1st Edition

The Medieval Chantry in England

By Julian M. Luxford Copyright 2012
324 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

Chantries were religious institutions endowed with land, goods and money. At their heart was the performance of a daily mass for the spiritual benefit of their founders, and the souls of all faithful dead. To Church reformers, they exemplified some of medieval Catholicism’s most egregious errors; but to the orthodox they offered opportunities to influence what occurred in an unknowable afterlife.... Read more

CONTENTS

PREFACE

JOHN MCNEILL A Prehistory of the Chantry

JULIAN LUXFORD The Origins and Development of the English ‘Stone-Cage’ Chantry Chapel

ANTJE FEHRMANN English Royal Chantry Provision

CLIVE BURGESS Chantries in the Parish

ROGER BOWERS Liturgy and Music in the Role of the Chantry Priest

KATE HEARD ‘Such stuff as dreams are made on’: Textiles and the Medieval Chantry

ANNA EAVIS The Chantries of William of Wykeham

CATHY OAKES In pursuit of heaven: The two Chantry Chapels of Bishop Edmund Audley at Hereford and Salisbury Cathedrals

CHARLES TRACY Thomas Spring’s Chantry and Parclose at Lavenham, Suffolk.

JOHN GOODALL The Jesus Chapel or Islip’s Chantry at Westminster Abbey

PHILLIP LINDLEY ‘Pickpurse’ Purgatory, the Dissolution of the Chantries and the Suppression of Intercession for the Dead

Biography

Julian M Luxford is Professor at School of Art History, St Andrews University.