Studies in the Art and Imagery of the Middle Ages

Book Description

Richard Marks is professor of art history at the University of York, England, and former director of the Burrell Collection in Glasgow . His primary research field is Gothic art, particularly stained glass.

This volume brings together twenty-four of Professor Marks‘ studies, focusing largely on stained glass in Medieval England. There are also a number of studies on sculpture, particularly of funerary monuments.

Contents

• Introduction
• Stained Glass : An Age of Consumption: Art for England c.1400
• Medieval Stained Glass: Recent and Future Trends in Scholarship
• Archives and the Visual Arts: Potsgrove Church, its fourteenth-century glazing and other fittings
• Cistercian Window Glass in England and Wales
• Glazing in the Romanesque parish church
• The Thirteenth-Century Glazing of Salisbury Cathedral
• The glazing of Fotheringhay Church and College
• A late mediaeval glass-painting workshop in the region of Stamford and Peterborough
• The glazing of Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey
• Wills and Windows: Documentary Evidence for the Commissioning of Stained Glass Windows in Late Medieval England
• The Reception and Display of Northern European Roundels in England
• Sir Edmund Thorp and his ancestors: the lost east window of Ashwellthorpe church (Norfolk)
• The mediaeval stained glass of Wells Cathedral
• The glazing of the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity, Tattershall, Lincs. A study of late 15th-century glass-painting workshops
• Images And Devotion: Altarpiece, Image and Devotion: Fourteenth-century sculpture at Cobham church, Kent
• The ‘Ymago Sancti Loci’ in the English Medieval Parish Church. Its Status and Function in the Liturgy and Private Devotion
• Viewing Our Lady of Pity
• A Late Medieval English Pilgrimage Cult: Master John Schorn of North Marston and Windsor
• Images of Henry VI
• Two early sixteenth-century boxwood carvings associated with the Glymes family of Bergen-op-Zoom
• Death And Commemoration
• Sir Geoffrey Luttrell and some companions: images of chivalry c.1320–50
• ‘Entumbid Right Princely’: The Beauchamp Chapel Warwick and the Politics of Interment
• The Howard Tombs at Thetford and Framlingham: new discoveries
• Two illuminated guild registers from Bedfordshire
• Index