Books about Cathedrals and their building

Books about architecture

Aubert, Marcel, Romanesque Cathedrals and Abbeys of France, 1965

Bony, Jean, The English Decorated Style, 1979 

Bony, Jean, French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries, 1983

Frankl, Paul, Gothic Architecture, 1962 

Grodecki, Louis, Gothic Architecture, 1979 Harvey, 

John, The Perpendicular Style, 1978 Street, George Edmund, Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain, 1865

Von Simpson, Otto, The Gothic Cathedral, 1962 Webb, Geoffrey, Architecture in Britain:
The Middle Ages, 1956

White, John, Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250-1400, 1966

Wilson, Christopher, The Gothic Cathedral: The Architecture of the Great Church 1130-1530, 1990

Books about Building techniques 

Andrews, Francis B., The Medieval Builder, 1974 

Coldstream, Nicola, Masons and Sculptors, 1991 

Fitchen, John, The Construction of GothicCathedrals, 1961

Gille, Bertrand, Engineers of the Renaissance, 1964

Gimpel, Jean, The Cathedral Builders, trans. Teresa Waugh, 1983

Gimpel, Jean, La Révolution industrielle du Moyen Age, 1975

Harvey, John, English Medieval Architects (2nd ed.), 1987

Harvey, John, The Medieval Architect, 1972

Knoop, Douglas, and G. P. Jones, The Medieval Mason, 1933 and 1949

Recht, Roland, Les Bâtisseurs des cathédrales gothiques, 1989

Salzman, Louis Francis, Building in England down to 1540, 1952

Schock-Werner, Barbara, 'L'Oeuvre Notre-Dame, histoire et organisation de la fabrique de la cathédrale de Strasbourg', in Roland Recht, Les Bâtisseurs des cathédrales gothiques, 1989

Books about Craftsmen

Barral i Altet, Xavier (ed.), Artistes, artisans et production artistique au Moyen Age, 1986-9 

Binski, Paul, Painters, 1991

Brown, Sarah, and David O'Connor, Glass-painters, 1991

Grodecki, Louis, and Catherine Brisac, Gothic Stained Glass: 1200-1300, 1985 

Harvey, John, Medieval Craftsmen, 1975

General Books 

Bagley, John Joseph, Historical Interpretation: Sources of English Medieval History, 1965 

Branner, Robert, Chartres Cathedral, 1969 

Clifton-Taylor, Alec, The Cathedrals of England, 1986

Coulton, George Gordon, Medieval Village, Manor and Monastery, 1960

Cowen, Painton, Rose Windows, 1992 

Evans, Joan (ed.), The Flowering of the Middle Ages, 1985

Evans, Joan, Life in Medieval France, 1925

Favier, Jean, John James, Yves Flamand and Jean Bernard, The World of Chartres, 1990 

Huizinga, Johan, The Waning of the Middle Ages, trans. F. Hopman, 1965

Loyn, H. R. (ed.), The Middle Ages: A Concise Encyclopaedia, 1989

McEvedy, Colin, The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History, 1961

Martindale, Andrew, Gothic Art, 1967 

Norman, Edward, The House of God: Church Architecture, Style and History, 1990

Southern, Richard William, The Making of the Middle Ages, 1953

TEXTS

Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St Denis and its Art Treasures, trans. and ed. Erwin Panofsky, (2nd ed.), 1979

Holt, Elizabeth G. (ed.), A Documentary History of Art. I. The Middle Ages, 1957
The Metrical Life of St Hugh, trans. Charles Gaston, 1986

Mortet, Victor, Recueil de textes relatifs à l'histoire de l'architecture...XIe-XIIe siècles, 1911 

Mortet, Victor and Paul Deschamps, Recueil de textes relatifs à l'histoire de l'architecture...XIIe-XIIIe siècles, 1929 

The Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, ed. Theodore Bowie, 1982

Willis, Robert, The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral, 1845 (contains a translation of Gervase's account of the rebuilding)
 

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