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The Romanesque Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester

Author : Carolyn Heighway,Richard Bryant
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789254150

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This book was inspired by the records made by Carolyn Heighway during the thirty years when she was archaeological consultant at Gloucester Cathedral. The survival of so much of the abbey of 1089 is remarkable, and often not appreciated by the casual visitor since it is ingeniously overlaid by Gothic alterations. Since 2000, surveys have been produced which enable accurate plans and elevations to be made which clarify the late 11th and early 12th century appearance of the building; deductions have also been made from archaeological observations. Since there are almost no documents for the abbey before the 15th century which relate to construction matters, the building itself is primary evidence, and archaeology is an important element. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs, plans and measured drawings including accurate reconstructions; comparative scale plans of Worcester and Tewkesbury are also included. The late 11th-12th century church is described in detail, along with the surviving claustral buildings. There is a chapter on polychromy and on the surviving 11th-12th century sculpture, and a full bibliography. The whole is set in context by Malcolm Thurlby, who comments on the wider sources and associations.

The Romanesque Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester

Author : Carolyn Heighway,Richard Bryant
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Cathedrals
ISBN : 1789254140

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A highly illustrated volume on the history of the abbey at Gloucester cathedral.

The Romanesque Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester

Author : Carolyn Heighway,Richard Bryant
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789254174

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The Romanesque Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester by Carolyn Heighway,Richard Bryant Pdf

This book was inspired by the records made by Carolyn Heighway during the thirty years when she was archaeological consultant at Gloucester Cathedral. The survival of so much of the abbey of 1089 is remarkable, and often not appreciated by the casual visitor since it is ingeniously overlaid by Gothic alterations. Since 2000, surveys have been produced which enable accurate plans and elevations to be made which clarify the late 11th and early 12th century appearance of the building; deductions have also been made from archaeological observations. Since there are almost no documents for the abbey before the 15th century which relate to construction matters, the building itself is primary evidence, and archaeology is an important element. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs, plans and measured drawings including accurate reconstructions; comparative scale plans of Worcester and Tewkesbury are also included. The late 11th-12th century church is described in detail, along with the surviving claustral buildings. There is a chapter on polychromy and on the surviving 11th-12th century sculpture, and a full bibliography. The whole is set in context by Malcolm Thurlby, who comments on the wider sources and associations.

The History, Art, and Architecture of Gloucester Cathedral

Author : David Welander
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822006735385

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The History, Art, and Architecture of Gloucester Cathedral by David Welander Pdf

Gloucester Cathedral has a particularly fascinating and important architectural history. This comprehensive and fully illustrated study traces its development from the foundation of the first monastic house in the 7th century to the Dissolution and on to the present day.

Romanesque Saints, Shrines, and Pilgrimage

Author : John McNeill,Richard Plant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429535789

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Romanesque Saints, Shrines, and Pilgrimage by John McNeill,Richard Plant Pdf

The 23 chapters in this volume explore the material culture of sanctity in Latin Europe and the Mediterranean between c. 1000 and c. 1220, with a focus on the ways in which saints and relics were enshrined, celebrated, and displayed. Reliquary cults were particularly important during the Romanesque period, both as a means of affirming or promoting identity and as a conduit for the divine. This book covers the geography of sainthood, the development of spaces for reliquary display, the distribution of saints across cities, the use of reliquaries to draw attention to the attributes, and the virtues or miracle-working character of particular saints. Individual essays range from case studies on Verona, Hildesheim, Trondheim and Limoges, the mausoleum of Lazarus at Autun, and the patronage of Mathilda of Canossa, to reflections on local pilgrimage, the deployment of saints as physical protectors, the use of imagery where possession of a saint was disputed, island sanctuaries, and the role of Templars and Hospitallers in the promotion of relics from the Holy Land. This book will serve historians and archaeologists studying the Romanesque period, and those interested in material culture and religious practice in Latin Europe and the Mediterranean c.1000–c.1220.

Medieval Art and Architecture at Gloucester and Tewkesbury

Author : British Archaeological Association
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCAL:B4968330

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Medieval Art and Architecture at Gloucester and Tewkesbury by British Archaeological Association Pdf

Contents: The Historiography of Tewkesbury (Eric Fernie); The Architecture of the Abbey of St.Mary at Tewkesbury in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Peter Kidson); Tewkesbury Abbey: Some Recent Observations (Richard Halsey); The Elevations of the Romanesque Abbey Churches of St Mary at Tewkesbury and St Peter at Gloucester (Malcolm Thurlby); Abbot Serlo's Church at Gloucester, 1089 - 1100: Its Place in Romanesque Architecture (Christopher Wilson); The Gloucester Candlestick (Alan Borg); Early Gothic Architecture at Tewkesbury Abbey (Richard K. Morris); Ballflower work in Gloucester and its Vicinity (Richard K. Morris); The East Window at Gloucester Cathedral (Jill Kerr); Bishop Benson and his Restoration of Gloucester Cathedral 1735-1752 (T. H. Cocke).

