English aristocratic women and the fabric of piety, 1450-1550 / Barbara J. Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Barbara J. (Barbara Jean), 1942- author.

Series:

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 2.

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and religion--England--History--15th century.

Women and religion.

Women and religion--England--History--16th century.

Upper class women--England--History--15th century.

Upper class women.

Upper class women--England--History--16th century.

Religious art.

History.

Church architecture.

Church decoration and ornament.

Art patronage.

Church history.

England--Church history--15th century.

England.

England--Church history--16th century.

Art patronage--England--Religious aspects--History--15th century.

Art patronage--England--Religious aspects--History--16th century.

Church decoration and ornament--England--History--15th century.

Church decoration and ornament--England--History--16th century.

Church architecture--England--History--15th century.

Church architecture--England--History--16th century.

Religious art--England--History--15th century.

Religious art--England--History--16th century.

Genre:

Church history.

History.

Physical Description:

266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]

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, and commissioning repairs and additions to many of the parish churches, chantry chapels, and almshouses characteristic of the English countryside. Their preferred art, Barbara J. Harris shows, reveals their responses to the religious reformation and signifies their preferred identities."--Back cover.

Contents:

1 Tombs: Honoring the Dead p. 25

2 Chantries: The Quest for Perpetual Prayers p. 51

3 Building for the Congregation: Roofs, Aisles, and Stained Glass p. 71

4 Adorning the Liturgy: Luxury Fabrics and Chapel Plate p. 87

5 Almshouses and Schools: Prayers and Service to the Community p. 103

6 Defining Themselves p. 115

7 Epilogue: Destruction and Survival p. 135.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262) and index.

ISBN:

9462985987

9789462985988

OCLC:

1022498082