Chartres

How To Use Chartres In A Sentence

• Chartres new luminosity and stained-glass windows illustrate a second principle of medieval aesthetics.
• However, Chartres, as well as other church figures such as the Dean of Westminster Abbey and the moderator of the Church of Scotland will also play a role in the wedding service. Yvonne Yorke: NEW Royal Wedding Details: The Dress, The Ceremony, The Receptions & More
• From the Magister Sententiarum he had fallen upon the Capitularies of Charlemagne, and in his insatiable hunger for knowledge had devoured decretal after decretal: those of Theodore, Bishop of Hispalis, those of Bouchard, Bishop of Worms, those of Yves, Bishop of Chartres; then the decretal of Gratian, which came after Charlemagne’s Capitularies; then the collection of Gregory IX; then the epistle Super specula of Honorius III. II. Claude Frollo. Book IV
• My father, who did not much like churrigueresque flamboyance, replied, 'They might use it as a model for a wedding cake, but hardly for a church.' in this matter I sided with my mother, and although later I was to see such awe-inspiring cathedrals as Chartres and Salisbury, I always thought that our cathedral in Toledo was the most angelic I had ever seen. Mexico
• In a distinctly medieval way, ressourcement was also the method of the theologians, canonists, and craftsmen at Chartres.
• So we walk through the utterly captivating townlet of Chartres, with its cobbled lanes, old maisons, Italian style piazzas, haute shops and the Eure flowing gently, even a little murkily, at the base of the town.
• In addition to the Chartres 11-circult labyrinth, there is an even more ancient pattern known as the Cretan or 7-circuit labyrinth, which was found in Neolithic rock carvings. Anne Hill: The New Sacred Travel: Labyrinth Pilgrimages
• Those who are delighted by the cathedral of Chartres and the Meninas of Velasquez may think that those who remain unaffected by these marvels are boors.
• Bishop Chartres's words were echoed during a series of commemoration services held at cathedrals and churches around the country over the weekend.
• The display of matchstick models (including Chartres cathedral in 65,000 matches) instils wide-eyed humility.