Routledge Revivals: Medieval England (1998)

Author : Paul E. Szarmach,M. Teresa Tavormina,Joel T. Rosenthal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351666374

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval England (1998) by Paul E. Szarmach,M. Teresa Tavormina,Joel T. Rosenthal Pdf

First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.

The Architecture of Norman England

Author : Eric Fernie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0199250812

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The Architecture of Norman England by Eric Fernie Pdf

This important addition to the literature is the first overall study of the architecture of Norman England since Sir Alfred Clapham's English Romanesque Architecture after the Conquest (1934). Eric Fernie, a recognized authority on the subject, begins with an overview of the architecture ofthe period, paying special attention to the importance of the architectural evidence for an understanding of the Norman Conquest. The second part, the core of the book, is an examination of the buildings defined by their function, as castles, halls, and chamber blocks, cathedrals, abbeys, andcollegiate churches, monastic buildings, parish churches, and palace chapels. The third part is a reference guide to the elements which make up the buildings, such as apses, passages, vaults, galleries, and decorative features, and the fourth offers an account of the processes by which they wereplanned and constructed. This book contains powerful new ideas that will affect the way in which we look at and analyze these buildings.

The Formation of English Gothic

Author : Peter Draper
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300120363

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The Formation of English Gothic by Peter Draper Pdf

In this original account of architecture in England between c.1150 and c.1250, Peter Draper explores how the assimilation of new ideas from France led to an English version of Gothic architecture that was quite distinct from Gothic expression elsewhere. The author considers the great cathedrals of England (Canterbury, Wells, Salisbury, Lincoln, Ely, York, Durham, and others) as well as parish churches and secular buildings, to examine the complex interrelations between architecture and its social and political functions. Architecture was an expression of identity, Draper finds, and the unique Gothic that developed in England was one of a number of manifestations of an emerging sense of national identity. The book inquires into such topics as the role of patrons, the relationships between patrons and architects, and the wide variety of factors that contributed to the process of creating a building. With 250 illustrations, including more than 50 in color, this book offers new ways of seeing and thinking about some of England’s greatest and best-loved architecture.

Villard's Legacy

Author : Marie-Thérèse Zenner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351875806

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Villard's Legacy by Marie-Thérèse Zenner Pdf

Villard's Legacy is in memory of the celebrated iconoclastic historian, Jean Gimpel, and represents a fundamental contribution to the new AVISTA series with Ashgate Publishing. AVISTA was the brainchild of Gimpel, a genius at making the right people meet to advance knowledge through a confluence of ideas drawn equally from the practical and scholarly domains. Sixteen papers and a tribute to Gimpel underscore this confluence of technology, science and art within medieval culture. Appropriately, six papers offer new interpretations on aspects of Villard de Honnecourt's portfolio, which Gimpel rightly recognized and promoted as a unique and precious record of pre-modern technology and culture. This thirteenth-century manuscript is now known to a wider public as the earliest testimony left by a master builder in Gothic Europe. Of particular significance, for the first time in eight centuries, a Compagnon du Devoir, initiated in the same oral tradition as Villard, opens the door to interpreting these remarkable drawings. Three papers address previously ignored aspects in the construction of French and English Gothic churches, from the engineering of aerodynamic spires, to the elastic materials of vault webbing, to the social conventions of formal design. Three other contributors treat essential elements of a broader technological culture, such as the horse harness and the minting of coins, as well as the applicability of medieval technology to the modern world, in particular third world countries, a project pioneered by Gimpel. Four papers conclude the volume by treating the sciences of measure and their cultural expression in medieval Europe, embracing both the concepts of space and time, geometry as a mathematical discipline, and the graphic expression of scientific data. These interdisciplinary studies are comprehensive in chronological and geographic range, extending from the 8th to 15th centuries, from Ireland across Europe.

The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler

Author : Robert B. Patterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198797814

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The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler by Robert B. Patterson Pdf

The Earl, The Kings, And The Chronicler is the first full length biography of Robert (1088-1147), grandson of William the Conqueror and bastard eldest son of King Henry I of England. Robert could not succeed his father, but played a key role in the Anarchy against King Stephen, and had a lasting impact on British cultural and political history.

