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...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Harris, Barbara J. 1942- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2018
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:BSB01
UBG01
Volltext
Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (266 Seiten)
ISBN:9789048537228
DOI:10.1017/9789048537228

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Volltext öffnen