Medieval

ISBN: 9781843836599
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Focusing specifically on England - though with cognisance of broader European contexts - this volume offers an analysis of misericords in relation to other cultural artefacts of the period. Through a series of themed `case studies', the book p... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843836575
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The papers of the nineteenth-century Surveyors of the Fabric are an essential resource for anyone interested in the building and contents of Westminster Abbey. The Surveyors, Edward Blore, George Gilbert Scott and his son J .O. Scott, J. L. Pea... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521197441
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In the thirteenth century, sculptures of Synagoga and Ecclesia paired female personifications of the Synagogue defeated and the Church triumphant became a favored motif on cathedral façades in France and Germany. Nina Rowe examines the sculpt... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781857596670
Published by : Scala Publishers
This gloriously illustrated, and generously priced offering traces the architectural development of Gloucester Abbey, and subsequently Cathedral, from its beginnings as an Anglo-Saxon foundation, through its stunning remodelling following the b... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409400653
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Richly illustrated, Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France is a comprehensive investigation of church portal sculpture installed between the 1130s and the 1170s. At more than twenty great churches, beginning at the Royal Abbey of Saint... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781846822742
Published by : Four Courts Press
Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Irelands best-known castles. Illustrated in full colour, this book brings the castles architecture to the fore, placing it in the context of an expansive native lor... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781846823145
Published by : Four Courts Press
Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Irelands best-known castles. Illustrated in full colour, this book brings the castles architecture to the fore, placing it in the context of an expansive native lor... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780754660620
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
This study examines medieval architectural drawings to offer a new perspective on Gothic architectural creativity. It shows, in a series of rigorous geometrical case studies, how Gothic design evolved over time, in two senses: in the hours of t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407307442
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study examines the use of ceramic building materials in transitional architecture of the 9th-11th centuries in southeast England and northwest France, discussing parallels, and in particular asking whether the materials used were Roman spo... .... Learn More