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Author : Christopher Woodforde
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Stained Glass in Somerset, 1250-1830 written by Christopher Woodforde and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Marks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134967500
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Stained Glass in England During the Middle Ages written by Richard Marks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993. The first modern study of the medium, this book considers stained glass in relation to architecture and other arts, and by examining contemporary documents, it throws valuable light on workshop organisation, prices and patronage.
Author : Jim Cheshire
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152612565X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Stained glass and the Victorian Gothic revival written by Jim Cheshire and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stained glass reached the height of its popularity in the Victorian period. But how did it become so popular and who was involved in this remarkable revival? The enthusiasm for these often exquisite pieces of artwork spread from specialist groups of antiquarians and architects to a much wider section of the Victorian public. By looking at stained glass from the perspective of both glass-painter and patron, and by considering how stained glass was priced, bought and sold, this enlightening study traces the emergence of the market for stained glass in Victorian England. Thus it contains new insights into the Gothic Revival and the relationship between architecture and the decorative arts. Beautifully illustrated with colour plates and black and white illustrations, this book will be valuable to those interested in stained glass and the wider world of Victorian art.
Author : Roger Sherman Loomis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691187193
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Grail written by Roger Sherman Loomis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval legend of the Grail, a tale about the search for supreme mystical experience, has never ceased to intrigue writers and scholars by its wildly variegated forms: the settings have ranged from Britain to the Punjab to the Temple of Zeus at Dodona; the Grail itself has been described as the chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper, a stone with miraculous youth-preserving virtues, a vessel containing a man's head swimming in blood; the Grail has been kept in a castle by a beautiful damsel, seen floating through the air in Arthur's palace, and used as a talisman in the East to distinguish the chaste from the unchaste. In his classic exploration of the obscurities and contradictions in the major versions of this legend, Roger Sherman Loomis shows how the Grail, once a Celtic vessel of plenty, evolved into the Christian Grail with miraculous powers. Loomis bases his argument on historical examples involving the major motifs and characters in the legends, beginning with the Arthurian legend recounted in the 1180 French poem by Chrtien de Troyes. The principal texts fall into two classes: those that relate the adventures of the knights in King Arthur's time and those that account for the Grail's removal from the Holy Land to Britain. Written with verve and wit, Loomis's book builds suspense as he proceeds from one puzzle to the next in revealing the meaning behind the Grail and its legends.
Author : Clare Haynes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351911260
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Pictures and Popery written by Clare Haynes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The part religion played in questions of national identity in early modern England is a familiar historical theme, yet little work has been done on how this worked culturally. Nowhere is this more visible than in the seeming contradiction of a militantly Protestant nation such as England, that had a high regard for Catholic art. It is this dichotomy, the tensions between art and anti-Catholicism, that forms the central investigation of this book. During the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, religious art was closely identified with idolatry, and the use of images was one of the most obvious markers of the boundary between Protestantism and Catholicism. This manifested itself in an unease about the status of the religious image in English society, which was articulated in religious tracts, anti-Catholic propaganda, polemical debate, court cases and numerous other places. In light of these attacks upon 'idolatry', the fact that a great deal of Catholic art was so highly regarded and sought after seems puzzling. By discussing English attitudes towards the works of Italian painters (including Raphael, Michelangelo and Domenichino) and the ways in which native artists sought appropriately Protestant ways of emulating them, this volume offers a fascinating perspective on the dichotomy that existed between English appreciation and disapproval of Catholic culture. By taking this cultural and artistic approach and applying it to the broader historical themes, a new and invigorating way of understanding religion and national identity is offered.
Author : Katherine L. French
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201957
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The People of the Parish written by Katherine L. French and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parish, the lowest level of hierarchy in the medieval church, was the shared responsibility of the laity and the clergy. Most Christians were baptized, went to confession, were married, and were buried in the parish church or churchyard; in addition, business, legal settlements, sociability, and entertainment brought people to the church, uniting secular and sacred concerns. In The People of the Parish, Katherine L. French contends that late medieval religion was participatory and flexible, promoting different kinds of spiritual and material involvement. The rich parish records of the small diocese of Bath and Wells include wills, court records, and detailed accounts by lay churchwardens of everyday parish activities. They reveal the differences between parishes within a single diocese that cannot be attributed to regional variation. By using these records show to the range and diversity of late medieval parish life, and a Christianity vibrant enough to accommodate differences in status, wealth, gender, and local priorities, French refines our understanding of lay attitudes toward Christianity in the two centuries before the Reformation.
Author : Warwick Rodwell
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1848022204
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Wells Cathedral written by Warwick Rodwell and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological excavation, architectural survey and historical research carried out between 1978 and 1993 have elucidated the origins and early development of Wells Cathedral. Study concentrated primarily on the cloister and its adjuncts, and excavation took place in the adjoining ‘Camery’ garden. Here lay an ancient cemetery and the foundations of a succession of demolished buildings, ranging in date from Roman to post-medieval. Collectively, these enshrined a continuous development of religious and sepulchral activity, probably from the fourth to the mid-sixteenth century; secular uses followed. Adjacent to the Camery are the springs from which Wells takes its name. The first mention of the ‘holy well’ and minster church of St Andrew is in A.D. 766. Excavation yielded a complex stratigraphic sequence, demonstrating how an anonymous late Roman mausoleum burial probably provided the raison d’être for the development of a Middle Saxon cemetery and chapel, and hence for the origins of Wells Cathedral itself in 909. The establishment of this sequence is uniquely important in the history of English cathedral archaeology and sets Wells alongside developments in continental Europe.
Author : Walpole Society (Great Britain)
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Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Annual Volume of the Walpole Society written by Walpole Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Farmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199596603
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Fifth Edition Revised written by David Farmer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned Oxford Dictionary of Saints returns in a revised and updated form, providing concise accounts of the lives, cults, and artistic associations of over 1,400 saints, from the famous to the obscure. Featuring new entries on recently canonized saints from around the world, and a new appendix on pilgrimages.
Author : British Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of California (System). Institute of Library Research
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 876 pages
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Download or read book University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967: Subjects written by University of California (System). Institute of Library Research and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James G. Clark
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843833215
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (332 download)
Download or read book The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism written by James G. Clark and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examinations of the culture - artistic, material, musical - of English monasteries in the six centuries between the Conquest and the Dissolution. The cultural remains of England's abbeys and priories have always attracted scholarly attention but too often they have been studied in isolation, appreciated only for their artistic, codicological or intellectual features and notfor the insights they offer into the patterns of life and thought - the underlying norms, values and mentalité - of the communities of men and women which made them. Indeed, the distinguished monastic historian David Knowles doubted there would ever be sufficient evidence to recover "the mentality of the ordinary cloister monk". These twelve essays challenge this view. They exploit newly catalogued and newly discovered evidence - manuscript books, wall paintings, and even the traces of original monastic music - to recover the cultural dynamics of a cross-section of male and female communities. It is often claimed that over time the cultural traditions of the monasteries were suffocated by secular trends but here it is suggested that many houses remained a major cultural force even on the verge of the Reformation. James G. Clark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. Contributors: DAVID BELL, ROGER BOWERS, JAMES CLARK, BARRIE COLLETT, MARY ERLER, G. R. EVANS, MIRIAM GILL, JOAN GREATREX, JULIAN HASELDINE, J. D. NORTH, ALAN PIPER, AND R. M. THOMSON.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art Index Retrospective written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book The Archaeological Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur James Wells
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1992 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Marks
Publisher : Pindar Press
ISBN 13 : 1915837219
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Studies in the Art and Imagery of the Middle Ages written by Richard Marks and published by Pindar Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Kelly
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Imagining the Book written by Stephen Kelly and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors discuss early printed books and manuscripts between the 14th and 16th centuries under the section headings of: 'Imagined compilers and editors', 'Imagined patrons and collectors', Imagined readings and readers' and 'Beyond the book: verbal and visual cultures'.
