Download or read book The Medieval Chantry Chapel written by Simon Roffey and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeological investigation into the structure of the medieval chantry chapel, with many implications for religious practice at the time. The chantry -- a special, often private, chapel within a church dedicated to a particular benefactor or benefactor's family, where prayers for the benefactor's soul were said -- was probably the most common, and also one of the most distinctive, of all late medieval religious foundations. These structures, although much altered with time, are still a very noticeable feature of many late medieval parish churches. However, no systematic, thorough or comparative examination has been undertaken to discover what they may reveal about contemporary devotion, aspiration and planning. This is a void which this book seeks to fill. It shows how the use of archaeological approaches can illuminate aspects of medieval religious practice only hinted at in many historical documents; it also demonstrates how the structural and spatial analysis of former chantry chapels can shed light on the level of private and communal piety and reveal a wider, more universal, context to chantry foundation in the medieval parish church. In addition, it discusses how various personal strategies for intercession shaped both chapel space and fabric, and the ultimate effects of the Reformation on such structures. Includes a selected gazetteer of chantry chapels. Dr SIMON ROFFEY teaches in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Winchester.
Download or read book Chantry Chapels written by Simon Roffey and published by History Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth study reveals how chantry chapels were devised as medieval strategies for the afterlife and were one of the most important and influential institutions of the medieval period.
Download or read book Mediaeval Chantries and Chantry Chapels written by George Henry Cook and published by London : Phoenix House. This book was released on 1963 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1947.
Download or read book Saving the Souls of Medieval London written by Marie-Hélène Rousseau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St Paul's Cathedral stood at the centre of religious life in medieval London. It was the mother church of the diocese, a principal landowner in the capital and surrounding countryside, and a theatre for the enactment of events of national importance. The cathedral was also a powerhouse of commemoration and intercession, where prayers and requiem masses were offered on a massive scale for the salvation of the living and the dead. This spiritual role of St Paul's Cathedral was carried out essentially by the numerous chantry priests working and living in its precinct. Chantries were pious foundations, through which donors, clerks or lay, male or female, endowed priests to celebrate intercessory masses for the benefit of their souls. At St Paul's Cathedral, they were first established in the late twelfth century and, until they were dissolved in 1548, they contributed greatly to the daily life of the cathedral. They enhanced the liturgical services offered by the cathedral, increased the number of the clerical members associated with it, and intensified relations between the cathedral and the city of London. Using the large body of material from the cathedral archives, this book investigates the chantries and their impacts on the life, services and clerical community of the cathedral, from their foundation in the early thirteenth century to the dissolution. It demonstrates the flexibility and adaptability of these pious foundations and the various contributions they made to medieval society; and sheds light on the men who played a role which, until the abolition of the chantries in 1548, was seen to be crucial to the spiritual well-being of medieval London.
Download or read book An Introduction to English Church Architecture from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century written by Francis Bond and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to English Church Architecture from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century With 1 400 Illus written by Francis Bond and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Chantries written by Alan Kreider and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chantries of medieval England were founded in the belief that intercessory masses shortened the period spent by souls in purgatory. They played a greater role in the daily life of sixteenth-century Englishmen than did monasteries, yet up to now the dissolution of the chantries has not been a popular subject of study. Alan Kreider rectifies this, establishing the importance of the chantries in the story of late medieval and Reformation England. He discusses their social and religious significance. He explains the role of purgatory in the founding of chantries and in the theological debates, popular preaching and political struggles unleashed by the Reformation that led to their confiscation. He explores the forces that led the governments of Henry VIII and Edward VI to jettison traditional practices, and he underlines the pain of state-fostered religious change.
Download or read book The Archaeological Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metamorphosis of a Death Symbol written by Kathleen Cohen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses upon the tomb with a transi image, which the author defines as 'a tomb with a representation of the deceased as a corpse, shown either nude or wrapped in a shroud', tombs that were peculiar to Northern Europe from the late fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Cohen challenges the modern view that the transi image was a mere memento mori for the living. Drawing upon 200 examples of tombs with, as well as without transi images, and upon poetry, church hymns, prayers, sermons, ceremonial texts, and wills, she demonstrates that in the course of the 15th & 16th centuries the meaning of the transi evolved, reflecting changes in religious, social and intellectual life during this period.
Download or read book William Waynflete Bishop and Educationalist written by Virginia Davis and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first modern study of William Waynflete, powerful and influential bishop of Winchester from 1447 to 1486. Waynflete was one of the great educationalists and patrons of learning of late medieval England, and his career was dominated by an interest in education. He played a leading role in some of the changes which transformed education in 15th-century England: the emergence in Oxford and Cambridge of new and larger colleges; the influence of continental humanist ideas which reshaped English thought; the introduction of the teaching of Greek; the composition of new grammars; and the introduction of printing as a means of disseminating the new learning. Through her examination of Waynflete's career, Davis challenges the received view of the gangrenous corruption of the medieval church and instead supports recent research which suggests the truth to have been far more complex. As this biography records, Waynflete himself was politically linked to Henry VI and the Lancastrian administration and most of his time was spent in southern England, However, he retained close links with his native Lincolnshire, and his committments there are also fully considered. VIRGINIA DAVIS is lecturer in history at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
Download or read book An Architectural History of the Cathedral Church of Manchester written by Joseph Stretch Crowther and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Chantries Within the County Palatine of Lancaster written by Francis Robert Raines and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Chantries Within the County Palatine of Lancaster written by Francis Robert Raines and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cathedral Antiquities written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church written by A. Hamilton Thompson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book The Historical Growth of the English Parish Church written by Alexander Hamilton Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Chantries Within the County of Lancaster Being the Reports of the Royal Commissioners of Henry VIII Edward VI and Queen Mary written by Francis Robert Raines and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
