St Stephen's Chapel and the Palace of Westminster (eBook)

Tim Ayers, J.P.D. Cooper, Caroline Shenton, Elizabeth Hallam Smith (Herausgeber)

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2024
358 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80543-415-3 (ISBN)

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Traces the history of a magnificent landmark in the history of late medieval art and architecture.As the principal royal chapel in the medieval Palace of Westminster, St Stephen's was at the centre of worship for the Plantagenets, a major collegiate foundation of a new kind for the mid-fourteenth century, and a community of national significance in the development of sacred polyphony. During the Reformation, the Chapel was converted into a meeting place for the House of Commons, which it remained for 300 years, shaping the development of British political culture. Its influence continues to be felt today in the design of the Commons chamber. Following the disastrous Palace fire of 1834, the site of the upper chapel was rebuilt as St Stephen's Hall, a gallery of national history, leading to the Central Lobby of the Houses of Parliament.This book tells the story of St Stephen's Chapel, from the thirteenth century to the present day. Sixteen chapters explain the building and its religious life, its political significance, and the antiquarian rediscovery of its former magnificence. Contributors highlight the interaction between visual and political culture; the contexts of kingship and international rivalry that informed the foundation and construction of chapel and college; the effect of medieval St Stephen's on the development of the House of Commons; the adaptation and re-use of St Mary Undercroft; and the creation of St Stephen's Hall in the 1840s. The hall would become a site of Suffragette activism in the campaign for Votes for Women, marked today by a monumental artwork New Dawn, which is the focus of the final chapter.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2024
• Co-Autor: Tim Ayers, W Mark Ormrod, Paul Seaward, Caroline Shenton, Elizabeth Hallam Smith, Jane Spooner, Murray Tremellen, Melanie Unwin, Magnus Williamson, Elizabeth Biggs, Paul Binski, Mark Collins, J.P.D. Cooper, John Harper, Rosemary Hill, James Hillson, Rebekah Moore
• Zusatzinfo: 78 colour and 72 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Antiquarian Studies • architecture and politics • commemoration practices • English kingship • Gender and Commemoration • Gothic architecture • Gothic Revival • House of Commons Chamber • House of Commons History • Iconography • Medieval Art • Medieval Collegiate Chapel • Nineteenth Century Restoration • Parliamentary Revolution • plantagenet dynasty • Polyphony in Medieval Music • St Mary Undercroft • tudor era • Wren Architecture
• ISBN-10: 1-80543-415-2 / 1805434152
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80543-415-3 / 9781805434153