In this Book
- English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety, 1450-1550: The Fabric of Piety
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Amsterdam University Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- pp. 9-12
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 13-14
- Introduction
- pp. 17-24
- 1. Tombs: Honoring the Dead
- pp. 25-50
- 6. Defining Themselves
- pp. 115-134
- 7. Epilogue: Destruction and Survival
- pp. 135-150
- Conclusion
- pp. 151-156
- Appendix 2 – Patrons of Tombs
- pp. 215-220
- Appendix 3 – Location of Tombs in Churches
- pp. 221-226
- Appendix 4 – Choice of Burial Companion
- pp. 227-228
- Appendix 8 – Bequests of Vestments
- pp. 235-238
- Select Bibliography
- pp. 247-248
- Archival Sources
- pp. 249-266
Additional Information
ISBN
9789048537228
Related ISBN(s)
9789462985988
MARC Record
OCLC
1281934435
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2021-12-15
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Copyright
2018