Salty Waters

MURRAY, STEPHEN

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Collins Crime Club, London, 1988

Inspector Alec Stainton investigates a murder at his old school when a young master is the victim of a judicial-style hanging. Staff and pupils come under suspicion, but everything is darkened by a long shadow from the past.

The noose of time

Crime Club/Collins

A Cool Killing

Mystery

HarperCollins, Publishers

Geographica's Family Atlas

Random House]

A historian of medieval art and architecture with a rich appreciation of literary studies, Stephen Murray brings all those fields to bear on a new approach to understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Plotting Gothic positions the rhetoric of the Gothic as a series of three interlocking plots: a spatial plot tied to the material construction of the churches, a social plot stemming from the collaborative efforts that made Gothic output possible, and a rhetorical plot involving narratives that treat the churches as objects of desire. Drawing on the testimony of three witnesses involved in church building―Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, Gervase of Canterbury, and the image maker Villard de Honnecourt―and a range of secondary sources, Murray traces common patterns in the way medieval buildings were represented in words and images. Our witnesses provide vital information about the way the great churches of Gothic were built and the complexity of their meanings. Taking a fresh approach to Gothic architecture, Plotting Gothic offers an invigorating new way to understand some of the most lasting achievements of the medieval era.

Plotting Gothic

History

Europe

University of Chicago Press

Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. Its construction began in 1220, and artistic production in the Gothic mode lasted well into the sixteenth century. In this magisterial chronicle, Stephen Murray invites readers to see the cathedral as more than just a thing of the past: it is a living document of medieval Christian society that endures in our own time. Murray tells the cathedral's story from the overlapping perspectives of the social groups connected to it, exploring the ways that the layfolk who visit the cathedral occasionally, the clergy who use it daily, and the artisans who created it have interacted with the building over the centuries. He considers the cycles of human activity around the cathedral and shows how groups of makers and users have been inextricably intertwined in collaboration and, occasionally, conflict. The book travels around and through the spaces of the cathedral, allowing us to re-create similar passages by our medieval predecessors. Murray reveals the many worlds of the cathedral and brings them together in the architectural triumph of its central space. A beautifully illustrated account of a grand, historically and religiously important building from a variety of perspectives and in a variety of time periods, this book offers readers a memorable tour of Notre-Dame of Amiens that celebrates the cathedral's eight hundredth anniversary. Notre-Dame of Amiens is enhanced by high-resolution images, liturgical music, and animations embedded in an innovative website.

Notre-Dame of Amiens: Life of the Gothic Cathedral (Columbiana)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

ABOUT THIS BOOK -- Troyes Cathedral, in the Champagne region of France, is one of the great triumphs of gothic architecture. Stephen Murray's book begins in 1200 when the building was a "still unfinished" hulk and carries through to the cathedral's (very late gothic) completion in the mid-1500's. This is both a book about architecture and a book about how economics, court politics, and war shaped and reshaped the city of Troyes. "A rich and unusual history of the building." "From what sources were the funds obtained? How were decisions made about construction materials and style? What problems did the builders face and how were they solved? To what extent did individual stone carvers [and stained glass artisans] leave their individual imprints?" Murray's work here is supported not by vague "historical forces" but by 250 years of receipts, expense records, and careful analysis of the structure. BOOK DETAILS -- A handsome book from Indiana University Press. Large format hardback with dustjacket. 257 pp. 3 pounds. Cloth over hardback boards with a sewn binding. B&amp;w illustrations throughout: photos, elevations, floorplans, tables, sections, a map. 4 Appendices. Indexed. Over 23 pp of bibliographic information.

Building Troyes Cathedral: The late Gothic campaigns

Indiana University Press

Divorce Recovery for Teenagers, How to help your kids recover, heal, and grow when their families are ripped apart by Stephen Murray and Randy Smith, Paperback.

Divorce Recovery for Teenagers

Reference

Smith, Randy

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Youth Specialties

Alec Stainton, a police inspector on his first case, investigates the murder of Dr. Geoffrey Swainson, a hospital consultant who had many enemies, consultant who had many enemies, including jilted lovers, jealous husbands, and ambitious colleagues

St Martins Pr

Tracy Ashford loses her title as local beauty queen when her nude poses for a newspaper are discovered, and soon after her body washes up on the shore, leaving Detective Inspector Alec Stainton to track down her killer

Literature & Fiction

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