| English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety, 1450-1550 Contributor(s): J. Harris, Barbara (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 9462985987 ISBN-13: 9789462985988 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press OUR PRICE: $119.79 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Women - History | Europe - Medieval - History | Women |
| Series: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (0.95 lbs) 266 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Harris shows, reveals their responses to the religious revolution and signifies their preferred identities. |