The first modern study of the medium, this book considers stained glass in relation to architecture and other arts, and by examining contemporary documents, it throws valuable light on workshop organisation, prices and patronage. `... the author offers the first scholarly and comprehensive account of one of the leading medieval figurative arts, placing the medium firmly in its social, artistic and iconographic milieu. ... This is a feast of a book,' - Sarah Brown Ricardian X`This is a magesterial work which ought to be very widely read.' - Burlington Magazine'...we may conclude that this book will amply satisfy the need the author perceived for an "up-to-date survey of the subject" - Dr Malcolm Jones,Centre for English Cultural Tradition Sheffield University.