IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 508: Images of Lordship in Religious Buildings in the Middle Ages
Tuesday 13 July 2004, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | University of York |
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Organiser: | Mark Lee Honeywell, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
Moderator/Chair: | W. Mark Ormrod, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
Paper 508-a | Power Politics or Piety?: Religious Buildings on the Welsh Marches and Western Borders in the Late 13th and Early 14th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Art History - General, Political Thought, Social History |
Paper 508-b | Celebrating Fragmentation: The Presence of Aristocratic Body Parts in Religious Houses (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Social History |
Paper 508-c | Expressions of Local Lordship: The Patronage of North Yorkshire's Parish Churches and Funerary Monuments (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Social History |
Abstract | The theme of this session is to investigate the ways that some of the highest members of medieval society used the space in religious buildings, and directed religious patronage, to convey secular messages. Mark Honeywell will look at how the rebuilding work carried out at Tewkesbury Abbey by Hugh Despenser the younger, conveyed overtly political and dynastic messages. Danielle Westerhof investigates how the physical remains of an aristocratic patron or benefactor, established a religious and political relationship between a monestery and family. Finally, Dr Finch will look at the image of the kneeling knight in late medieval sepulcral monuments and the role of piety in chivalric culture. |