English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety, 1450-1550
Author(s)
Harris, Barbara J.
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Female patronage of architecture; parish churches; Yorkist and early Tudor aristocratic women; architecture, 1450-1550; female pietyDOI
10.5117/9789462985988ISBN
9789048537228, 9789462985988, 9789048537228Publisher
Amsterdam University PressPublisher website
https://www.aup.nl/Publication date and place
2018Grantor
Imprint
Amsterdam University PressSeries
Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World,Classification
Literature: history and criticism
History and Archaeology
c 1500 onwards to present day