An example.
Artistic Integration in Gothic Buildings. edited by Virginia Chieffo Raguin, Kathryn Brush, Peter Draper. (Oversize: NA5453 .A78 1995)

Books of chapters and essays related to each other with a sustained argument.
In comparison, these books are more likely to offer Thought-provoking Arguments on a topic.
Integration: a closed or open proposal? / Willibald Sauerländer -- Integration or segregation among disciplines? The Historiography of Gothic sculpture as case-study / Kathryn Brush -- From admirable tabernacle to the house of God: some theological reflections on medieval architectural integration / Bernard McGinn -- Liturgy and the monument / Roger E. Reynolds -- Durham cathedral in the Gothic era: liturgy, design, ornament / Arnold Klukas -- Suger's 'completion' of Saint-Denis / Eric C. Fernie -- 'The recollection of the past is the promise of the future.' Continuity and contextuality: Saint-Denis, Merovingians, Capetians, and Paris / William W. Clark -- Interpreting the architecture of Wells cathedral / Peter Draper -- Chartres cathedral as a work of artistic integration: methodological reflections / Peter Kurmann and Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz -- Integrated fragments and the unintegrated whole: scattered examples from Reims, Strasbourg, Chartres, and Naumburg / Willibald Sauerländer -- The Architectural and glazing context of Poitiers cathedral: a reassessment of integration / Virginia Chieffo Raguin -- The Sainte-Chapelle as a Capetian political program / Beat Brenk -- Artistic integration inside the cathedral precinct: social consensus outside? / Barbara Abou-El-Haj -- Form as social process / Brigitte Bedos-Rezak -- Artistic integration in Gothic buildings: a post-modern construct? / Madeline H. Caviness -- Towards a cultural biography of the Gothic cathedral: relections on history and art history / Brigitte Bedos-Rezak.
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