Roof Bosses in Medieval Churches
Author : Charles John Philip Cave
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Bosses (Architecture).
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Drama and Imagery in English Medieval Churches
Author : Mary Désirée Anderson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
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Book Description
Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9047430077
Book Description
Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain
Author : Clifford Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351936611
Book Description
Based in records and iconography, this book surveys medieval festival playing in Britain more comprehensively than any other work to date. The study presents an inclusive view of the drama in the British Isles, from Kilkenny to Great Yarmouth, from Scotland to Cornwall. It offers detailed readings of individual plays-including the York Creed Play, Pentecost and Corpus Christi plays and the little studied Bodley plays, among others - as well as a summary of what is known of their production. Clifford Davidson here extends the usual chronological range to include work typically categorized as early modern, enabling a juxtaposition of earlier plays with later plays to yield a better understanding of both. Complementing documentary evidence with iconographic detail and citation of music, he pinpoints a number of common misconceptions about medieval drama. By organizing the study around the rituals of the liturgical seasons, he clarifies the relationship between liturgical feast and dramatic celebration.
Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art
Author : Edward G. Tasker
Publisher : Batsford
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
Reproducing over 900 photographs taken by the author (most using natural light) this is a guide to the themes, origins, symbolism, variations and distribution of medieval church art in the British Isles.
The Angel Roofs of East Anglia
Author : Michael Rimmer
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0718843185
Book Description
Shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2016! It has been estimated that over 90% of England's figurative medieval art was obliterated in the image destruction of the Reformation. Medieval angel roofs, timber structures with spectacular and ornate carvings of angels, with a peculiar preponderance in East Anglia, were simply too difficult for Reformation iconoclasts to reach. Angel roof carvings comprise the largest surviving body of major English medieval wood sculpture. Though they areboth masterpieces of sculpture and engineering, angel roofs have been almost completely neglected by academics and art historians, because they are inaccessible, fixed and challenging to photograph. 'The Angel Roofs of East Anglia' is the first detailed historical and photographic study of the region's many medieval angel roofs. It shows the artistry and architecture of these inaccessible and little-studied medieval artworks in more detail and clarity than ever before, and explains how they were made, by whom, and why. Michael Rimmer redresses the scholarly neglect and brings the beauty, craftsmanship and history of these astonishing medieval creations to the reader. The book also offers a fascinating new answer to the question of why angel roofs are so overwhelmingly an East Anglian phenomenon, but relatively rare elsewhere in the country.
Bulletin - Museums of Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan
Author : University of Michigan. Museum of Art
Publisher : UM Libraries
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Archaeology
ISBN :
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The Lute in Britain
Author : Matthew Spring
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195188387
Book Description
"Spring focuses on the lute in Britain, but also includes two chapters devoted to continental developments: one on the transition from medieval to renaissance, the other on renaissance to baroque, and the lute in Britain is never treated in isolation. Six chapters cover all aspects of the lute's history and its music in England from 1285 to well into the eighteenth century, whilst other chapters cover the instrument's early history, the lute in consort, lute song accompaniment, the theorbo, and the lute in Scotland."--Jacket.
Churches, Cathedrals and Chapels
Author : John Wittich
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Church architecture
ISBN : 9780852441411
Book Description
Robin Hood in Popular Culture
Author : Thomas G. Hahn
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780859915649
Book Description
Studies of varied aspects of Robin Hood legends and associated topics: the greenwood, archery, outlawry, and 20c response to the legends. The Robin Hood tradition has had a continuing appeal from the middle ages to the present day, the hero himself holding a distinctive place within popular culture, his exploits, and those of his companions, being celebrated in multiple forms, from the earliest rituals, plays and ballads to musical theatre, lyric poetry, modern popular fiction, cinema and TV. The essays in this volume provide a rich and coherent perspective on this enigmatic figure and the legends which have grown up around him, offering a wide range of approaches. Topics include place-name study; examinations of surviving manuscripts and their cultural context; appraisals of the links between Robin Hood and medievalarchery; other medieval outlaws; mythic figures such as the Green Man; patterns of masculine and feminine identity; and the popularity of Robin Hood on stage and screen, in comic books and videos, and in modern Japan. There are also extended overviews of the hero's origins and status; and the future of Robin Hood studies. Professor THOMAS HAHN teaches in the Department of English at the University of Rochester, New York. Contributors: THOMAS HAHN, FRANK ABBOTT, SARAH BEACH, LAURA BLUNK, KELLY DEVRIES, R.B. DOBSON, MICHAEL EATON, KEVIN J. HARTY, STUART KANE, STEPHEN KNIGHT, DAVID LAMPE, GARY YERSHON
