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Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Cambridge explores the archaeology, art, architecture of Cambridge in the Middle Ages, a city marked not only by its exceptional medieval university buildings but also by remarkable parish churches, monastic architecture and surviving glass, books and timber work.
List of contents
Medieval Cambridge: Borough, Churches, and Colleges in Their Economic and Social Context A ‘Coffin’ for St Audrey: Some Misunderstandings about Middle-Saxon Cambridge? The Late-Saxon Graveyard at Cambridge Castle and the Origins of Urbanism in Cambridge The People of Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, in the 12th Century Exploring the Changing Face of Architecture across the Long 12th Century: The Lost Anglo-Norman Churches of Augustinian Barnwell Priory and the Scattered Remains of Romanesque Cambridge The Parochial Nave in 12th-and 13th-Century Cambridgeshire Two Early Collegiate Parish Churches in Cambridge: St Michael’s and Little St Mary’s Patrons, Social Networks, and the Architecture of Collegiate Churches in and around Cambridge in the Early 14th Century An Architecture of Incumbency? Burwell and Beyond John Wastell: Architect, Genius, and All-Round Mr Fix-It Thomas Loveday and His ‘Occupation of Carpynter’s Craft’ ‘Souvent Me Souvient’: Remembering Lady Margaret Beaufort’s Painted Glass in Cambridge The Aesthetics of Change: Edward III’s Secretum Secretorum and English Manuscript Illumination of the 14th Century Common Seals? The Iconography of the Medieval Seals of Cambridge Colleges Robert Willis On Cambridge: Church, Colleges, and City Morris, Leach, Parr, and Gothic Mural Decoration in Victorian Cambridge Oxbridge in America: Archaeology, Emulation, and Disneyfication Site Reports The Anglo-Saxon Church of the Holy Trinity at Great Paxton St Bene’t, Cambridge Jesus College Chapel
About the author
Gabriel Byng holds a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Vienna and was previously a research fellow at the University of Cambridge. His first monograph, Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages, was published in 2017.
Helen Lunnon is Head of Learning at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Her fascination with the mutual influence of people, places, and things is explored in East Anglian Church Porches and their Medieval Context, published in 2020.
Summary
Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Cambridge explores the archaeology, art, architecture of Cambridge in the Middle Ages, a city marked not only by its exceptional medieval university buildings but also by remarkable parish churches, monastic architecture and surviving glass, books and timber work.
