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English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety, 1450-1550

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 monume...

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Váldodahkki: Harris, Barbara J.
Materiálatiipa: Online
Giella:eaŋgalasgiella
Almmustuhtton: Amsterdam University Press 2021
Fáttát:
Female patronage of architecture
parish churches
Yorkist and early Tudor aristocratic women
architecture, 1450-1550
female piety
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day
Liŋkkat:https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/6550df22-fc67-4c0a-aa94-a7d111b68498
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Čoahkkáigeassu: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.

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