The Unity between the East and West in Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

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  • Unity between the East and West in Mont Saint Michel and Chartres

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When Henry Adams visited Sicily, a juncture point of the East and the West, he realized that the Norman Gothic cathedral he saw there embodies the Western response to an intellectual challenge the East posed in the Middle Ages. The new revelation was woven into his book, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, where neither the Western Europe nor the Middle Ages was static or monolithic; they were on the constant move and undergoing change. What caused such dynamism was clashing and fusion of different cultures; French, Norman, Greek, Roman, Arabian and Byzantine. From among those I extract what can be called Eastern in its broadest sense and discuss it particularly in relation to Virgin, Saint Francis and Thomas Aquinus each of whom Adams admires and calls his "vehicles of anarchism and heresy" in Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres.

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