The art of Gothic : architecture, sculpture, painting / edited by Rolf Toman ; photography by Achim Bednorz ; [translation from German, Christian von Arnim ... ].

Introduction / Rolf Toman -- Elements of religious and secular Gothic architecture / Pablo de la Riestra -- The beginnings of Gothic architecture in France and its neighbors / Bruno Klein -- The Cathar heresy in southern France / Barbara Borngasser -- Gothic architecture in England / Ute Engel -- Medieval building practice / Christian Freigang -- Late Gothic architecture in France and the Netherlands / Peter Kurmann -- The Papal Palace in Avignon / Christian Freigang -- Gothic architecture of the "German lands" ; Gothic architecture in Scandinavia and East-Central Europe / Pablo de la Riestra -- Medieval castles, knights, and courtly love / Ehrenfried Kluckert -- Gothic architecture in Italy ; Florence and Siena : communal rivalry / Barbara Borngasser -- Medieval cities / Alick McLean -- Late Gothic architecture in Spain and Portugal / Barbara Borngasser -- Gothic sculpture in France, Italy, Germany, and England / Uwe Geese -- Gothic sculpture in Spain and Portugal / Regine Abegg -- Gothic painting ; Subjectivity, beauty and nature : medieval theories of art ; Architectural motifs in painting around 1400 ; Narrative motifs in the work of Hans Memling ; Visions of heaven and hell in the work of Hieronymus Bosch ; Gold, light and color : Konrad Kitz ; The depictions of visions and visual perception ; The path to individualism / Ehrenfried Kluckert -- Gothic stained glass / Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz -- Medieval learning and the arts / Ehrenfried Kluckert -- Gothic goldwork / Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck.