Author: Selby WhittinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portraits, English
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Thirteenth-century Portrait Gallery at Salisbury Cathedral
Author: Selby WhittinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portraits, English
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Thirteenth-century Portrait Gallery at Salisbury Cathedral
Author: Selby WhittinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Thirteenth-century Wall Painting of Salisbury Cathedral
Author: Matthew M. ReevePublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843833314
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Revisionist study of the wall-paintings of Salisbury Cathedral, setting them in the context of thirteenth-century religious reform.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
Author: Colum HourihanePublisher:
ISBN: 0195395360
Category : Architecture, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 4064
Book Description
This volume offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in the celebrated 'Grove Dictionary of Art' and adding hundreds of new entries, it offers students, researchers and the general public a reliable, up-to-date, and convenient resource covering this field of major importance in the development of Western history and international art and architecture.
English Medieval Industries
Author: John BlairPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780907628873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
English Medieval Industries is an authoritative modern survey of medieval crafts and their products. It is heavily illustrated by pictures of surviving objects and contemporary representations of medieval work. Each industry is approached by material (amongst others stone, tin, lead, copper, iron, brick, glass, leather, bone and wood), discussing its acquisition, working and sale as a finished product. The contributors are the leading experts in their fields. They describe the specialist work that went to make the housing, clothing, tools, vessels and ornaments of medieval people. A general bibliography provides a valuable reference tool.
Salisbury Cathedral: the West Front
Author: Tim AyersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
With a Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. One of the best-known of English cathedrals, Salisbury's West Front is its most elaborate exterior feature yet has been neglected in recent studies of the fabric; a neglect splendidly corrected in this work of multiple authorship, which surveys the detailed history of the front over 750 years. It is founded upon five years of investigation, as part of a conservation programme, and it will be of great interest to those with an affection for the Cathedral and to the student of architecture. The book also makes a major contribution to the literature of cathedral repair and conservation.
Magna Carta
Author: James Clarke HoltPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521277785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
An expanded edition of a classic study of the Magna Carta interprets the events of 1215 and the Charter itself in the context of the law, politics and administration of England and Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
The Ends of Life
Author: Keith ThomasPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199247234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values of the period, while casting incidental light on some of the perennial problems of human existence.Consideration of the origins of the modern ideal of human fulfilment and of obstacles to its realization in the early modern period frames an investigation that ranges from work, wealth, and possessions to the pleasures of friendship, family, and sociability. The cult of military prowess, the pursuit of honour and reputation, the nature of religious belief and scepticism, and the desire to be posthumously remembered are all drawn into the discussion, and the views and practices of ordinarypeople are measured against the opinions of the leading philosophers and theologians of the time.The Ends of Life offers a fresh approach to the history of early modern England, by one of the foremost historians of our time. It also provides modern readers with much food for thought on the problem of how we should live and what goals in life we should pursue.
Façade as Spectacle: Ritual and Ideology at Wells Cathedral
Author: Carolyn Marino MalonePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047405315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This interdisciplinary study interprets the façade of Wells Cathedral as an integral part of thirteenth-century Church liturgy and politics. The façade promoted the aims of the church of Wells, the Fourth Lateran Council, and the English Church and State following Magna Carta.
Gothic Sculpture, 1140-1300
Author: Paul WilliamsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300074529
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This study examines the development of Gothic sculpture throughout Europe. It discusses the most famous monuments, such as the cathedrals of Chartres, Amiens and Reims, Westminster Abbey and the Siena Duomo, and less familiar buildings in France, England, Italy, Germany, Spain and Scandinavia.