English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety, 1450-1550

• मुख्य लेखक: Harris, Barbara J. (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Amsterdam University Press 2018
• श्रृंखला: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
• विषय: Literature: history & criticism; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; Female patronage of architecture; parish churches; Yorkist and early Tudor aristocratic women; architecture, 1450-1550; female piety
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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.