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The art and science of the church screen in medieval Europe : making, meaning, preserving /

The churches of medieval Europe contained richly carved and painted screens, placed between the altar and the congregation; they survive in particularly high numbers in England, despite being partly dismantled during the Reformation. While these screens divided "lay" from "priestly&qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bucklow, Spike (Editor), Marks, Richard Bruce (Editor), Wrapson, Lucy (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2017.
Series:Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Paul Binski
  • Framing the Rood in medieval England and Wales / Richard Marks
  • Science and the screen / Spike Bucklow
  • Towards a new methodological approach for interpreting workshop activity and dating edieval church screens / Lucy Wrapson
  • Texts and detexting on late medieval English church screens / David Griffith
  • Sacred kingship, genealogy and the late medieval rood screen: Catfield and beyond / Julian Luxford
  • West Country rood screens: construction and practice / H. Harrison and J. West
  • The polychromy of Devon screens: preliminary analytical results / Lucy Wrapson and Eddie Sinclair
  • Moving pictures on the Gothic choir screen / Jacqueline E. Jung
  • The preserving power of Calvinism: pre-Reformation chancel screens in the Netherlands / Justin E.A. Kroesen
  • Recovering the lost rood screens of medieval and Renaissance Italy / Donal Cooper
  • Choir screens and rood lofts in Scandinavian parish churches before 1300 / Ebbe Nyborg.