Main entry:

Crook, John, 1946-

Title & Author:

English medieval shrines / John Crook.

Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; New York : Boydell Press, 2011.

Description:

xxiv, 342 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Series:

Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture, 2045-4902

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index.
Relics, shrines, and pilgrimage -- Graves, shrines and crypts : the physical setting of saints' cults on the continent -- 'But lo! There breaks a yet more glorious day' : saints' cults in early Anglo-Saxon England -- English saints and the 'new Englishmen' : Anglo-Saxon shrines and relics after the Norman Conquest -- Into the twelfth century : from tomb to shrine -- 'Giving light to the whole house' : the new enthusiasm for saints' cults in the later twelfth century -- The legacy of Thomas Becket : the thirteenth century -- The final flowering : saints' cults in the later middle ages -- The fate of shrines at the Reformation -- Epilogue: English shrines today.

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ISBN:

9781843836827 (hardcover)
1843836823 (hardcover)

Subject:

Christian shrines England History To 1500.
Christian saints Cult England History To 1500.
Christian saints Cult.
Christian shrines.
Heiligenverehrung
Kunsthandwerk
Plastik
Reliquienschrein
Schrein.
Reliquienkult.
England.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 276916
Call No.: BIB 211485
Status: Available