Contents // Introduction 7 // chapter i Early Gothic 13 // Romanesque antecedents: Normandy and England 14 • Romanesque antecedents: Burgundy 20 • The beginnings of Gothic 24 • Abbot Suger’s work at St-Denis 31 • The first Gothic cathedrals 44 • Late twelfth-century variations 60 • Facades c. 1150—90 68 • Early Gothic in England 72 // England: the north 73 • England: the south-west 77 England: the south-east 82 // chapter ii Thirteenth-Century Gothic 91 // French High Gothic 92 • Early thirteenth-century regional styles in northern France: Burgundy and Normandy 114* The Rayonnant style 120 High Gothic and Rayonnant facades 129 • The architects of the great churches 140 • Germany 144 • Spain 157 • The Early English style 160 // England and the Rayonnant style 178 // chapter in Late Gothic 189 // England: the Decorated style 191 • England: the Perpendicular style 204 Central Europe 224 • The Low Countries 237 • France 248 • Italy 258 // Spain 276 // Glossary 292 Select Bibliography 295 Index 299 // Acknowledgments 304