English Church Monuments

Author : Nigel Saul
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191550728
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages written by Nigel Saul and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages offers a comprehensive survey of English church monuments from the pre-Conquest period to the early sixteenth century. Ground-breaking in its treatment of the subject in an historical context, it explores medieval monuments both in terms of their social meaning and the role that they played in the religious strategies of the commemorated. Attention is given to the production of monuments, the pattern of their geographical distribution, the evolution of monument types, and the role of design in communicating the monument's message. A major theme is the self-representation of the commemorated as reflected in the main classes of effigy-those of the clergy, the knights and esquires, and the lesser landowner or burgess class, while the effigial monuments of women are examined from the perspective of the construction of gender. While seeking to use monuments as windows onto the experiences and lives of the commemorated, it also exploits documentary sources to show what they can tell us about the influences that helped shape the monuments. An innovative chapter looks at the construction of identity in inscriptions, showing how the liturgical role of the monument limited the opportunities for expressions of self. Nigel Saul seeks to place monuments at the very centre of medieval studies, highlighting their importance not only for the history of sculpture and design, but also for social and religious history more generally.

Author : C. B. Newham
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0141995548
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Country Church Monuments written by C. B. Newham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and Wales Deep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in parish churches. These artworks - medieval brasses and elegant marble effigies, stone tomb chests and grand mausoleums - are of great historical and cultural significance, but have, due to their relative inaccessibility, faded from accounts of our art history. Over twenty-five years, C. B. Newham FSA has visited and photographed more than eight thousand rural churches, cataloguing the monumental sculptures encountered on his quest. In Country Church Monuments, he presents 365 of the very best, each accompanied by detailed photographs, biographies of both the deceased and their sculptors and a wealth of contextual material. Many of these works commemorate famous historical figures, from scheming Tudor courtier Richard Rich to Victorian prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. But more moving are the countless others - minor aristocrats, small-time industrialists, much-loved mothers, fathers and children - who, if not for their memorials, would wholly be lost to time. As Newham blows the dust off these artworks and breathes life into the stories they tell, a new aesthetic history of rural England and Wales emerges. Country Church Monuments is a poignant record of the art we make at the borders of life and death, of our ceaseless human striving for eternity.

Author : Nigel Saul
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199606137
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages written by Nigel Saul and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive survey of English medieval church monuments. It examines all types of monument-cross slabs, brasses, incised slabs, and sculpted effigies. It analyzes them in an historical context to show what they reveal of the self image and religious aspirations of those they commemorate.--Summary by the editor.

Author : Frederick Herbert Crossley
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016042185
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Church Monuments A. D. 1150-1550; an Introduction to the Study of Tombs & Effigies of the Mediaeval Period written by Frederick Herbert Crossley and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Frederick Herbert 1868 Crossley
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781362189565
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ENGLISH CHURCH MONUMENTS A written by Frederick Herbert 1868 Crossley and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : George Clinch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old English Churches written by George Clinch and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Sherlock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351916815
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England written by Peter Sherlock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries. This book is a study of the material culture of memory in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. By interpreting the images and inscriptions on monuments to the dead, it explores how early modern people wanted to be remembered - their social vision, cultural ideals, religious beliefs and political values. Arguing that early modern English monuments were not simply formulaic statements about death and memory, Dr Sherlock instead reveals them to be deliberately crafted messages to future generations. Through careful reading of monuments he shows that much can be learned about how men and women conceived of the world around them and shifting concepts of gender, social order and the place of humans within the universe. In post-Reformation England, the dead became superior to the living, as monuments trumpeted their fame and their confidence in the resurrection. This study aims to stimulate historians to attempt to reconstruct and engage with the world view of past generations through the unique and under-utilised medium of funeral monuments. In so doing it is hoped that more light may be shed on how memory was created, controlled and contested in pre-modern society, and encourage the on-going debate about the ways in which understandings of the past shape the present and future.

Author : Brian Kemp
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780852637685
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Church Monuments written by Brian Kemp and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church monuments are memorials in various forms within the church itself (this was more prestigious than being buried in the graveyard, and so the most important people tended to have memorials inside the building). They can take the form of chest tombs, often with an effigy of the deceased atop it, and can have ornamental canopies over them, usually reflecting the architectural fashions of the time. Particularly from the sixteenth century, monuments might be recessed into the walls of the church, and might feature a bust of the deceased rather than a full effigy. There is always some form of epitaph included, and particularly from the eighteenth century, effigies were less prominent, a wall-mounted cartouche with an epitaph being more favored. Church Monuments provides a basic introduction to the subject of English church monuments. An enormous number of monuments dating from the twelfth century to the twentieth century can be seen in cathedrals and churches throughout England. In addition to making visits to these places more interesting and rewarding, taken together they make up a valuable part of the country's cultural heritage. Not only are they often important as works of art but they also throw light on many aspects of English history and life. After dealing with matters such as conservation the book considers the historical development of monuments, the changing forms and attitudes of effigies, the symbolism of death and immortality and the making of monuments. It concludes with a list of English cathedrals, churches and chapels where interesting collections of monuments can be seen, and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Matthew Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784424897
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treasures of English Churches written by Matthew Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishing in association with The National Churches Trust, this book offers a luxurious guide to the amazing architecture, art and furniture found in Churches across England.

Author : William Hastings KELKE (Rector of Drayton Reauchamp.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notices of Sepulchral Monuments in English Churches written by William Hastings KELKE (Rector of Drayton Reauchamp.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: