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Romanesque churches are thick walls with small holes for light. Gothic churches reverse the proposition: thin stone screens framing immense windows. The wall, structurally, dissolves. Key sections include: Gothic Architecture.; Opening The wall dissolves.; Chapter I What came before.; Chapter II The pointed arch.; Chapter III Suger's Saint-Denis.; Chapter IV Notre-Dame de Paris.; Chapter V Chartres.; Chapter VI Glass as theology.; Chapter VII The flying buttress.; Chapter VIII Reims..
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