Façade as Spectacle: Ritual and Ideology at Wells Cathedral

This interdisciplinary study interprets the facade of Wells Cathedral as an integral part of thirteenth-century Church liturgy and politics. The facade promoted the aims of the church of Wells, the Fourth Lateran Council, and the English Church and State following Magna Carta.

About the author

Carolyn Marino Malone, Ph.D. (1973), History of Art and Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley, is Associate Professor in the History of Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She has published on other English topics and Saint-Bénigne in Dijon, France.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Marino Malone
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.07.2004
• EAN: 9789004138407
• ISBN: 978-90-04-13840-7
• No. of pages: 314
• Dimensions: 169 mm x 247 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reform
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries