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Beyond the Barrier: The Unifying Role of the Choir Screen in Gothic Churches.

From: The Art Bulletin  |  Date: 12/1/2000  |  Author: Jung, Jacqueline E.

Thomas Hardy's early novel A Laodicean (first published in 1881) focuses on the relationship between Paula Power, a spirited young woman intent on breathing new life into a ruined medieval castle, and George Somerset, a brilliant neo-Gothic architect she hires to carry out the renovations. [1] Wavering between the romanticized medieval past and a speedily progressing era of modern technology, the two find in each other the balancing pole between those worlds. Their mutual contentment ...

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