The Art and Science of the Church Screen in Medieval Europe - Making, Meaning, Preserving

Fresh examinations of one of the most important church furnishings of the middle ages.

List of contents

Framing the Rood in medieval England and Wales - Richard Marks
Science and the screen - Spike Bucklow
Towards a new methodological approach for interpreting workshop activity and dating medieval church screens - Lucy Wrapson
Texts and detexting on late medieval English church screens - David Griffith
Sacred Kingship, Genealogy and the Late Medieval Rood Screen: Catfield and beyond - Julian Luxford
West Country rood screens: construction and practice - Hugh Harrison and Jeffrey West
The polychromy of Devon screens: preliminary analytical results - Lucy Wrapson and Eddie Sinclair
Moving pictures on the Gothic choir screen - Jacqueline E. Jung
The preserving power of Calvinism: pre-Reformation chancel screens in the Netherlands - Justin E. A. Kroesen
Recovering the lost rood screens of medieval and Renaissance Italy - Donal Cooper
Choir screens and rood lofts in Scandinavian parish churches before 1300 - Ebbe Nyborg

About the author

Spike Bucklow, Richard Marks, Lucy Wrapson

Summary

Fresh examinations of one of the most important church furnishings of the middle ages.

Product details

• Assisted by: Spike Bucklow (Editor), Richard Marks (Editor), Lucy Wrapson (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781783275359
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-535-9
• No. of pages: 360
• Weight: 888 g
• Illustrations: 62 colour, 77 b/w illus.
• Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture; Boydell Studies in Medieval Ar
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Geschichte der Architektur, Architektur: Kirchen, Sakralbauten, Architecture, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious