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The Lithic Garden is an important addition to recent scholarship that sees Gothic churches as dynamic entities, activated by physical movement and energized by ritual and mnemonic practices-and to larger scholarly currents that explore the relation of medieval art, observation, and the natural world. By positing that the foliate friezes of canonical Gothic buildings such as Cluny III and Amiens Cathedral had their conceptual origins in the Dome of the Rock and other great Islamic monuments- newly known to Western Christians in the course of the Crusades- Doquang opens up a new field of exploration for Gothic specialists who wish to be part of art history's global turn. -- Jacqueline Jung, Yale University

Well written and persuasively argued, The Lithic Garden succeeds in bringing thoughtful, sustained consideration to an often overlooked, yet staple, motif in medieval architectural decoration. -- Robert A. Maxwell, Church History The Lithic Garden is an important addition to recent scholarship that sees Gothic churches as dynamic entities, activated by physical movement and energized by ritual and mnemonic practices-and to larger scholarly currents that explore the relation of medieval art, observation, and the natural world. By positing that the foliate friezes of canonical Gothic buildings such as Cluny III and Amiens Cathedral had their conceptual origins in the Dome of the Rock and other great Islamic monuments- newly known to Western Christians in the course of the Crusades- Doquang opens up a new field of exploration for Gothic specialists who wish to be part of art history's global turn. -- Jacqueline Jung, Yale University

The Lithic Garden is an important addition to recent scholarship that sees Gothic churches as dynamic entities, activated by physical movement and energized by ritual and mnemonic practices-and to larger scholarly currents that explore the relation of medieval art, observation, and the natural world. By positing that the foliate friezes of canonical Gothic buildings such as Cluny III and Amiens Cathedral had their conceptual origins in the Dome of the Rock and other great Islamic monuments- newly known to Western Christians in the course of the Crusades- Doquang opens up a new field of exploration for Gothic specialists who wish to be part of art history's global turn. -- Jacqueline Jung, Yale University

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Mailan S. Doquang holds a PhD in medieval architecture from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She has held lectureships at Princeton University, McGill University, and Ithaca College. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, and the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities.

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