Mont-Saint-Michel: Stone By Stone

The most prodigious architectural creation of the Middle Ages. By what miracle do these dizzy piled-up strucutres stay I equilibrium, despite the weight and the enormous thrust exerted by stone vaults built one over another, level upon level? How did the builder, year after year, run this superhuman worksite, and always stay at the forefront of art and of technique? These are the questions that this book attempts to answer. See more