Download Full eBooks in PDF
Chronological History Of Canterbury Cathedral Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Chronological History Of Canterbury Cathedral book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : G. S.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108025268833
Author : Patrick Collinson,Nigel Ramsay,Margaret Sparks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034412588
* Full history of Britain's greatest cathedral from its Anglo-Saxon origins to the late twentieth century* Beautifully illustrated throughout* Includes the initial findings of important new excavations carried out in 1993 Seven chronological chapters cover the history of Canterbury Cathedral from 597 to the present, while a further five thematic chapters discuss the Archives and Library, the liturgy and music, the monuments within the Cathedral, and the Cathedral School. Through all the chapters runs a continuous theme: the people who have, over the centuries, made up the community of the Cathedral and have continued the tradition of Christian worship there for more than a thousand years. This is a major work of wide-ranging and original scholarship; it is also a full and highly readable history, extensively illustrated with over 160 plates and figures.
Author : Robert Willis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Cathedrals
ISBN : UOM:39015009253371
Author : David S. Neal,Warwick Rodwell
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789258424
Canterbury Cathedral possesses a unique marble mosaic pavement, dating from the early twelfth century, which has long intrigued scholars and been the subject of speculation and debate. It forms part of the floor of the Trinity chapel, adjacent to the site where the shrine of St Thomas Becket stood, prior to the Reformation. Since the mosaic is older than the chapel itself and partly destroyed a pavement of figurative roundels, laid c. 1215, it must have been moved here from elsewhere in the cathedral. This volume explores the history and archaeology of the Trinity chapel, the pavement and the physical remains of the cult of Becket, based largely on hitherto unrecorded and unpublished evidence. In the early twelfth century, Archbishop Anselm rebuilt the eastern arm of the cathedral, introducing architectural elements from his native Italy, and these included a magnificent mosaic pavement, composed of the most expensive marbles, which lay in front of the high altar. In 1170, Archbishop Becket was murdered in the cathedral, and his body rested overnight on the pavement before being buried in the crypt. Thomas was immediately revered as a martyr, and in 1173 was canonized by the pope; a simple shrine was erected over his tomb. In the following year, a fire (arson) destroyed the eastern arm of the cathedral, precipitating the construction of the present Trinity and Corona chapels, wherein St Thomas’s remains were enshrined. After decades of delay and political strife, the enshrinement took place in 1220, in the presence of Henry III. The shrine comprised a great marble table, supported on six clusters of columns. On top of the table was a marble sarcophagus containing the saint’s body in an iron-bound timber coffin, over which stood the sumptuous feretory, a gabled timber ‘roof’, plated with sheets of gold and adorned with jewels. East of the shrine lies the small Corona chapel in which a fragment of Becket’s skull was separately encased in a ‘head-shrine’, and to the west a large area was paved with forty-eight figurative stone roundels, created by French artisans. All around, stained-glass windows display the early miracles of Becket. The layout of the Trinity chapel underwent transmutations, first around 1230, when the mosaic pavement was taken up from the old presbytery, reduced in size and relaid in front of Becket’s shrine, where is it today. Second, the chapel was reordered in c. 1290, when the podium carrying the shrine was enlarged and the paving around it reconfigured. Medieval tombs were now being installed in the chapels, including those of the Black Prince and Henry IV. The end came in 1538, when Henry VIII ordered the thorough destruction of Becket’s shrines, but a great deal of archaeological evidence remained in the floors, walls and a few surviving fragments of the shrines, all now recorded and discussed in this volume for the first time.
Author : Robert Willis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368869007
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Glass painting and staining
ISBN : PRNC:32101075437960
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Canterbury (England)
ISBN : UCAL:B4073201
Author : Francis Woodman
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Architecture, Medieval
ISBN : MINN:31951001007771J
Author : Toby Huitson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781842178614
Medieval stairs, galleries and upper chambers in cathedrals, abbeys, and parish churches have been an enduring source of fascination to historians and archaeologists since the eighteenth century, but their practical purposes have long been shrouded in mystery and speculation. From libraries to lights, clocks to dovecotes, from secret games of skittles played over the vaults to the daring exploits of the twelfth-century Flying Monk, Toby Huitson explores the lofty spaces, nooks and crannies of medieval upper spaces though the interrogation of a wide range of documentary, visual and archaeological materials. Evidence is revealed for over 30 different functions during the period from around AD 1000 to 1550. Generously illustrated and fully-referenced, the text is accompanied by a set of special features and a quick-reference section, making it indispensable to all those interested in medieval history and architecture. Dr Toby Huitson teaches at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
Author : Roger D. Sell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027274175
The writing and reading of so-called literary texts can be seen as processes which are genuinely communicational. They lead, that is to say, to the growth of communities within which individuals acknowledge not only each other’s similarities but differences as well. In this new book, Roger D. Sell and his colleagues apply the communicational perspective to the past four centuries of literary activity in English. Paying detailed attention to texts – both canonical and non-canonical – by Amelia Lanyer, Thomas Coryate, John Boys, Pope, Coleridge, Arnold, Kipling, William Plomer, Auden, Walter Macken, Robert Kroetsch, Rudy Wiebe and Lyn Hejinian, the book shows how the communicational issues of addressivity, commonality, dialogicality and ethics have arisen in widely different historical contexts. At a metascholarly level, it suggests that the communicational criticism of literary texts has significant cultural, social and political roles to play in the post-postmodern era of rampant globalization.
Author : Dale Hoak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521520142
An original collection of essays on the ideas, images, and rituals of Tudor political society.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : UVA:X002613676
Author : Marian Moffett,Michael W. Fazio,Lawrence Wodehouse
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1856693716
The Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius declared firmitas, utilitas, and venustas-firmness, commodity, and delight- to be the three essential attributes of architecture. These qualities are brilliantly explored in this book, which uniquely comprises both a detailed survey of Western architecture, including Pre-Columbian America, and an introduction to architecture from the Middle East, India, Russia, China, and Japan. The text encourages readers to examine closely the pragmatic, innovative, and aesthetic attributes of buildings, and to imagine how these would have been praised or criticized by contemporary observers. Artistic, economic, environmental, political, social, and technological contexts are discussed so as to determine the extent to which buildings met the needs of clients, society at large, and future generations.
Author : James Barnaby
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783277667
The first comprehensive study of a bitter dispute which occupied the archbishops and monks of Canterbury throughout the 1180s and 1190s. For fifteen years the monks of Christ Church Canterbury waged a war against their archbishop, over a plan to build a church to provide funds for their administration, dedicated to Thomas Becket. Fearing the loss of their most beloved (and lucrative) saint to this new institution, the monks embarked on a course of action which saw rioting in the streets of Canterbury, their excommunication, and the cathedral placed under siege by the archbishop. Although at first glance an internal dispute between the archbishop and his cathedral chapter, it had a wide-ranging impact. The monks travelled thousands of miles in support of their cause, enlisting the backing of popes, cardinals, and the elites of Europe. In England, the kings during the period took a personal interest in the dispute, sometimes attempting to resolve it and sometimes hindering any chance of peace. This book, the first full account of the conflict, draws on the huge collection of letters it provoked (one of the largest compiled in the twelfth century), alongside other sources such as monastic culture, to offer a detailed narrative of this complicated feud between Archbishops Baldwin of Forde, Hubert Walter and their cathedral monks; it also considers the continuations of the dispute in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In addition, it analyses the key themes of the conflict: the role of royalty, travel, and the deployment of Thomas Becket.
Author : John Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNN:BN000645914