LoginThe Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology, and Music
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Wright (history of music, Yale Univ.; Listening to Music) traces the fascinating history of the maze and its associated symbol, the warrior, from the classical myth of Daedelus and Theseus through early Christianity, the Middle Ages, and the Enlightenment. He briefly acknowledges the recent growth in interest in the maze as a spiritual tool but dedicates the bulk of the book to the changing face of European Christianity as reflected in the use of the labyrinth, both as a symbol and as an actual part of Easter rituals in the great French and Italian cathedrals. He displays mastery of a broad array of facts in disparate fields and
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Release date: 7 May 2004
ISBN-10 : 0674013638 | ISBN-13: 9780674013636
Release date: 7 May 2004
ISBN-10 : 0674013638 | ISBN-13: 9780674013636
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