@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt14btgtv.4,
 ISBN = {9780812247060},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14btgtv.4},
 abstract = {In the final paragraph ofMont-Saint- Michel and Chartres,¹ Henry Adams draws the complex oscillations of human history to a fine point. The book that begins, as John P. McIntyre points out, with the heights (its opening sentence, “The Archangel loved heights”) ends buried in the earth. The Gothic cathedral, its soaring vaults now “restless,” its ingenious buttresses now “vagrant,” expresses, “as no emotion had ever been expressed before” or since, the “haunting nightmares of the Church” as a “cry of human suffering.” Medieval philosophy’s drive toward universal oneness is nobly undone: its logic uncertain, its syllogisms unequal, and its},
 bookauthor = {Patricia Clare Ingham},
 booktitle = {The Medieval New: Ambivalence in an Age of Innovation},
 pages = {23--47},
 publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
 title = {Scholastic Novelties},
 year = {2015}
}