English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety, 1450-1550
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 monume...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
2018
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| Series: | Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
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| Online Access: | OAPEN Library: download the publication OAPEN Library: description of the publication |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (209 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9789462985988 9789048537228 |
| Access: | Open Access |