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The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800-c.1500 [Hardback]
Philippa Turner(Editor); Jane Hawkes(Editor); Jane Hawkes(Contributor); John Munns(Contributor); Kate Thomas(Contributor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783275526
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Volume: 22
The rood was central to medieval Christianity and its visual culture: Christ's death on the cross was understood as the means by which humankind was able to gain salvation, and depictions of the cross, and Christ's death upon it,were ubiquitous.Learn More -
The Art and Science of the Church Screen in Medieval Europe: Making, Meaning, Preserving [Paperback]
Spike Bucklow(Editor); Richard Marks(Editor); Lucy Wrapson(Editor); David Griffith(Contributor); Donal Cooper(Contributor)
$34.95ISBN: 9781783275359
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Volume: 9
The churches of medieval Europe contained richly carved and painted screens, placed between the altar and the congregation; they survive in particularly high numbers in England, despite being partly dismantled during the Reformation. While these s... .... Learn More -
St Stephen's College, Westminster: A Royal Chapel and English Kingship, 1348-1548 [Hardback]
Elizabeth Biggs(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783274956
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Volume: 50
In St Stephen's College, the royally-favoured religious institution at the heart of the busy administrative world of the Palace of Westminster, church and state met and collaborated for two centuries, from its foundation to pray for the royal dead... .... Learn More -
The Friaries of Medieval London: From Foundation to Dissolution [Paperback]
Nick Holder(Author)
$25.95ISBN: 9781783274314
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Volume: 46
with contributions from Ian M. Betts, Jens Röhrkasten, Mark Samuel, and Christian Steer.
Nominated for the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award 2019
The friaries of medieval London formed an important partof the city's... .... Learn More -
St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire: Volume 1, History, Archaeology and Architecture [eBook (PDF)]
Warwick Rodwell(Author)
$0.00ISBN: 9781842176412
Published by : Oxbow Books
St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, is a redundant medieval church in the care of English Heritage. As a result of a major programme of research carried out between 1978 and 2007, it is now the most intensively studied parish church in the UK. Excavat... .... Learn More -
Crossing the Threshold: Architecture, Iconography and the Sacred Entrance [Hardback]
Madeleine Mumcuoglu(Author); Yosef Garfinkel(Author)
$80.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789250763
Published by : Oxbow Books
Every day millions of people enter public buildings of many forms and functions: Notre-Dame in Paris, Grand Central Station in New York, the British Museum in London, that are decorated with recessed doorways. None of them is likely to be aware th... .... Learn More -
Monastic Archaeology [Paperback]
Graham Keevill(Editor); Mick Aston(Editor); Teresa Hall(Editor)
$48.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781785705670
Published by : Oxbow Books
The study of monasteries has come a long way since late the late 19th century. The emphasis has shifted away from reconstructing the layouts of monastic buildings to a better understanding of the wider monastic environment. The papers in this volu... .... Learn More -
Temples and Sanctuaries in the Roman East: Religious Architecture in Syria, Iudaea/Palaestina and Provincia Arabia [Hardback]
Arthur Segal(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781842175262
Published by : Oxbow Books
This lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broad region encompas... .... Learn More -
Anglican Church-Building in London 1946-2012 [Hardback]
Michael Yelton(Author); John Salmon(Author)
$59.95ISBN: 9781904965442
Published by : Spire Books
This book is a sequel to an earlier volume by the same authors on Anglican church-building in Greater London between 1915 and 1945. In the post-war period as many as 250 new churches were built in the area, a very large corpus of ... .... Learn More -
The Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England [Hardback]
Michael Fisher(Author); A. W. N Pugin(Author)
$90.00ISBN: 9781904965404
Published by : Spire Books
Pugin's writings and buildings changed the course of British architecture. The Present State , published in 1843, is significant in marking the transition from Pugin the Gothic propagandist and polemicist to Pugin the working arc... .... Learn More
