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Becket's crown : art and imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1300 / Paul Binski.

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Becket's crown : art and imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1300 / Paul Binski.

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Becket's crown : art and imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1300 / Paul Binski.

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Full title

Becket's crown : art and imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1300 / Paul Binski.

Author / Creator

Publisher

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2004.

Call Numbers

NQ726.50942/4

Record Identifier

74VKPwmr3zR3

MMS ID

991019492469702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

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...

Publication information

Publisher

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2004.

Place of Publication

Connecticut

Date Published

c2004.

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Access Conditions

State Reference Library copy: To be issued in Supervised Use Area.

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Scope and Contents

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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Full title

Becket's crown : art and imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1300 / Paul Binski.

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Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c2004.

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

NQ726.50942/4

Record Identifier

74VKPwmr3zR3

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/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

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