Princes of the Church: Bishops and Their Palaces

ISBN-13: 9780367266844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 460 str.

David Rollason

Opis

This volume brings together the latest research on the importance of bishops’ palaces for social and political history, landscape history, architectural history and archaeology.  It is structured in three sections: design and function, landscape and urban context, and architectural form.

O autorze

David Rollason studied for his first degree at Balliol College, Oxford, where he sat at the feet particularly of J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, Peter Brown, and Henry Mayr-Harting; then for his PhD at the University of Birmingham, under the supervision of Wendy Davies and R. H. C. Davis, and – informally – of Philip Rahtz. After a year at the Collẻge de France, supervised by Georges Duby, he was appointed lecturer in history at the University of Durham in 1977. He retired in 2010 and remains Emeritus Professor, his most recent publication being The Power of Place: Rulers and Their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities, and Holy Places (2016) – the outcome of his 2010-13 Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.