The Visitation, 13th century Apsidal window at Chartres Cathedral by photographer Jill K H Geoffrion

Bibliography: Mary at Chartres

These are some of the works that have been most helpful to me. A fuller bibliography can be found in Visions of Mary: Art, Beauty and Devotion at Chartres Cathedral.

Fassler, Margot. September 1993. “Liturgy and sacred history in the twelfth-century tympana at Chartres.” Art Bulletin 75 (3):499-520.

Fassler, Margot. “Mary’s Nativity, Fulbert of Chartres, and the Stirps Jesse: Liturgical Innovation Circa 1000 and Its Afterlife “. Speculum 75, no. 2 (April 2000): 289-434.

Fassler, Margot Elisabeth. The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.

Fischer, Elizabeth L. “The Virgin of Chartres: Ritual and the Cult of the Virgin Mary at the Thirteenth-Century Cathedral of Chartres.” Bachelor of Arts, Williams Collge, 2005.

Geoffrey, Hill. 2009. “Seven Hymns to our Lady of Chartres Sept hymnes à Notre Dame de Chartres.”  Revue LISA / LISA e-journal (Vol.+VII+–+n°3):19.

Lamarre, Mark. ” The Symbolic Functions of the Enthroned Virgin in the Cathedral of Chartres.”
http://www.academia.edu/1139016/The_Symbolic_functions_of_the_Enthroned_Virgin_in_the_Cathedral_of_Chartres

Spitzer, Laura. “The Cult of the Virgin and Gothic Sculpture: Evaluating Opposition in the Chartres West Facade Capital Frieze.” Gesta 33, no. 2 (1994): 132-50.

Tripp, Judith. Poems from a Spring in Chartres.  Woodacre, CA: Circleway Books, 2004.

Wilhelm, Carolyn Mary. Remembering “the Massacre of the Innocents” in Notre Dame De Chartres Cathedral: The Art of Bringing Painful Stories to Light through Mary.  Portland, Oregon: Sacred Circle Studio, 2010.

Mary and Jesus during the visit of the Magi at Chartres Cathedral by photographer Jill K H Geoffrion
Bibliographie

Clerval, Alexandre. 1908. Petite Histoire de Notre-Dame de Chartres d’après les quatorze gravures du Triomphe de la Sainte Vierge dans l’église de Chartres. Rennes: Francis Simon.

Delaporte, Y. Les Trois Notre-Dame De La Cathédrale De Chartres: Études Suivie De La Liste Des Images De La Vierge Apartenant a La Cathédrale Et De Quelques Mots Sur Le Peleringe De Chartres.  Chartres, France: Éditions Houvet.

Jourdain, Marie-Francine. “Cathéderale De Chartres. La Vierge-Mère Dans Les Sept Verrières Absidales.” Bulletin de la Société Archeologique d’Eure-et-Loir-Supplément 75, no. 4ème trimester, 2002 (2002): 101-18.

Marchant, Jean le. Miracles De Notre-Dame De Chartres.  Chartres: Société Archéologique d’Eure-et-Loir, 1973.

Sauvanon, Jeanine. Femmes Du Moyen-Âge: Dames De Chartres.  Le Coudray: Chauveau, 1999.

Veil of Mary at Chartres Cathedral by photographer Jill K H Geoffrion