Author: Peregrine Horden
Publisher: Ad Ilissum
ISBN: 9781912168224
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Pevsner calls it 'marvellous'. Yet the reredos of the fi fteenth-century chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, with its combination of medieval niches and statuary by George Gilbert Scott, has remained one of the unsung glories of both medieval perpendicular architecture and Victorian restoration. Informed by recent scientifi c investigation of its stonework and its surviving medieval polychromy, this volume traces for the fi rst time the entire history of the reredos in its architectural and religious context - from the phases of its medieval and early Tudor construction, through its covering up with a succession of baroque and neoclassical decorative schemes, to its uncovering andrestoration in the 1870s. The book provides a novel and revealing vantage point on the artistic, cultural and ecclesiological history of Britain across four centuries.
The Reredos of All Souls College Oxford
Author: Peregrine Horden
Publisher: Ad Ilissum
ISBN: 9781912168224
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Pevsner calls it 'marvellous'. Yet the reredos of the fi fteenth-century chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, with its combination of medieval niches and statuary by George Gilbert Scott, has remained one of the unsung glories of both medieval perpendicular architecture and Victorian restoration. Informed by recent scientifi c investigation of its stonework and its surviving medieval polychromy, this volume traces for the fi rst time the entire history of the reredos in its architectural and religious context - from the phases of its medieval and early Tudor construction, through its covering up with a succession of baroque and neoclassical decorative schemes, to its uncovering andrestoration in the 1870s. The book provides a novel and revealing vantage point on the artistic, cultural and ecclesiological history of Britain across four centuries.
Publisher: Ad Ilissum
ISBN: 9781912168224
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Pevsner calls it 'marvellous'. Yet the reredos of the fi fteenth-century chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, with its combination of medieval niches and statuary by George Gilbert Scott, has remained one of the unsung glories of both medieval perpendicular architecture and Victorian restoration. Informed by recent scientifi c investigation of its stonework and its surviving medieval polychromy, this volume traces for the fi rst time the entire history of the reredos in its architectural and religious context - from the phases of its medieval and early Tudor construction, through its covering up with a succession of baroque and neoclassical decorative schemes, to its uncovering andrestoration in the 1870s. The book provides a novel and revealing vantage point on the artistic, cultural and ecclesiological history of Britain across four centuries.
Some Notable Altars in the Church of England and the American Episcopal Church
Author: John Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Altars
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Altars
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Reredos of All Souls College Oxford
Author: Peregrine Horden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781914532023
Category : Altarpieces, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Pevsner calls it 'marvellous'. Yet the reredos of the fifteenth-century chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, with its combination of medieval niches and statuary by George Gilbert Scott, has remained one of the unsung glories of both medieval perpendicular architecture and Victorian restoration. Informed by recent scientific investigation of its stonework and its surviving medieval polychromy, this volume traces for the first time the entire history of the reredos in its architectural and religious context -- from the phases of its medieval and early Tudor construction, through its covering up with a succession of baroque and neoclassical decorative schemes, to its uncovering and restoration in the 1870s.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781914532023
Category : Altarpieces, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Pevsner calls it 'marvellous'. Yet the reredos of the fifteenth-century chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, with its combination of medieval niches and statuary by George Gilbert Scott, has remained one of the unsung glories of both medieval perpendicular architecture and Victorian restoration. Informed by recent scientific investigation of its stonework and its surviving medieval polychromy, this volume traces for the first time the entire history of the reredos in its architectural and religious context -- from the phases of its medieval and early Tudor construction, through its covering up with a succession of baroque and neoclassical decorative schemes, to its uncovering and restoration in the 1870s.
The Warden's Punishment Book of All Souls College, Oxford
Author: Scott Mandelbrote
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0904107264
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Edition, with full notes and apparatus, of a text which sheds much light on university affairs at the time. The Warden's Punishment Book is a record of punishments imposed on the Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford, for minor infringements of the statutes and of College discipline, from its inception in 1601 until 1851. It is a uniquedocument in terms of its scope and detail among the College records of Oxford and Cambridge and provides significant insights into the daily life and personal relationships of such an institution during the early modern period. This volume presents an edition of the text of the Punishment Book, with a substantial biographical register detailing the careers of those mentioned as punishers or punished. An introduction explains the significance and context of the Punishment Book within collegiate, university, and social history. Scott Mandelbrote is Fellow, Perne Librarian, and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, he was formerly Fellow and Sub-Warden of All Souls College, Oxford; John H.R. Davis is an Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, of which he was Warden between 1995 and 2008. He is an anthropologist and was Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universityof Oxford, and, before that, at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0904107264
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Edition, with full notes and apparatus, of a text which sheds much light on university affairs at the time. The Warden's Punishment Book is a record of punishments imposed on the Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford, for minor infringements of the statutes and of College discipline, from its inception in 1601 until 1851. It is a uniquedocument in terms of its scope and detail among the College records of Oxford and Cambridge and provides significant insights into the daily life and personal relationships of such an institution during the early modern period. This volume presents an edition of the text of the Punishment Book, with a substantial biographical register detailing the careers of those mentioned as punishers or punished. An introduction explains the significance and context of the Punishment Book within collegiate, university, and social history. Scott Mandelbrote is Fellow, Perne Librarian, and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, he was formerly Fellow and Sub-Warden of All Souls College, Oxford; John H.R. Davis is an Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, of which he was Warden between 1995 and 2008. He is an anthropologist and was Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universityof Oxford, and, before that, at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
All Souls College
Author: Sir Charles Grant Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Booklovers Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The historical handbook and guide to Oxford
Author: James J. Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Appleton's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
The Argosy
Author: Charles William Wood
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Marquis of Salisbury
Author: Frederick Douglas How
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description