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Wingfield College and its Patrons: Piety and prestige in medieval Suffolk
P Bloore
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Description for Wingfield College and its Patrons: Piety and prestige in medieval Suffolk
Hardback. Editor(s): Bloore, Peter; Martin, Edward. Num Pages: 289 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, 27 colour illustrations, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAS; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 800.
The 650th anniversary of the foundation of Wingfield College was the occasion for a special two-day symposium marking the culmination of a three-year UEA-funded research project into the college and castle. The building projects of the late medieval aristocracy focused on their homes and the monasteries, churches or chantry foundations under their patronage where their family were buried and commemorated. This commemoration allowed a visual celebration of their achievements, status and lineage, the scale and prestige of which reflected on the fortunes of the family as a whole. Wingfield is explored in the context of both the actual ... Read more
The 650th anniversary of the foundation of Wingfield College was the occasion for a special two-day symposium marking the culmination of a three-year UEA-funded research project into the college and castle. The building projects of the late medieval aristocracy focused on their homes and the monasteries, churches or chantry foundations under their patronage where their family were buried and commemorated. This commemoration allowed a visual celebration of their achievements, status and lineage, the scale and prestige of which reflected on the fortunes of the family as a whole. Wingfield is explored in the context of both the actual ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
289
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843838326
SKU
V9781843838326
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Ref
99-50
About P Bloore
MARK BAILEY was recently High Master of St Paul's School, London, and a visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was previously a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and is now the Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. His numerous publications include Medieval Suffolk. An economic and social history 1200-1500 (2007) and After ... Read more
Reviews for Wingfield College and its Patrons: Piety and prestige in medieval Suffolk
This is a case study at its best. It is both scholarly and accessible to the general reader.
HISTORY
Impressively researched and well-illustrated.
THE RICARDIAN
The collection presents so many ways to approach the topic of a chantry college that readers will walk away understanding how richly multidimensional such institutions truly were.
THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW ... Read more
HISTORY
Impressively researched and well-illustrated.
THE RICARDIAN
The collection presents so many ways to approach the topic of a chantry college that readers will walk away understanding how richly multidimensional such institutions truly were.
THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW ... Read more