Author: Roger DodsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Yorkshire Church Notes, 1619-1631
Author: Roger DodsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Record Series
Author: The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011
Author: Publisher: Douglas Richardson
ISBN: 1461045207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2635
Book Description
Interpreting Medieval Effigies
Author: Brian GittosPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789251311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This innovative study examines and analyses the wealth of evidence provided by the monumental effigies of Yorkshire, from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, including some of very high sculptural merit. More than 200 examples survive from the historic county in varying states of preservation. Together, they present a picture of the people able to afford them, at a time when the county was frequently at the forefront of national politics and administration, during the Scottish wars. Many monuments display remarkable realism, depicting people as they themselves wished to be remembered, and are accompanied by a great volume of contemporary sculptural and architectural detail. Stylistic analysis of the effigies themselves has been employed, better to understand how they relate to one another and give a firmer basis for their dating and production patterns. They are considered in relation to the history and material culture of the area at the time they were produced. A more soundly based appreciation of the sculptor's intentions and the aspirations of patrons is sought through close attention to the full extent of the visible evidence afforded by the monuments and their surroundings. The corpus is of sufficient size to permit meaningful analysis to shed light on aspects such as personal aspiration, social networks, patterns of supply and production, piety and wealth. It demonstrates the value of funerary monuments to the wider understanding of medieval society. The text will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue, making available a substantial body of research for the first time. The study considers the relationship between the monuments and related sculpture, architecture, painting, glass etc, together with contemporary documentary evidence, where it is available. This material and the underlying methodology are now available to illuminate monuments of the medieval period across the whole country. Its methods and messages extend understanding of all monuments, broadening its potential audience from the purely local to everyone concerned with medieval sculpture and church archaeology.
University Library Bulletin
Author: Cambridge University LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages
Author: Nigel SaulPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199606137
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This is a comprehensive survey of English medieval church monuments. It examines all types of monument-cross slabs, brasses, incised slabs, and sculpted effigies. It analyzes them in an historical context to show what they reveal of the self image and religious aspirations of those they commemorate.--Summary by the editor.
Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
A review of history, antiquities and topography in the county.
Yorkshire Church Notes, 1619-1631
Author: Roger DodsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Private Life of William Shakespeare
Author: Lena Cowen OrlinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192661418
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and his neighbours. The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare in Stratford as a family man. The book offers close readings of key documents associated with Shakespeare and develops a contextual understanding of the genres from which these documents emerge. It reconsiders clusters of evidence that have been held to prove some persistent biographical fables. It also shows how the histories of some of Shakespeare's neighbours illuminate aspects of his own life. Throughout, we encounter a Shakespeare who consciously and with purpose designed his life. Having witnessed the business failures of his merchant father, he determined not to follow his father's model. His early wedding freed him from craft training to pursue a literary career. His wife's work, and probably the assistance of his parents and brothers, enabled him to make the first of the property purchases that grounded his life as a gentleman. With his will, he provided for both his daughters in ways that were suitable to their circumstances; Anne Shakespeare was already protected by dower rights in the houses and lands he had acquired. His funerary monument suggests that the man of 'small Latin and less Greek' in fact had some experience of an Oxford education. Evidences are that he commissioned the monument himself.