English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety, 1450-1550
Barbara J. Harris
- Title
- English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety, 1450-1550
- Author
- Barbara J. Harris
- ISBN
- 9789048537228
- Format
- eBook PDF
- Number of pages
- 232
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 11 - 07 - 2018
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Open Access
- Download on Open Access Platform
- Category
- Early Modern Studies
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
- Also available as
- Hardback - € 104,00
Acknowledgements
Preface
Abbreviations
Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Tombs: Honoring the Dead
Chapter 2. Chantries: The Quest for Perpetual Prayers
Chapter 3. Building for the Congregation: Roofs, Aisles, and Stained
Glass
Chapter 4. Adorning the Liturgy: Vestments, Chapel Plate and Prayer
Books
Chapter 5. Almshouses and Schools: Prayers and Service to the
Community
Chapter 6. Defining Themselves
Chapter 7. The Sequel: Destruction and Survival
Conclusion
Appendix 1 Women Patrons of Religious Building
Appendix 2 Patrons of Tombs
Appendix 3 Choice of Whom to be Buried With
Appendix 4 Location of Tombs in Church
Appendix 5 Patrons of Chantries
Appendix 6 Patrons of Stained Glass Windows
Appendix 7 Patrons of Additions or Major Repairs to Churches
Appendix 8 Donors of vestments
Appendix 9 Patrons of Almshouses and Schools
Glossary
Bibliography
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Reviews and Features
"Harris has assembled a large amount of material, and while she warns about the dangers of statistics, her selective use of them makes a compelling case for aristocratic women’s patterns and priorities in making pious bequests. [...] [The references in the book] make available to readers the raw materials that underlie her book and provide a tremendous resource for scholars to mine."
- Katherine L. French, Early Modern Women Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring 2021
"English Aristocratic Women is useful for scholars and more general readers interested in women's piety and their responses to the religious culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Readers interested in the role of women in the evolution of religious art and architecture of the period will also appreciate the author's profound insights, accessible writing, and thorough research."
- Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Anglican and Episcopal History Vol. 89, 4 (2020)
"In this deeply informative and important work of scholarship Harris demonstrates time and again that, through provision for their souls and their bodies, many aristocratic women living through the Yorkist and Tudor reigns sought to affirm in death their own vision of self-hood often denied to them in life."
- Kelcey Wilson-Lee, Church Monuments 33 (2018)
- Katherine L. French, Early Modern Women Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring 2021
"English Aristocratic Women is useful for scholars and more general readers interested in women's piety and their responses to the religious culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Readers interested in the role of women in the evolution of religious art and architecture of the period will also appreciate the author's profound insights, accessible writing, and thorough research."
- Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Anglican and Episcopal History Vol. 89, 4 (2020)
"In this deeply informative and important work of scholarship Harris demonstrates time and again that, through provision for their souls and their bodies, many aristocratic women living through the Yorkist and Tudor reigns sought to affirm in death their own vision of self-hood often denied to them in life."
- Kelcey Wilson-Lee, Church Monuments 33 (2018)
Barbara J. Harris
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 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.
Author
Barbara J. Harris
Barbara J. Harris is professor emeritus of history and women’s studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
