Author: Sir H. C. Maxwell LytePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Historical Notes on the Use of the Great Seal of England
Author: Sir H. C. Maxwell LytePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England
Author: Peter R. CossPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843830368
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Discussion of display through a range of artefacts and in a variety of contexts: family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and authority. Medieval culture was intensely visual. Although this has long been recognised by art historians and by enthusiasts for particular media, there has been little attempt to study social display as a subject in its own right. And yet, display takes us directly into the values, aspirations and, indeed, anxieties of past societies. In this illustrated volume a group of experts address a series of interrelated themes around the issue of display and do so in a waywhich avoids jargon and overly technical language. Among the themes are family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and authority. The media include monumental effigies, brasses, stained glass, rolls of arms, manuscripts, jewels, plate, seals and coins. Contributors: MAURICE KEEN, DAVID CROUCH, PETER COSS, CAROLINE SHENTON, ADRIAN AILES, FRÉDÉRIQUE LACHAUD, MARIAN CAMPBELL, BRIAN and MOIRA GITTOS, NIGEL SAUL, FIONN PILBROW, CAROLINE BARRON and JOHN WATTS.
Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages
Author: Phillipp R. SchofieldPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782978208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages offers an extensive overview of approaches to and the potential of sigillography, as well as introducing a wider readership to the range, interest and artistry of medieval seals. Seals were used throughout medieval society in a wide range of contexts: royal, governmental, ecclesiastical, legal, in trade and commerce and on an individual and personal level. The fourteen papers presented here, which originate from a conference held in Aberystwyth in April 2012, focus primarily on British material but there is also useful reference to continental Europe. The volume is divided into three sections looking at the history and use of seals as symbols and representations of power and prestige in a variety of institutional, dynastic and individual contexts, their role in law and legal practice, and aspects of their manufacture, sources and artistic attributes. Importantly and distinctively, the volume moves beyond the study of high status seals to consider such themes as the social and economic status of seal-makers, the nature and meaning – including reflections of deliberate wit and boastfulness – of specific motifs employed at various levels of society, and the distribution of seals in relation to the location of, for instance, religious institutions and along major routeways. In so doing, it sets out ways in which sigillography can open new pathways into the study of non-elites and their cultures in medieval society.
History
Author: The English Historical Review
Author: Mandell CreightonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The American Historical Review
Author: John Franklin JamesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
Studies and Notes Supplementary to Stubbs' Constitutional History
Author: Charles Petit-DutaillisPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719003417
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Art and Political Thought in Medieval England, C. 1150-1350
Author: Laura SlaterPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 178327333X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An exploration of how power and political society were imagined, represented and reflected on in medieval English art
Edward III
Author: W M OrmrodPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752468936
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The fifty-year reign of one of England's most charismatic leaders is assessed in this lucid and incisive work. W.M. Ormrod traces Edward's life from his birth, when the very future of the monarchy in England was under threat, to his death when he was regarded throughout Europe as the very model of an ideal monarch.
English Chantries
Author: Alan KreiderPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1620325276
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The chantries of medieval England were founded in the belief that intercessory masses shortened the period spent by souls in purgatory. They played a greater role in the daily life of sixteenth-century Englishmen than did monasteries, yet up to now the dissolution of the chantries has not been a popular subject of study. Alan Kreider rectifies this, establishing the importance of the chantries in the story of late medieval and Reformation England. He discusses their social and religious significance. He explains the role of purgatory in the founding of chantries and in the theological debates, popular preaching and political struggles unleashed by the Reformation that led to their confiscation. He explores the forces that led the governments of Henry VIII and Edward VI to jettison traditional practices, and he underlines the pain of state-fostered religious change. Book jacket.