Little remains of the rich visual culture of late medieval English piety. The century and a half leading up to the Reformation had seen an unparalleled growth of devotional arts, as chapels, parish churches, and cathedrals came to be filled with images in stone, wood, alabaster, glass, embroidery, and paint of newly personalized saints, angels, and the Holy Family. But much of this fell victim to the Royal Injunctions of September 1538, when parish officials were ordered to remove images from their churches.
In this highly insightful book Sarah Stanbury explores the lost traffic in...
Little remains of the rich visual culture of late medieval English piety. The century and a half leading up to the Reformation had seen an unparall...
This is an examination of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems generally accepted as being the work of a single author: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", "Pearl", "Purity" and "Patience". It focuses on the poet's powers of physical description.
This is an examination of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems generally accepted as being the work of a single author: "Sir Gawain and th...
