ISBN:
9789048537228
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (267 pages)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Kujawa-Holbrook, Sheryl A. [Rezension von: Harris, Barbara J., English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety, 1450-1550] 2020
Series Statement:
Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Ser
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Print version Harris, Barbara J English Aristocratic Women's Religious Patronage, 1450-1550 : The Fabric of Piety
DDC:
305.4208621
Keywords:
Women and religion-England-History
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Upper class women-England-History
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England-Church history
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Women and religion ; England ; History
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Upper class women ; England ; History
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England ; Church history
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Electronic books
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
Abstract:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Tombs: Honoring the Dead -- 2 Chantries: The Quest for Perpetual Prayers -- 3 Building for the Congregation: Roofs, Aisles, and Stained Glass -- 4 Adorning the Liturgy: Luxury Fabrics and Chapel Plate -- 5 Almshouses and Schools: Prayers and Service to the Community -- 6 Defining Themselves -- 7 Epilogue: Destruction and Survival -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 - Patrons of the Fabric of the Church -- Appendix 2 - Patrons of Tombs -- Appendix 3 - Location of Tombs in Churches -- Appendix 4 - Choice of Burial Companion -- Appendix 5 - Women Who Commissioned Chantries -- Appendix 6 - Commissions of Stained-Glass Windows -- Appendix 7 - Additions or Major Repairs to Churches -- Appendix 8 - Bequests of Vestments -- Appendix 9 - Patrons of Almshouses or Schools -- Glossary -- Select Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Illustrations -- Figure 1 - Monument of Sir Thomas Barnardiston (1503) and his widow, Dame Elizabeth (d. 1526). Church at Kedington, Suffolk. Photograph by the author, 2003. -- Figure 2 - Sir Richard Fitzlewis (1528) and his four wives*. Church at West Horndon, Essex. Commissioned by his fourth wife, Jane, née Hornby Norton Fitzlewis. Permission of the Monumental Brass Society, UK. -- Figure 3 - Ecclesiastical embroidery, Elizabeth Scrope Beaumont de Vere (1539), widow of fourteenth Earl of Oxford*. Once an enriched vestment belonging to her private chapel. She may have bequeathed it to Wivenhoe, the Essex church where she was buried. R -- Figure 4 - Westmorland altar cloth*. Figures of Ralph, the fourth Earl of Westmorland (1549) and his wife Catherine Stafford, daughter of the third Duke of Buckingham (1555). Textiles store, museum no. 35-1888. Permission of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Abstract:
Figure 5 - Altar frontal, St Catherine*. Made for the Neville family -- possibly made for Catherine Stafford (1555). Museum no. 36-1888. Permission of the Victoria and Albert Museum. -- Figure 6 - Bedingfield cup*. Hallmark 1518-19. Silver and gilt. Probably in private chapel. Museum no. M76 1947. Permission of the Victoria and Albert Museum. -- Figure 7 - Mary, Lady Dacre (c. 1576), widow of Thomas, Lord Dacre of the South (executed 1533). Permission of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada. -- Figure 8 - Mary, Lady Dacre (c. 1576), widow of Thomas, Lord Dacre, and her son Gregory (1593). Permission of the National Portrait Gallery, London. -- Figure 9 - Monument of Sir Thomas Kitson (1540), John, second Earl of Bath (1561) and Margaret Donnington Kitson Long Bourchier, Countess of Bath (1561). Hengrave, Suffolk. Photograph by the author, 2003. -- Figure 10 - Monument of Sir Richard Knightley (d. 1534) and his widow Jane Skennard Knightly (1550). Church at Fawsley, Northamptonshire. Permission of "Walwyn, www.-professor-mortiarty.com". -- Figure 11 - Sir Thomas Stathum (1470) and his two wives*. Church at Morley, Derbyshire Commissioned by his widow and second wife, Elizabeth Permission of the Monumental Brass Society, UK
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