. But I bought my French edidtion, <i>L'Argent des cathédrales</i>, published a s a cerf imprint in 2012. Note comprehensive but there is a chapter on Amien.<br /><br />And speaking of unknown, have you ever visited Canterbury? There is (used to be) a model of the cathedral with a little guy hanging in mid-air on a piece of near-invisible thread. Evidently the builder was killed in a fall...Bucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452321114185736762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-76095391841230744082013-04-09T18:56:13.453-05:002013-04-09T18:56:13.453-05:00Other refs: Jean Gimpel, The Cathedral Builders; A...Other refs: Jean Gimpel, <i>The Cathedral Builders</i>; Alain Erlande-Brandenberg, <i>The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages</i>.<br /><br />Got another that I bought in Brussels last year, at home on the bedside table. In French though I think originally English.<br /><br />I set out to explore the topic on the premise that they took so long a-building because there was no developed capital market. Turns out to be a fantasy. Some of the builders had the money in pocket; others were able to raise it in a hurry; others got distracted by political/power issues unrelated to finance.Bucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452321114185736762noreply@blogger.com