Ships Of Heaven
Ships Of Heaven _________________ 'Something close to divine inspiration' - The TimesWhen Christopher Somerville, author of the The January Man ('a truly wonderful, uplifting book, bursting with…
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Ships Of Heaven
_________________ 'Something close to divine inspiration' - The TimesWhen Christopher Somerville, author of the The January Man ('a truly wonderful, uplifting book, bursting with life' - Nicholas Crane), 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. 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. But as he journeys among favourites old and new, he discovers buildings and communities that have been in constant upheaval for a thousand years.
We learn of rogue saints exploited by holy sinners, the pomp and prosperity that