ART OF THE BIBLE, THE

Passing chronologically through many of the major centers of the Christian world, from Constantinople and imperial Aachen to Canterb ury, Mozarabic Spain, Crusader Jerusalem, northern Iraq, Paris, London, Bologna, and Rome, S. McKendrick and K. Doyle shed light on some of the finest but least-known paintings from the Middle Ages, and on the development of art, literature, and civilization as we know it.