Author : Thomas Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1108053319
This three-volume collection (1890-6) of medieval documents relating to Bury St Edmunds is valuable for ecclesiastical and civic history.
Author : Thomas Arnold
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 1890
Category : England
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Author : Rebecca Pinner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1783270357
An investigaton of the growth and influence of the cult of St Edmund, and how it manifested itself in medieval material culture.
Author : Antonia Gransden
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1783270268
St Edmund's Abbey was one of the most highly privileged and wealthiest religious houses in medieval England, one closely involved with the central government; its history is an integral part of English history. This book, the second of two volumes, offers a magisterial and comprehensive account of the Abbey during the latter part of the thirteenth century, based primarily on evidence in the abbey's records (over 40 registers survive). It begins with an account of the two abbots of this period, Simon of Luton and John of Northwold, who showed outstanding ability in steering the abbey through difficult times, including conflict with the Friars Minor in the town, straitened financialcircumstances (partly caused by oppressive taxation from king and pope), and domestic issues. This is followed by consideration of such matters as the abbey's mint, its economy, religious, intellectual and cultural life, and the abbey's architecture -- especially the charnel chapel constructed by John, which survives to this day. The monks' dietary regime (with examples of actual recipes from the time) is examined in a detailed appendix. Dr Antonia Gransden is former Reader at the University of Nottingham.
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 1890
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Author : John Crook
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1843836823
The cult of saints is one of the most fascinating manifestations of medieval piety. It was intensely physical; saints were believed to be present in the bodily remains that they had left on earth. Medieval shrines were created in order to protect these relics and yet to show off their spiritual worth, at the same time allowing pilgrims limited access to them. English Medieval Shrines traces the development of such structures, from the earliest cult activities at saintly tombs in the late Roman empire, through Merovingian Gaul and the Carolingian Empire, via Anglo-Saxon England, to the great shrines of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The greater part of the book is a definitive exploration, on a basis that is at once thematic and chronological, of the major saints cults of medieval England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reformation. These include the famous cults of St Cuthbert, St Swithun, and St Thomas Becket - and lesser known figures such as St Eanswyth of Folkestone or St Ecgwine of Evesham. John Crook, an independent architectural historian, archaeological consultant, and photographer, is the foremost authority on English shrines. He has published numerous books and papers on the cult of saints.
Author : Antonia Gransden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1000142914
This book presents a detailed study of a thousand years of historical writing in England. It provides an excellent useful biography and a valuable guide to the principle chronicles for each reign in England.
Author : Conrad Rudolph
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1245 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 1119077745
A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe and provides a clear analytical survey of what is happening in this major area of Western art history. The volume comprises original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars who discuss the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Part of the Blackwell Companions to Art History, A Companion to Medieval Art, Second Edition features an international and ambitious range of contributions covering reception, formalism, Gregory the Great, pilgrimage art, gender, patronage, marginalized images, the concept of spolia, manuscript illumination, stained glass, Cistercian architecture, art of the crusader states, and more. Newly revised edition of a highly successful companion, including 11 new articles Comprehensive coverage ranging from vision, materiality, and the artist through to architecture, sculpture, and painting Contains full-color illustrations throughout, plus notes on the book’s many distinguished contributors A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, Second Edition is an exciting and varied study that provides essential reading for students and teachers of Medieval art.
Author : K. S. B. Keats-Rohan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851157221
Entries on persons living in post-Conquest England (1066-1166), documented in Domesday book, pipe rolls, and Cartae Baronum. Includes Continental origins, family relationships, and descent of fees.
Author : Antonia Gransden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1351572881
This book focuses on art, palaeography, bindings and the monastic library. It is based on lectures given at the Association's Annual Conference, the 20th in the present series, which was held at Bury St Edmunds, from 16 to 20 April 1994: three specially commissioned articles are also included.
