Abbot Suger

Suger (c. 1081 - January 13, 1151), French ecclesiastic, statesman and historian, was born of a very poor, minor knightly family Flanders, at St Denis near Paris or at Toury in Beauce.

References

• Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis,. The Deeds of Louis the Fat. Translated with introduction and notes by Richard Cusimano and John Moorhead. Washington, DC : Catholic University of America Press,1992. (ISBN 0813207584)
• Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis,. The Deeds of Louis the Fat. Translated by Jean Dunbabin (Free, but has no annotations)
• Abbot Suger of St. Denis: Church and State in Early Twelfth-Century France. Grant, Lindy. Essex, UK: Addison Wesley Longman Limited, 1998. (ISBN 0582051509)
• The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture & the Medieval Concept of Order (Third Edition), Simson, Otto Van. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988. Bollingen Series XLVIII. (ISBN 0691018677)

Footnote: Suger is possibly the Father of the Gothic period, noted for his use of stained-glass windows, a central element of Gothic architecture.

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