Becket's crown : art and imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1350

Publication Data

• Title Becket's crown : art and imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1350
• Alternative Title Art and imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1350
• Author Paul Binski
• Contributor Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2004
• Publication location New Haven, Conn.
• Language English

Contents

Pt. 1. Edification. Canterbury, the aesthetics of martyrdom
The ascetics
Mary's great churches : Lincoln and Salisbury
Pt. 2. Sanctification. Viriditas : Ely and St. Etheldreda
The clefts of the rock : Wells
Becket's crown
Pt. 3. Regulation. Ornamenta
Pastoralia
Pt. 4. Expression. The tree of life
Sudden glory
Music and the angelic.

Topics

• Architecture, Gothic :: England
• Church architecture :: England
• Liturgy and architecture :: England
• Architecture and religion
• England :: Church history :: 1066-1485
• England

Becket's crown : art and imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1350 by Paul Binski. ISBN 0300105096. Published by Yale University Press in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.