Art & Architecture

ISBN: 9780747808107
Published by : Shire Publications
Packed full of colour photographs, this little book forms the perfect introduction to medieval funerary sculpture. Sally Badham first provides an overview of the iconography and meaning of church monuments, then looks at their development, thei... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780747808312
Published by : Shire Publications
A perenially popular feature of medieval architectural decoration, these carvings site at the roofline, the gargoyle throwing rainwater clear of the building and the grotesque performing a purely decorative function. Alex Woodcock, stonemason ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409405818
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Chantries were pious foundations, through which donors, clerks or lay, male or female, endowed priests to celebrate intercessory masses for the benefit of their souls. At St Paul's Cathedral, they were first established in the late twelfth cent... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674053045
Published by : Harvard University Press
A new Latin-English edition of the Rule of Saint Benedict, which governed the lives of monks in monasteries across the medieval world. The rule, originally composed by Benedict of Nursia in the 6th century covers all aspects of organisation, w... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300110586
Published by : Yale University Press
"The English Castle" is a riveting architectural study that sets this legion of buildings in historical context, tracing their development from the Norman Conquest in 1066 through the civil wars of the 1640s. In this magnificent, compellingly ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300170498
Published by : Yale University Press
The first in-depth survey of Scotland's medieval church architecture for over a century covers buildings constructed between the early 12th century and the Reformation in 1560. From majestic cathedrals and abbeys to modest parish churches and c... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300134438
Published by : Yale University Press
Jean Fouquet was France's most important 15th-century artist, painting for the courts of Charles VII and Louis XI. His art synthesized the realistic style of Flemish arts like van Eyck with the monumentality of Florentines like Masaccio. Erik I... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300164930
Published by : Yale University Press
This handsomely produced volume examines manuscript illumination and changing conceptions of the importance of the visual in conveying religious truth following the increased emphasis placed on pastoral work at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780826423931
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
Andrew Jotischky here presents a "culinary history of monasticism", exploring monastic attitudes to food and fasting, as well as asking what monks actually ate in practice. He traces the monastic diet from the extreme asceticism of the early de... .... Learn More