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The walls of medieval churches were brightly painted with religious
imagery and colourful patterns, and although often shadows of their
former selves, these paintings are among the most enigmatic art to
survive the Middle Ages. This beautifully illustrated book is an
ideal introduction to this fascinating subject. It tells the
stories behind the paintings and explains their purpose, the
subjects they showed, how they were made and by whom, and what
happened to these works of art during and after the enormous
upheavals of the Reformation. It also compares and contrasts
religious and domestic wall paintings and explores modern
approaches to their conservation and care. A comprehensive
gazetteer provides an invaluable guide to where the best British
examples can be seen. Roger Rosewell is a Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries and a leading expert on medieval wall paintings. He is
also the Features Editor of Vidimus, the online magazine about
medieval stained glass and a professional lecturer and
photographer. Educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, he has
also written Stained Glass and The Medieval Monastery for Shire.
The first major illustrated study of this unique medieval art form
for almost half a century, surveying the images and iconography
that made the medieval church a riot of colour. Highly Commended in
the Best Archaeological Book category of the 2008 British
Archaeological Awards. Wall paintings are a unique art form,
complementing, and yet distinctly separate from, other religious
imageryin churches. Unlike carvings, or stained glass windows,
their support was the structure itself, with the artist's "canvas"
the very stone and plaster of the church. They were also
monumental, often larger than life-size images forpublic audiences.
Notwithstanding their dissimilarity from other religious art, wall
paintings were also an integral part of church interiors, enhancing
devotional imagery and inspiring faith and commitment in their own
right, and providing an artistic setting for the church's sacred
rituals and public ceremonies. This book brings together, often for
the first time, many of the very best surviving examples of
medieval church wall paintings. Using newtechnologies and many
previously untried techniques, it allows us to visualize these
images as the artists originally intended. The plates are
accompanied by an authoritative and scholarly text, bringing the
imagery and iconography of the medieval church vividly to life.
ROGER ROSEWELL was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. A
former journalist, he is a Director of a private European art
foundation and the news editor of the online stained glass
magazine, VIDIMUS.
In the Middle Ages, it was thought that praying at the right shrine
could save you from just about anything, from madness and famine to
false imprisonment and even shipwreck. Kingdoms, cities, and even
individual trades had patron saints that would protect them from
misfortune and bring them wealth and prosperity, and their feast
days were celebrated with public holidays and pageants. With saints
believed to have the ear of God, veneration of figures such as St
Thomas Becket, St Cuthbert, and St Margaret brought tens of
thousands of pilgrims from all walks of life to sites across the
country. Saints, Shrines and Pilgrims takes the reader across
Britain, providing a map of the most important religious shrines
that pilgrims would travel vast distances to reach, as well as
descriptions and images of the shrines themselves. Featuring over
100 stunning photographs and a gazetteer of places to visit, it
explains the history of pilgrimage in Britain and the importance
that it played in medieval life, and describes the impact of the
unbridled assault made on pilgrimage by the Reformation.
For over a thousand years stories of Christian belief and great
moments in British history have filled the windows of our
cathedrals and parish churches. The glow of painted and stained
glass, its radiant colours and vivid pictures, has inspired
generations of audiences and artists.
This beautifully illustrated book traces the development of a
unique art from its earliest beginnings in Anglo-Saxon England to
the present day. It includes fascinating descriptions of medieval
and renaissance glass, the religious upheavals of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries which saw thousands of windows destroyed, the
rebirth of the craft in Georgian and Victorian Britain, and the
pioneering of exciting new styles and techniques by modern
artists.
Explanations of how stained glass windows are made, the secrets of
medieval glaziers, the subjects that can be seen and where the best
examples from the seventh to twenty-first centuries can be found
add to its pleasures.
Monasteries are among the most intriguing and enduring symbols of
England's medieval heritage. Simultaneously places of prayer and
spirituality, power and charity, learning and invention, illusion
and superstition, they survive today as haunting ruins, great
houses and as some of our most important cathedrals and churches.
This book examines the growth of monasticism and the different
orders of monks; the architecture and administration of
monasteries, the daily life of monks and nuns, the art of
monasteries and their libraries, their role in caring for the poor
and sick, their power and wealth, their decline and suppression,
their ruin and rescue.
Many of Britain's greatest churches, including Westminster Abbey,
Canterbury, Durham and Gloucester cathedrals were once monasteries.
So too were some of Britain's most evocative and awe-inspiring
ruins such as Fountain's Abbey in Yorkshire and Tintern Abbey in
Wales. This book tells the story of devotion, work and prayer
behind those magnificent edifices.
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