Secret Spaces: Sacred Treasuries in England 1066-1320

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-38043-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 656 g

Reihe: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

The medieval treasure house, consisting of sacristy, vestry and treasure rooms was the depository for the ecclesiastical treasure belonging to a church, holy vessels, vestments, altar hangings, candlesticks and priceless liturgical books and reliquaries. It was carefully designed to convey the message of its status and function.

A book devoted to these medieval museums which housed such precious materials is long overdue. Ironically, the interest in the objects that they conserved has often resulted in ecclesiastical treasure being removed to new museums, leaving their former places of protection in need of protection themselves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milner, Lesley

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Byzantinisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction

1 The Treasure House, Its Chambers and Function

1 Location and Function

2 Precedents of English Treasure Houses

1 Treasure Houses of the Bible

3 Hidden Assets: Conserving the Treasures of the Great Norman Monasteries, Part 1

1 Early Norman Benedictine Sacristies and Treasure Rooms

2 Cistercian Sacristies and Treasure Rooms

4 Hidden Assets: Conserving the Treasures of the Great Norman Monasteries, Part 2

1 Ely

2 Canterbury

5 Hidden Assets: Conserving the Treasures of the Great Norman Monasteries, Part 3

1 The ‘Treasury’ at Winchester Cathedral

2 The Vestiarium at Canterbury Cathedral

6 Treasure Houses of Secular Canons, Part 1

1 Old Sarum, St Osmund’s Church

2 Old Sarum, Bishop Roger’s Church

3 Hereford Cathedral

4 The Treasure House of Ripon Minster

5 The Treasure House of Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim

6 The Plans and Forms of the Treasure Houses of Ripon Minster and Trondheim Cathedral

7 Treasure Houses of Secular Canons, Part 2

1 Salisbury

2 The Treasure House of the Cathedral of Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, Northern France

3 Beverley Minster

4 Wells Cathedral

8 The Treasure Chambers of Westminster Abbey, 1245–69

1 The Treasure of Westminster Abbey

2 The 11th-Century Abbey and Church (Begun 1042)

3 Henry III’s Abbey Church at Westminster

4 Treasure Chamber 1: St Faith’s Chapel, the Sacristy of Henry III’s Church

5 Treasure Room 2: the Chapter House Crypt

6 Treasure Room 3: the Muniment Room

7 Treasure Room 4: the Sacristaria

9 The Treasure Houses of Secular Canons at Lichfield, Lincoln, and Exeter Cathedrals, c.1250–1300

1 Lichfield Cathedral Treasure House

2 Lincoln Cathedral Treasure House

3 The Treasure Houses of Exeter Cathedral

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lesley Milner, M.A. PhD. F.S.A. gained her Ph.D. at the Courtauld Institute, University of London 2015. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Since 2016 she has published in the Antiquaries Journal, the Journal of the British Archaeological Association and the Burlington Magazine.