Author: National Trust (Ickworth)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Church Treasures of West Suffolk
Author: National Trust (Ickworth)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Church Treasures of West Suffolk at Ickworth
Author: Church Treasures of West Suffolk
Author: Parish Church Treasures
Author: John GoodallPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472917650
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
An enthralling guide to the largely unrecognised treasures of England's remarkable Parish Churches, 'the supreme treasury of English vernacular art and memory'. Our parish churches constitute a living patrimony without precise European parallel. Their cultural riches are astonishing, not only for their quality and quantity, but also their diversity and interest. Fine art and architecture here combine unpredictably with the functional, the curious and the naïve, from prehistory to the present day, to form an unsung national museum which presents its contents in an everyday setting without curators or formal displays. Because church treasures usually remain in the buildings they were created for, properly interpreted they tell from thousands of local perspectives the history of the nation, its people and their changing religious observance. John Goodall's weekly series in Country Life has celebrated particular objects in or around churches that are of outstanding artistic, social or historical importance, to underline both the intrinsic interest of parish churches and the insights that they and their contents offer into English history of every period. Parish Church Treasures incorporates and significantly expands this material to tell afresh the remarkable history of the parish church. It celebrates the special character of churches as places to visit whilst providing an authoritative and up-to-date history at a time when the use and upkeep of these buildings and the care of their contents is highly contentious.
West Suffolk
Author: H. R. BarkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
East Anglian Silver, 1550-1750
Author: Christopher HartopPublisher: John Adamson Dist A/C
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This book describes a wealth of important silver articles made in the region, including a beaker by Elizabeth Haslewood, Norwich's only woman silversmith of the Stuart period, and a magnificent Charles II tankard. The essays set the silver in its historical context, presenting a fascinating perspective on everyday life.
Imported Images
Author: Kim WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture, Dutch
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Antiques
Author: The Antiquaries Journal
Author: Impolitic Bodies
Author: Sheila DelanyPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195109880
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
With this witty and elegant new book, one of our leading medievalists breaks new ground in fifteenth-century scholarship, a critical site of cultural study. Delany examines the work of English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham, a figure never before written on at any length, and fully explores the relations between history and literature in a particularly turbulent period in English history, a period extending from the "War of the Roses" through the "Hundred Years War." Delany focuses on Bokenham's major work, Legends of Holy Women--the first collection of all female saint's lives in any language--composed between 1443 and 1447. Organizing the book around the image of the body--a medieval procedure becoming popular once again in current attention to the social construction of the body--she looks at a number of major concerns. One is Bokenham's relation to the body of English literature, particularly Chaucer. Another is the entire genre of saints's lives, particularly female saints's lives, with their striking uses of the body of the saint to generate their meaning. Yet another is the image of the body politic and its importance in the political and dynastic crises of fifteenth century England. Delany draws these diverse strands together to create an innovative and readable portrait of Bokenham's work and its larger cultural and political importance, offering a host of new insights into this unjustly neglected period in English literary history.