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Author : Vanessa Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Making of Kings Lynn: Secular Buildings from the 11th to the 17th Century written by Vanessa Parker and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John McNeill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351561340
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book King's Lynn and the Fens written by John McNeill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen papers collected in this volume explore the medieval art, architecture and archaeology of King's Lynn and the Fens. They arise out of the Association's 2005 conference, and reflect its concern to engage with a broad range of monuments and themes, rather than focusing on a single major building. Within King's Lynn contributors consider the superb 14th-century enamelled drinking vessel popularly known as 'King John's Cup', the former Hanseatic 'Steelyard', the Red Mount Chapel, and the oak furnishings of the chapel of St Nicholas, while the pine standard chest from St Margaret's church is assessed in terms of the importation and distribution of similar chest across England as a whole.Outside King's Lynn there are articles on the historical manipulation of landscapes and buildings at Kirkstead, the 13th-century architecture and sculpture of Croyland Abbey, the 14th-century parish church of St Mary at Snettisham, the tomb of Sir Humphrey de Littlebury at All Saints, Holbeach, the overlooked medieval wall paintings in the Prior's Chapel at Castle Acre, and the late medieval stained glass at Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen. Finally, there are three papers that look at particular aspects of the ways in which parish churches were financed, embellished and used across the region - in terms of late-12th and early-13th-century patronage, their 12th-century deployment of architectural sculpture, and the types and arrangements of choir stalls that appeared at a parochial level during the later Middle Ages.
Author : N. J. G. Pounds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521633512
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (335 download)
Download or read book A History of the English Parish written by N. J. G. Pounds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 'grass roots' cultural history of the English parish from the earliest times to Queen Victoria.
Author : Peter Wade-Martins
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784916587
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book A Life in Norfolk's Archaeology: 1950-2016 written by Peter Wade-Martins and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal history of Peter Wade-Martins archaeological endeavour in Norfolk set within a national context. It covers the writer’s early experiences as a volunteer, the rise of field archaeology as a profession and efforts to conserve archaeological heritage.
Author : Maurice Howard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England written by Maurice Howard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building accounts, government regulation and theoretical writing on the one hand and pictorial representation on the other directed new ways of documenting the changed appearance of the buildings in which people lived, worshipped and worked. This book shows how changes of style in architecture emerged from the practical needs of building a new society through the image-making of public and private patrons in the revolutionary century between Reformation and Civil War."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Christopher Gerrard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191062111
Total Pages : 1105 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain written by Christopher Gerrard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. The Tower of London and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism and an inspiring cross-section of later medieval finds can now be seen on display in museums across England, Scotland, and Wales. Medieval institutions from Parliament and monarchy to universities are familiar to us and we come into contact with the later Middle Ages every day when we drive through a village or town, look up at the castle on the hill, visit a local church or wonder about the earthworks in the fields we see from the window of a train. The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain provides an overview of the archaeology of the later Middle Ages in Britain between AD 1066 and 1550. 61 entries, divided into 10 thematic sections, cover topics ranging from later medieval objects, human remains, archaeological science, standing buildings, and sites such as castles and monasteries, to the well-preserved relict landscapes which still survive. This is a rich and exciting period of the past and most of what we have learnt about the material culture of our medieval past has been discovered in the past two generations. This volume provides comprehensive coverage of the latest research and describes the major projects and concepts that are changing our understanding of our medieval heritage.
Author : Sandra J. McEntire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429559615
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Margery Kempe written by Sandra J. McEntire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1992, Margery Kempe looks at one of the most appealing mystics and pilgrims of 15th-century England. The book looks at Margery Kempe, and her book The Book of Margery Kempe, thought to be the first vernacular autobiography in medieval Britain. Original essays in the book examines Kempe's spirituality, cultural context, and the autobiography itself, The Book of Margery Kempe. The essays in the book represent detail literary analysis on Kempe and the critical history of her words.
Author : Margery Kempe
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840107
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Book of Margery Kempe written by Margery Kempe and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the original text in a form accessible to modern readers, with on-page glossing and a glossary of common words. The text is also accompanied by on-page annotation and commentary setting Kempe's life in the social, political and spiritual context of her time.
Author : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888448156
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Cogs, Cargoes and Commerce written by Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and published by PIMS. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a wide range of new or previously ignored sources, the authors of this volume challenge a number of long-established patterns of thought in medieval historiography. Focusing attention firmly on the basic commodities of everyday life, rather than on objects of more or less conspicuous consumption, the articles shed light on new and important aspects of the expansion of trade in northern Europe between 1150 and 1400. Eight of the articles deal with trade, transport and volumes of one or more of the most important bulk commodities of the period, and the ninth is dedicated to the development of the most important means of transport, the cargo ship."
