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English Aristocratic Women's Religious Patronage, 1450-1550 : the Fabric of Piety.
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 monume...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 Tombs: Honoring the Dead; 2 Chantries: The Quest for Perpetual Prayers; 3 Building for the Congregation: Roofs, Aisles, and Stained Glass; 4 Adorning the Liturgy: Luxury Fabrics and Chapel Plate; 5 Almshouses and Schools: Prayers and Service to the Community; 6 Defining Themselves; 7 Epilogue: Destruction and Survival; Conclusion; Appendix 1
- Patrons of the Fabric of the Church; Appendix 2
- Patrons of Tombs; Appendix 3
- Location of Tombs in Churches; Appendix 4
- Choice of Burial Companion.
- Appendix 5
- Women Who Commissioned ChantriesAppendix 6
- Commissions of Stained-Glass Windows; Appendix 7
- Additions or Major Repairs to Churches; Appendix 8
- Bequests of Vestments; Appendix 9
- Patrons of Almshouses or Schools; Glossary; Select Bibliography; Archival Sources; Illustrations; Figure 1
- Monument of Sir Thomas Barnardiston (1503) and his widow, Dame Elizabeth (d. 1526). Church at Kedington, Suffolk. Photograph by the author, 2003.
- Figure 2
- Sir Richard Fitzlewis (1528) and his four wives*. Church at West Horndon, Essex. Commissioned by his fourth wife, Jane, née Hornby Norton Fitzlewis. Permission of the Monumental Brass Society, UK. Figure 3
- Ecclesiastical embroidery, Elizabeth Scrope Beaumont de Vere (1539), widow of fourteenth Earl of Oxford*. Once an enriched vestment belonging to her private chapel. She may have bequeathed it to Wivenhoe, the Essex church where she was buried. R.
- Figure 4
- Westmorland altar cloth*. Figures of Ralph, the fourth Earl of Westmorland (1549) and his wife Catherine Stafford, daughter of the third Duke of Buckingham (1555). Textiles store, museum no. 35-1888. Permission of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Figure 5
- Altar frontal, St Catherine*. Made for the Neville family; possibly made for Catherine Stafford (1555). Museum no. 36-1888. Permission of the Victoria and Albert Museum.; Figure 6
- Bedingfield cup*. Hallmark 1518-19. Silver and gilt. Probably in private chapel. Museum no. M76 1947. Permission of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
- Figure 7
- Mary, Lady Dacre (c. 1576), widow of Thomas, Lord Dacre of the South (executed 1533). Permission of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada. Figure 8
- Mary, Lady Dacre (c. 1576), widow of Thomas, Lord Dacre, and her son Gregory (1593). Permission of the National Portrait Gallery, London.; Figure 9
- Monument of Sir Thomas Kitson (1540), John, second Earl of Bath (1561) and Margaret Donnington Kitson Long Bourchier, Countess of Bath (1561). Hengrave, Suffolk. Photograph by the author, 2003.
- Figure 10
- Monument of Sir Richard Knightley (d. 1534) and his widow Jane Skennard Knightly (1550). Church at Fawsley, Northamptonshire. Permission of "Walwyn, www.-professor-mortiarty.com."