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Part One: The History (What do we know?) This brief historical introduction to the great English cathedrals explores the social, political and religious factors that inspired them, and their impact on the world at the time of their creation. Part Two: The Legacy (Why does it matter?) This second part considers the ways in which their impact has lasted and the variety of ways in which later generations have used and valued them. The book has a brief chronology at the front plus a glossary of key terms and a list of further reading at the back.

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Jon Cannon is an architectural historian who teaches undergraduate and MA courses in the departments of History of Art and Historical Studies at the University of Bristol. He has also taught courses on medieval architecture at the Universities of Oxford and Reading. He is the author of The Stones of Britain: A History of Britain Through its Geology (Constable, 2018), Medieval Church Architecture (Shire, 2014), The Secret Language of Sacred Spaces (Watkins, 2013) and Cathedral: The English Cathedrals and the World that Made Them (Constable, 2011). A lay canon, Keeper of the Fabric, at Bristol Cathedral, and an accredited lecturer for the National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, he also presented and co-wrote How to Build a Cathedral (BBC4, 2008).

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