Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9781108827454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str.

Gabriel Byng

Opis

Almost every English town and village has a parish church, but how was its construction financed and managed? This original and authoritative study explains how economic change, local politics and architectural creation combined in late-medieval England to complete one of the most demanding tasks that any parish could undertake.

Recenzje

'Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages is an engaging and significant study that sets church building - its administration and its financing - in later medieval England within the broader context of the changing economy and society of the period.' Phillipp R. Schofield, The American Historical Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Financing construction I: the parish; 2. Financing construction II: gentry and clergy; 3. Organising construction I: the churchwardens; 4. Organising construction II: contracting committees and fabric wardens; 5. Organising construction III: aristocracy, clergy and institutions; 6. Approaches to building work.