English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety, 1450-1550

The Fabric of Piety
0. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-94-6298-598-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 165 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

Reihe: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World

The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects that oversight, uncovering the active role they undertook in choosing designs, materials, and locations for monuments, commissioning repairs and additions to many parish churches, chantry chapels, and almshouses characteristic of the English countryside. Their preferred art, Barbara J. Harris shows, reveals their responses to the religious revolution and signifies their preferred identities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, Barbara

J. Harris, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Preface Abbreviations Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1. Tombs: Honoring the Dead Chapter 2. Chantries: The Quest for Perpetual Prayers Chapter 3. Building for the Congregation: Roofs, Aisles, and Stained Glass Chapter 4. Adorning the Liturgy: Vestments, Chapel Plate and Prayer Books Chapter 5. Almshouses and Schools: Prayers and Service to the Community Chapter 6. Defining Themselves Chapter 7. The Sequel: Destruction and Survival Conclusion Appendix 1 Women Patrons of Religious Building Appendix 2 Patrons of Tombs Appendix 3 Choice of Whom to be Buried With Appendix 4 Location of Tombs in Church Appendix 5 Patrons of Chantries Appendix 6 Patrons of Stained Glass Windows Appendix 7 Patrons of Additions or Major Repairs to Churches Appendix 8 Donors of vestments Appendix 9 Patrons of Almshouses and Schools Glossary Bibliography 133 words

Über Autor(innen)

J. Harris, Barbara
Barbara J. Harris is professor emeritus of history and women’s studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Barbara J. Harris is professor emeritus of history and women's studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.