Gloucestershire

Author : David Verey,Alan Brooks
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300097336

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Gloucestershire by David Verey,Alan Brooks Pdf

Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean and its companion, Gloucestershire I: The Cotswolds, provide a lively and uniquely comprehensive guide to the architecture of Gloucestershire. Alan Brooks's extensively revised and expanded editions of David Verey's original volumes bring together the latest research on a county unusually rich in attractive and interesting buildings. The area covered lies on both sides of the River Severn, rising from flat alluvial lands to the lower slopes of the Cotswold Escarpment on the east and the rough wooded hills of the Forest of Dean on the Welsh border, with its distinctive industrial inheritance. Architecture is generally more varied and unpredictable than in the Cotswolds: stone, timber, brick and stucco all have local strongholds. The Vale is most famous for its two great churches, Gloucester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey, both Norman buildings with brilliantly inventive late medieval modifications. The other major settlement is the spa town of Cheltenham, with its fine parades of Regency terraces. Country houses include Thornbury Castle, greatest of Early Tudor private houses, timber-framed manors such as Preston Court, and the extravagantly Neo-Gothic Toddington; churches range from the enigmatic Anglo-Saxon pair at Deerhurst to Randall Wells's Arts-and-Crafts experiment at Kempley. Amongst the memorable post-war landmarks are the suspension bridges and nuclear power stations on the banks of the Severn, and Aztec West, one of the best British business parks, on the northern fringes of Bristol. Visitors and residents alike will find their understanding and enjoyment of west Gloucestershire transformed by this book.

A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World

Author : Christopher Harper-Bill,Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1843833417

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A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World by Christopher Harper-Bill,Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts Pdf

This is an introduction to the history of England and Normandy in the 11th and 12th centuries. Within the broad field of cultural history, there are discussions of language, literature, the writing of history and ecclesiastical architecture.

Digital Analysis of Vaults in English Medieval Architecture

Author : Alexandrina Buchanan,James Hillson,Nicholas Webb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351011273

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Digital Analysis of Vaults in English Medieval Architecture by Alexandrina Buchanan,James Hillson,Nicholas Webb Pdf

Medieval churches are one of the most remarkable creative and technical achievements in architectural history. The complex vaults spanning their vast interiors have fascinated both visitors and worshippers alike for over 900 years, prompting many to ask: ‘How did they do that?’ Yet very few original texts or drawings survive to explain the processes behind their design or construction. This book presents a ground-breaking new approach for analysing medieval vaulting using advanced digital technologies. Focusing on the intricately patterned rib vaulting of thirteenth and fourteenth century England, the authors re-examine a series of key sites within the history of Romanesque and Gothic Architecture, using extensive digital surveys to examine the geometries of the vaults and provide new insights into the design and construction practices of medieval masons. From the simple surfaces of eleventh-century groin vaults to the gravity-defying pendant vaults of the sixteenth century, they explore a wide range of questions including: How were medieval vaults conceived and constructed? How were ideas transferred between sites? What factors led to innovations? How can digital methods be used to enhance our understanding of medieval architectural design? Featuring over 200 high quality illustrations that bring the material and the methods used to life, Digital Analysis of Vaults in English Medieval Architecture is ideal reading for students, researchers and anyone with an interest in medieval architecture, construction history, architectural history and design, medieval geometry or digital heritage.

The Regional and Transregional in Romanesque Europe

Author : John McNeill,Richard Plant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000476118

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The Regional and Transregional in Romanesque Europe by John McNeill,Richard Plant Pdf

The Regional and Transregional in Romanesque Europe considers the historiography and usefulness of regional categories and in so doing explores the strength, durability, mutability, and geographical scope of regional and transregional phenomena in the Romanesque period. This book addresses the complex question of the significance of regions in the creation of Romanesque, particularly in relation to transregional and pan-European artistic styles and approaches. The categorization of Romanesque by region was a cornerstone of 19th- and 20th-century scholarship, albeit one vulnerable to the application of anachronistic concepts of regional identity. Individual chapters explore the generation and reception of forms, the conditions that give rise to the development of transregional styles and the agencies that cut across territorial boundaries. There are studies of regional styles in Aquitaine, Castile, Sicily, Hungary, and Scandinavia; workshops in Worms and the Welsh Marches; the transregional nature of liturgical furnishings; the cultural geography of the new monastic orders; metalworking in Hildesheim and the valley of the Meuse; and the links which connect Piemonte with Conques. The Regional and Transregional in Romanesque Europe offers a new vision of regions in the creation of Romanesque relevant to archaeologists, art historians, and historians alike.