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English aristocratic women and the fabric of piety, 1450-1550 / Barbara J. Harris.

By: Harris, Barbara J. (Barbara Jean), 1942-
Series: Gendering the late medieval and early modern world: Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.Description: 266 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm ISBN: 9789462985988.Subject(s): Women and religion -- England -- History -- To 1500 | Women and religion -- England -- History -- 16th century | Women art patrons -- England -- History -- To 1500 | Women art patrons -- England -- History -- 16th century | Upper class women -- England -- History -- To 1500 | Upper class women -- England -- History -- 16th century | Church decoration and ornament -- England -- History -- To 1500 | Church decoration and ornament -- England -- History -- 16th century | Art, Medieval -- England | Architecture, Medieval -- EnglandGeneral note: With half-title page.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Summary: "The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects that oversight, uncovering the active role they undertook in choosing designs, materials, and locations for monuments, and commissioning repairs and additions to many of the parish churches, chantry chapels, and almshouses characteristic of the English countryside. Their preferred art, Barbara J. Harris shows, reveals their responses to the religious reformation and signifies their preferred identities"--Back cover..
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