The Cathedral of Bourges: A Witness to Judeo-Christian Dialogue in Medieval Berry

Begun in 1195, just one year after Chartres, and essentially finished thirty-seven years later, the high Gothic Cathedral of Saint Stephen at Bourges en Berry rose at an auspicious time for Jewish-Christian relations. Several factors impacted positively on the latter. Among them are Berry's pos...

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Main Author: Jennings, Margaret (Author)
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Published: Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations 2011
In: Studies in Christian-Jewish relations
Year: 2011, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: CP1-10
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