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Britain's Medieval Episcopal Thrones Charles Tracy

Britain's Medieval Episcopal Thrones von Charles Tracy

Britain's Medieval Episcopal Thrones Charles Tracy


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Zusammenfassung

This beautifully illustrated volume is the first major investigation of a subject of seminal importance in the study of church history and archaeology.

Britain's Medieval Episcopal Thrones Zusammenfassung

Britain's Medieval Episcopal Thrones Charles Tracy

This book is the first major investigation of a subject of seminal importance in the study of church history and archaeology. The two stone thrones, at Wells and Durham, the three timber monuments, at Exeter, St Davids and Hereford, and the mid-14th-century bishop's chair at Lincoln, all come under a searching empirical enquiry.

The Exeter throne is the largest and most impressive in Europe. It is a distinguished innovatory example of the English Decorated style, with antecedents passing back to the court of Edward I. It exemplifies most of the historical and formal strands that suffuse the entire book - visual appearance, distinctiveness within the building, prestige, construction, stylistic context, finance, and the patronage and personal role of the bishop himself; as well as the subtler issues of the personal and collective politics of bishop and chapter, the monument's liturgical applications, its relationship with the cathedral's relics, its symbolism and what it tells us about the aspirations of the institution within the existing ecclesiastical hierarchy.

The thrones also reveal much about the personal circumstances of an individual bishop, and where he stood on the scale of a good diocesan on the one hand, and ambitious politician on the other, as exemplified at Exeter and Durham.

The text is by the art historian, Dr Charles Tracy, a seasoned expert on church furniture both in Britain and on the continent of Europe. The chapter on the stone thrones was prepared by Andrew Budge who is currently preparing a Ph.D thesis on 'English Chantry Churches' at Birkbeck College. The polychromy authority, Eddie Sinclair, spent many hours on the scaffold to bring forward her remarkable report on the Exeter throne. Her full report is to be published online.The Exeter throne is also interpreted by the established timber conservation practitioner, Hugh Harrison, and the St Davids throne by the experienced draughtsman, Peter Ferguson. In an age of the CAD, his meticulous measured drawings of the Exeter and St Davids monuments are one of the most remarkable features of book. The architect, Paul Woodfield prepared the drawings for the Lincoln chair.

Britain's Medieval Episcopal Thrones Bewertungen

This is the first book to examine the medieval episcopal thrones that survive from the fourteenth century in Britain. The strength of this book is that a number of scholars and their expertise have been brought together to document and research a particular time period and its unique products.. * The Medieval Review *
This elegant study...offers an immense wealth of data... * Medieval Archaeology *
These remarkable symbols of episcopal authority, effectively imposing even when the bishop was not present, have now been given the extensive consideration that they so richly deserve in a book that is handsomely complemented by high-quality illustrations, many in colour, with each throne fully analysed and interpreted in meticulous, annotated measured drawings by Peter Ferguson. * The Burlington Magazine *

Über Charles Tracy

Dr Charles Tracy is a leading scholar on the history and development of medieval British church furniture. He has published widely in article and book form on British and European monuments, from choir-stalls, screens, pulpits, benches, lecterns and episcopal thrones. When he began, woodwork studies were pretty much in abeyance. Today they are attracting the interest of research students as well as the general public. Andrew Budge interrupted a career in project management to undertake a BA in Art History at the Courtauld Institute between 1999 and 2002. Following his Masters at Oxford, he is now engaged on a PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London on collegiate churches and the causes of change in architectural style in the fourteenth century.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgement
Preface

xx1. Episcopal thrones in the early-medieval church

2. The timber episcopal thrones of medieval britain
I. Exeter Cathedral
ii. St Davids Cathedral
iii. Hereford Cathedral

3. The Lincoln Cathedral bishop's chair

4. The medieval stone episcopal thrones at Wells and Durham Cathedrals, by Andrew Budge

Appendix 1. Significant items connected with the manufacture of the Exeter Cathedral bishop's throne (extracted from the fabric accounts of the Exeter Cathedral)
Appendix 2. Significant items connected with the manufacture of the Exeter Cathedral choir furnishings by Thomas of Witneys's 'high altar team' et al., 1316-1326. (Representative extracts from the general and high altar accounts of the fabric rolls of the Cathedral)
Appendix 3. The construction and assembly of the bishops' thrones at Exeter, St Davids and Hereford Cathedrals, by Hugh Harrison
Appendix 4. The medieval polychromy scheme of the Exeter Cathedral bishop's throne: a summary, by Eddie Sinclair
Appendix 5. Chudleigh, Norton and the carriage of timber for Exeter's bishop's throne, by John Allan

Index

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR009972750
9781782977827
1782977821
Britain's Medieval Episcopal Thrones Charles Tracy
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Oxbow Books
2015-01-30
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