Becket's crown : art and imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1300 / Paul Binski.
Becket's crown : art and imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1300 / Paul Binski.
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Publisher
New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2004.
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NQ726.50942/4
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 343 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Contents
Prologue : art, imagination and authority : four paths of enquiry -- I. Edification -- 1. Canterbury : the aesthetics of martyrdom -- 2. The ascetics -- 3. Mary's great churches : Lincoln and Salisbury -- II. Sanctification -- 4. Viriditas : Ely and St. Etheldreda -- 5. The clefts of the rock : Well...
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Publisher
New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2004.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c2004.
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State Reference Library copy: To be issued in Supervised Use Area.
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Summary
"Paul Binski's new book offers a radical new perspective on English art, architecture and religious imagination during this pivotal period and explores the successes and failures of some of the most ambitious aesthetic concepts of the time. It places them in the context of the development of ideas of allegory and morality natural to the class of pa...
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Becket's crown : art and imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1300 / Paul Binski.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2004.
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NQ726.50942/4
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74VKPwmr3zR3
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ISBN
0300105096 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300105094 (cl : alk. paper)
0300105096 (cl : alk. paper)
9780300105094 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
726.509420902
MMS ID
991019492469702626