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1 online resource (448 pages) |
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Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs |
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Society for Medieval Archaeology monograph.
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| Contents |
Princes of the Church- Front Cover; Princes of the Church; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of plates; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction: researching the palaces of princes of the Church; Notes; PART I: Projecting images of power; Chapter 2: Thomas Wolsey as the ideal cardinal and his palace of Hampton Court; Late medieval English attitudes to the position of cardinal; Thomas Wolsey's position; The image, style of life, and palace of a cardinal; Notes; Chapter 3: Late Antique episcopal complexes: Bishop Eufrasius and his residence at Poreč (Croatia) |
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The episcopal complex at PorečThe Poreč aula; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: The political and cultural significance of the bishop's palace in medieval Italy; A long arc of change: the Italian bishop's residence, 300-1300; Outside the city; Notes; Chapter 5: 'A mere domestic life': Catherine Talbot in the Georgian episcopal home; Bishops' palaces and their cultural and social significance; Catherine Talbot's 'domestic life'; Social life in the bishop's palace; Business in the bishop's palace; Conclusion; Notes |
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Chapter 6: Auckland Castle in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the palace and princely powerThe bishops and public protest; 'The Battle of Stanhope'; Bishop Barrington as philanthropist and moral reformer; Capitalising on the architecture of Auckland Castle; Notes; Chapter 7: Bishops' residences, saints' cults, and the legacy of sacred authority in the medieval dioceses of St Andrews and Glasgow; Diocese of St Andrews; Diocese of Glasgow; The Virgin's tears: the watery garth; Sacred space within the garth; Notes; PART II: Palaces, forests, and parks |
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Chapter 8: Pre-Conquest regalian roots of episcopal forests and chasesEpiscopal forests and chases in early royal land grants; The hunting and woodland rights of the Bishops of Worcester; Episcopal rights as residual royal rights; Conclusion; Appendix: episcopal forests and associated estates, land-units, and royal donors; Notes; Chapter 9: English bishops' hunting rights, hunts, and hunting grounds; Bishops and hunting; Tangible outputs and expenses of hunting; Episcopal 'great chases'; Episcopal hunting grounds and hunting rights; Conclusion; Notes |
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Chapter 10: Deer parks and masculine egos: knights, priors, and bishops in the medieval north of EnglandRanulph Neville's gift of venison; The Prior of Durham's parks; Invasions of ecclesiastics' parks; Bishop Bek, noble animals, and masculinity; The bishop's parks as targets of violent incursions; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 11: The Bishop of Durham's park at Auckland Castle in the Middle Ages; Notes; PART III: Palaces and the work of the bishop; Chapter 12: English bishops' itineraries, c. 700-c. 1200; Evidence for the period before c. 1100; Twelfth-century episcopal itineraries; Conclusion |
| Summary |
This is a carefully structured and edited volume of research papers arising from a conference of the same title held at Auckland Castle, County Durham, in 2015. The aim of the volume is to bring together the latest research, exploring the importance of bishops' palaces for social and political history, landscape history, architectural history and archaeology. It will be the first book-length study of such sites since Michael Thompson's Medieval Bishops' Houses (1998), and the first work ever to adopt such a wide-ranging approach to them in terms of themes and geographical and chronological range. It includes contributions from the late Antique period through to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and it deals with bishops' residences in England, Scotland, Wales, the Byzantine Empire, France, and Italy. It is structured in three sections: design and function, which considers how bishops' palaces and houses differed from the palaces and houses of secular magnates, in their layout, design, furnishings, and functions; landscape and urban context, which considers the relationship between bishops' palaces and houses and their political and cultural context, the landscapes and towns or cities in which they were set, and the parks, forests, and towns which were planned and designed around them; and architectural form, which considers the extent of shared features between bishops' palaces and houses, and their relationship to the houses of other church potentates and to the houses of secular magnates |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Bishops -- Europe -- Dwellings -- Congresses
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Architecture and society -- Europe -- Congresses
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Architecture and society.
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Bishops -- Dwellings.
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Bischofspfalz
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Architektur
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Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Rollason, David
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| ISBN |
9781351859400 |
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1351859404 |
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