Author : T.R. Slater
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351892754
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Church in the Medieval Town written by T.R. Slater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays explores the interaction of Church and town in the medieval period in England. Two major themes structure the book. In the first part the authors explore the social and economic dimensions of the interaction; in the second part the emphasis moves to the spaces and built forms of towns and their church buildings. The primary emphasis of the essays is upon the urban activities of the medieval Church as a set of institutions: parish, diocese, monastery, cathedral. In these various institutional roles the Church did much to shape both the origin and the development of the medieval town. In exploring themes of topography, marketing and law the authors show that the relationship of Church and town could be both mutually beneficial and a source of conflict.
Author : Lenny Salvagno
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789696305
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book The Neglected Goat: A New Method to Assess the Role of the Goat in the English Middle Ages written by Lenny Salvagno and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a combination of morphological and biometrical analyses, this book provides a new, objective and transparent methodology to distinguish between sheep and goat post cranial bones in the archaeological record. Additionally, on the basis of the newly proposed approach, it reassesses the role of the goat in medieval England.
Author : Catherine Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317042840
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe written by Catherine Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe marks the arrival of early modern material culture studies as a vibrant, fully-established field of multi-disciplinary research. The volume provides a rounded, accessible collection of work on the nature and significance of materiality in early modern Europe – a term that embraces a vast range of objects as well as addressing a wide variety of human interactions with their physical environments. This stimulating view of materiality is distinctive in asking questions about the whole material world as a context for lived experience, and the book considers material interactions at all social levels. There are 27 chapters by leading experts as well as 13 feature object studies to highlight specific items that have survived from this period (defined broadly as c.1500–c.1800). These contributions explore the things people acquired, owned, treasured, displayed and discarded, the spaces in which people used and thought about things, the social relationships which cluster around goods – between producers, vendors and consumers of various kinds – and the way knowledge travels around those circuits of connection. The content also engages with wider issues such as the relationship between public and private life, the changing connections between the sacred and the profane, or the effects of gender and social status upon lived experience. Constructed as an accessible, wide-ranging guide to research practice, the book describes and represents the methods which have been developed within various disciplines for analysing pre-modern material culture. It comprises four sections which open up the approaches of various disciplines to non-specialists: ‘Definitions, disciplines, new directions’, ‘Contexts and categories’, ‘Object studies’ and ‘Material culture in action’. This volume addresses the need for sustained, coherent comment on the state, breadth and potential of this lively new field, including the work of historians, art historians, museum curators, archaeologists, social scientists and literary scholars. It consolidates and communicates recent developments and considers how we might take forward a multi-disciplinary research agenda for the study of material culture in periods before the mass production of goods.
Author : Lynn Staley
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444709
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Book of Margery Kempe written by Lynn Staley and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 1996-12-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fresh, classroom-friendly volume, Margery Kempe, a married woman from fifteenth-century England, dictates her remarkable life story. Far from provincial, this extraordinary woman tells us about her business ventures in Lynn, her spiritual conversion and asceticism, and her travels all around Europe and the Holy Land while on pilgrimage. Kempe presents a splendidly detailed perspective of a woman from the rising middle class of the late Middle Ages, of a frequent pilgrim, and of a would-be saint gifted with spectacular crying. This edition, faithful to the original Middle English text but edited for accessibility to students, includes a gloss, notes, introduction, and a glossary, making The Book of Margery Kempe an excellent choice for any class interested in religion, gender, travel, or even daily life in late medieval Europe.
Author : Antonia Gransden
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270268
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book A History of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, 1257-1301 written by Antonia Gransden and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521431415
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (314 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Urban History of Britain written by Peter Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation.
Author : John Capgrave
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444237
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Life of Saint Katherine written by John Capgrave and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Capgrave's The Life of Saint Katherine, written c. 1463 in Lynn in Norfolk, is, according to the editor, . . . the longest and most intricate Katherine legend written during the Middle Ages, either in Latin or in any vernacular. In telling the story of the life of the virgin martyr, Katherine, Capgrave uses many of the tropes that mark the enormously popular genre of hagiography as it was written throughout the Middle Ages. Given his learning, however, and his evident acquaintance with the works of Chaucer, Lydgate, and Osburn Bokenham, and his knowledge of medieval drama, and the possibility that he knew of The Book of Margery Kempe, this saint's life should be particularly interesting to students of late Middle English culture, especially literature. In the course of his encyclopedic narrative, in which he evidently sought to appeal to a broad audience in sophisticated, if provincial, Norfolk, Capgrave inserts digressions on Greek and Roman history; on just and unjust rule and justifiable vs. unjustifiable rebellion; on child care; on medieval English feasts, jousts, and pageants; and on the role(s) of women.
Author : Catherine Richardson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781847791870
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (918 download)
Download or read book Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England written by Catherine Richardson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a theatre which self-consciously cultivated its audiences' imagination, how and what did playgoers 'see' on the stage? This book reconstructs one aspect of that imaginative process. It considers a range of printed and documentary evidence - the majority previously unpublished - for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households. It then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domesticity. It therefore offers a new method for understanding theatrical representations, based around a truly interdisciplinary study of the interaction between literary and historical methods. The plays she cites include Arden of Faversham, Two Lamentable Tragedies, A Woman Killed With Kindness, and A Yorkshire Tragedy.
