There is most certainly more literature out there, as is attested by Jan
van der Meulen's 1046-page Chartres. Sources and Literary
Interpretation: A Critical Bibliography (Boston, G.K. Hall, 1989). For a
more recent up-date, see Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz, "Recits,
programme, commanditaires, concepteurs, donateurs: publications
recentes sur l'iconographie des vitraux de la cathedrale de Chartres",
Bulletin monumental, vol. 154, no. 1 (1996), 55-71. The basic
ideas on the dating of the glass can be found summarized in the
Inventaire general's, Les vitraux de Paris, de la region parisienne, de
la Picardie et du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, CVMA France, serie
complementaire, Recensement des vitraux anciens de la France, vol.
I (Paris, 1979). The dating of the transept roses is still a hofly
contested question, and there are currently highly conflicting views
on this, ranging from c.1220 or even earlier (Francoise Perrot) to the
mid-1220s (Beat Brenk) to the mid-1230s, which to my mind is the
most likely. See also, Peter Kurmann and Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz,
"Chartres Cathedral as a Work of Artistic Integration: Methodological
Reflections," in Virginia Raguin et al., eds, Artistic Integration in
Gothic Buildings (Toronto, 1995). And good luck!
Jim Bugslag
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