Download or read book Façade as Spectacle written by Carolyn Marino Malone and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study interprets the facade of Wells Cathedral as an integral part of thirteenth-century Church liturgy and politics. The facade promoted the aims of the church of Wells, the Fourth Lateran Council, and the English Church and State following Magna Carta.