One of three windows dedicated to St Nicholas at Chartres. The selection of episodes seems uncoordinated and almost slapdash, with several of the
miracles appearing in bay 14 and bay 29b also appearing here. In some cases the individual scenes chosen from each story also seems strange.
For example in the story of the three students murdered by an innkeeper, we see their arrival at the inn and their murder, but not the key
nucleus where St Nicholas brings them back to life. Whilst the apparent randomness of scene selection and repetition does not equal that of
the Nicholas windows at Le Mans, there would appear to be something in the episodic nature of the Vitae of St Nicholas that encouraged an
a la carte approach to visual story-telling, even within the supposedly coherent 'programme' at Chartres.
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