Stone Bible: the Cathedral of Chartres

This lecture by Edward Tingley was part of our 2013 Summer conference: The Roots of Medicine | Module IV - The Late Middle Ages.
Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries-and why was it built at such immense height and with such glorious play of light, in the soaring manner we now call Gothic?
Objectives:
- Appreciate the beauty and meaning of Chartres Cathedral.
- Examine the way medieval relate to their world.
- Understand the culture of the 12th Century, including philosophy, science, technologies, politics and religious debates.

[@tamberking4302]

Thank you for thoroughly discussing the lense of modern thinking and the issues with applying it to the past. In the study of history, it tends to be the biggest center of difficulty and hardest concepts for people to apply in study and analysis of our past. We are always trying to comprehend not only what we factually believe has happened, but also the 'why' behind it. Extraordinarily difficult to do when we are so far removed from the original context and the notion of subjective viewpoints both in the past and the present.

[@Helix3829]

Excellent presentation!

[@huahindan]

Thanks for this

[@naminea2480]

Thank you for this awesome talk.

[@atomspatch7632]

OUTSTANDING SUBBED.EDWARD TINGLEY ..🎶🌹

[@diggingdon]

Thanks Edward. Was there once, hoped to go back but cannot. Your thoughtful lecture makes up for this lack of mobility.

[@dianasitek3595]

A great critique of modern insanity. Thank you.

[@DutchCrunch333]

Wow. This talk was so prophetic. Is this the end? Yet??

[@jack22van]

Wow! Thanks for explaining all of this, would've been a shame to never hear the story...

[@DamienRowatt]

Excellent.

[@DamienRowatt]

profound

[@galleryguide9913]

One small correction; a Medieval cathedral was never a parish church. The phenomenon of the cathedral-parish is a modern one, also the Abbey of Mont St. Michel was never a cathedral, nor was Suger's abbey church which only became a cathedral in the 19th century.

[@alexandervanwyk7669]

Incredible documentary. Such a pitty no one is interest. People are not at all interested. They deliberately choose to reject their maker. May many people of mankind come to their senses, and out of the grip of the devil, before it is too late. Sin is real and the end result will lead to hell, burn with satan forever. ....unless they accepted Jesus that paid with His life, for one purpose, to set mankind free. (But they don't want to).

[@DutchCrunch333]

Here we are, the seperation has widened..

[@carmenfernandez5396]

Could you please explain what the figures under the jam figures pedestals are? I have been trying to find that information but I wasn't successfull. Thanks in any case.

[@SarahEssene]

To Chart oneself.

[@milagrosfernandez512]

Es una bendición

[@thallesvinicius2729]

14:52 19:22 20:50 22:05

[@MH-ms1dg]

28:45 I think Nuwa making man is tender too

[@doola1609]

He would be up for hate speech if he gave this talk at any modern college in America

[@KingMinosxxvi]

Honestly this guy should stop talking about other "flawed" works and just get on with it. I love Chartres . It is very, very, very special to me.. BUT if this guy has. anything worthhwile to say then I will never know.

[@colkilgore100]

Wow, talk about broad ranging dissertations. I stopped by thinking that I was going to learn about the cathedral. A half an hour in and I've yet to glean one single morsel of info...lol

[@KingMinosxxvi]

Im superior to my past self....yah okay?! how the hell do you know. generalised rhetorical assumptions are a turn off man.