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The Good Samaritan Window, Chartress Cathedral

Trade Panels

According to Jane Welch Williams in Bread, Wine, & Money, the window of The Good Samaritan in one of the two trade windows. Welch explains that plates 11 and 13 describes the donors offering what seem small pieces of stained-glass. In these plates where donors are offering the small pieces of stained-glass is written “STTORES O,” as long if “O” is the abbreviation for Obtulerunt which altogether would be interpreted according to Welch as “Shoesmakers offered (it).” Williams also believes that the windows show two medieval classes of men, those kneeling offering the windows (the stained glass masters), and those making the windows (the shoemakers wearing “short cotto of artisans”).

Cited Work:

Jane W. Williams, Bread, Wine, & Money, Chicago: (The University of Chicago Press, 1993) 13.

The Panel of Chartres Cathedral Windows: Creation and Good Samaritan contain 24 stained-glass windows. Plates one through eleven from bottom to top depict the Story of the Good Samaritan, and the other panel thirteen to 24 depict the Story of Creation. These are the themes of the planes depicting the story of the Good Samaritan from the Gospel of Luke Chapter 10, vs. 29-37:

Plate one and two: The shoemakers are making the windows

Plate three: Donors are presenting the windows

Plate four: Jesus is telling the story of the Good Samaritan

Plate five: A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho

Plate six: The robbers are planning to attack the man

Plate seven: fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.

Plate eight: Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

Plate nine: But a Samaritan while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity.

Plate ten: Then he put him on his own animal

Plate eleven: brought him to an inn

Plate twelve: He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them.