1st Edition

Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Cambridge College, Church and City

Edited By Gabriel Byng, Helen Lunnon Copyright 2022
420 Pages 270 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

420 Pages 270 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

420 Pages 270 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Cambridge explores the archaeology, art, and architecture of Cambridge in the Middle Ages, a city marked not only by its exceptional medieval university buildings but also by remarkable parish churches, monastic architecture, and surviving glass, books, and timber work. The chapters in this volume cover a broad array of medieval, and later,... Read more

Medieval Cambridge: Borough, Churches, and Colleges in Their Economic and Social Context

John S. Lee

A ‘Coffin’ for St Audrey: Some Misunderstandings about Middle-Saxon Cambridge?

Paul Everson and David Stocker

The Late-Saxon Graveyard at Cambridge Castle and the Origins of Urbanism in Cambridge

Paul Everson and David Stocker

The People of Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, in the 12th Century

Catherine E. Hundley

Exploring the Changing Face of Architecture across the Long 12th Century: The Lost Anglo-Norman Churches of Augustinian Barnwell Priory and the Scattered Remains of Romanesque Cambridge

Jill A. Franklin

The Parochial Nave in 12th-and 13th-Century Cambridgeshire

Meg Bernstein

Two Early Collegiate Parish Churches in Cambridge: St Michael’s and Little St Mary’s

Paul Binski

Patrons, Social Networks, and the Architecture of Collegiate Churches in and around Cambridge in the Early 14th Century

Andrew Budge

An Architecture of Incumbency? Burwell and Beyond

Zachary Stewart

John Wastell: Architect, Genius, and All-Round Mr Fix-It

F. Woodman

Thomas Loveday and His ‘Occupation of Carpynter’s Craft’

Lucy Wrapson

‘Souvent Me Souvient’: Remembering Lady Margaret Beaufort’s Painted Glass in Cambridge

Anya Heilpern

The Aesthetics of Change: Edward III’s Secretum Secretorum and English Manuscript Illumination of the 14th Century

Michael A. Michael

Common Seals? The Iconography of the Medieval Seals of Cambridge Colleges

Nicholas Rogers

Robert Willis On Cambridge: Church, Colleges, and City

Alexandrina Buchanan

Morris, Leach, Parr, and Gothic Mural Decoration in Victorian Cambridge

Spike Bucklow

Oxbridge in America: Archaeology, Emulation, and Disneyfication

Arnold William Klukas

Site Reports

The Anglo-Saxon Church of the Holy Trinity at Great Paxton

Eric Fernie

St Bene’t, Cambridge

John McNeill

Jesus College Chapel

Peter Draper and Richard Halsey

Biography

Gabriel Byng holds a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Vienna and was previously a research fellow at the University of Cambridge. His first monograph, Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages, was published in 2017.

Helen Lunnon is Head of Learning at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Her fascination with the mutual influence of people, places, and things is explored in East Anglian Church Porches and their Medieval Context, published  in 2020.