Barbara Harris

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781041178767
• ISBN-10: 104117876X
• Artikelnr.: 75617107

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.