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

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.

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

Art patronage.

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

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

Church decoration and ornament.

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

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

Church architecture.

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

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

Religious art.

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

England--Church history--15th century.

England.

England--Church history--16th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Abbreviations

Illustrations

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 Chantries

Appendix 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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).

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

This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)

ISBN:

1-003-69479-9

1-04-079218-9

90-485-3722-3

9781003694793

OCLC:

1054065154

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access