Longthorpe Tower, Peterborough, Northamptonshire
Author: Edward Clive Rouse
Publisher:
Published: 1949
Total Pages: 10
ISBN-13:
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Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Volume 2, East Anglia, Central England and Wales
Author: Anthony Emery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 752
ISBN-13: 9780521581318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second volume of a massive, illustrated survey of the greater houses of medieval England and Wales, first published in 1996.
Landlords, Peasants and Politics in Medieval England
Author: T. H. Aston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-02
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780521031271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe articles in this book, reprinted from the journal Past and Present, are all, in different ways, concerned with the ownership of landed property in medieval England and with those who worked the land. Problems debated include those concerning the keeping intact of the great estates of the Anglo-Norman barons in the face of both inheritance claims and of political manipulation by the crown. Other articles show that the difficulties of knights and lesser gentry were no less complex, as social shifts resulted from economic developments as well as from their military role and their relationships with their overlords. The essays are of as much importance for those interested in the history of politics as to those concerned with the economy and society of medieval England.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
Author: Colum Hourihane
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 4064
ISBN-13: 0195395360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in the celebrated 'Grove Dictionary of Art' and adding hundreds of new entries, it offers students, researchers and the general public a reliable, up-to-date, and convenient resource covering this field of major importance in the development of Western history and international art and architecture.
The Medieval Castle in England and Wales
Author: Norman J. G. Pounds
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780521458283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis original and pioneering book examines the role of the castle in the Norman conquest of England and in the subsequent administration of the country. The castle is seen primarily as an instrument of peaceful administration which rarely had a garrison and was more often where the sheriff kept his files and employed his secretariat. In most cases the military significance of the castle was minimal, and only a very few ever saw military action. For the first time, the medieval castle in England is seen in a new light which will attract the general reader of history and archaeology as much as the specialist in economic and social history.
Cultural Transfers in Dispute
Author: Bee Yun
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Published: 2011-08-08
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 3593394049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur conception of cultures and cultural change has altered dramatically in recent decades: no longer do we understand cultures as isolated units; rather, we see them as hybrid formations constantly engaged in a multidirectional process of exchange and influence with other cultures. Yet the very process by which we represent these cultural transfers is itself subject to cultural, political, and ideological conditions that affect our understanding, acknowledgment, and representation of them. Built around concrete examples of controversial representations of cultural transfer from Asia, the Arab world, and Europe, Cultural Transfers in Dispute presents a critical self-reflection on the scholarly practices that underpin our attempts to study and describe other cultures.
Medieval Wall Paintings
Author: Roger Rosewell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-02-10
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 0747814570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe medieval wall paintings that remain in English churches are for the most part shadows of their former selves – the rare fragments of this beautiful art to have survived not only the Reformation but also successive waves of iconoclastic zeal and unsympathetic restoration. The whitewashed walls of most parish churches belie the riot of colour and decoration that once adorned them, but the remnants of paintings tucked into corners or rescued from later layers of paint help us to understand the role of art in medieval religion. Roger Rosewell here offers a guide to the role played by medieval wall paintings, as religious, didactic and commemorative works of art, telling the stories of those who created them and those who used them on a daily basis. He also compares and contrasts religious and domestic wall paintings, using beautiful colour photography throughout.
Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice
Author: SivToveKulbrandstad Walker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 135154912X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmploying a wide range of approaches from various disciplines, contributors to this volume explore the diverse ways in which European art and cultural practice from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries confronted, interpreted, represented and evoked the realm of the sensual. Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice investigates how the faculties of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell were made to perform in a range of guises in early modern cultural practice: as agents of indulgence and pleasure, as bearers of information on material reality, as mediators between the mind and the outer world, and even as intercessors between humans and the divine. The volume examines not only aspects of the arts of painting and sculpture but also extends into other spheres: philosophy, music and poetry, gardens, food, relics and rituals. Collectively, the essays gathered here form a survey of key debates and practices attached to the theme of the senses in Renaissance and Baroque art and cultural practice.
The Senses in Late Medieval England
Author: C. M. Woolgar
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780300118711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOxbow says: This fascinating study of how people understood and used their senses in the late medieval period draws on evidence from a range of literary texts, documents and records, as well as material culture and architectural sources.
