1st Edition

York Art, Architecture and Archaeology

Edited By Sarah Brown, Sarah Rees Jones, Tim Ayers Copyright 2021
264 Pages 118 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 118 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 118 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

York explores the archaeology, art, architecture and cultural heritage of the city in the late Middle Ages. In the years since the resurrection of the British Archaeological Association conference in 1976, the association has met in the city only once (in 1988), for a conference that celebrated Yorkshire Monasticism. As a consequence, the secular and vernacular architecture as well as the... Read more
  1. The shrines of St William of York reconstructed
  2. Stuart Harrison

  3. The patronage of the chapter-house in York Minster
  4. Hilary Moxon

  5. The chapter-house roof of York Minster
  6. Julian Munby

  7. York Minster at the time of the Black Death: the stained glass and chantry-chapel of Archbishop Zouche
  8. Christopher Norton

  9. The constructional context of the Great East Window at York Minster
  10. Alexander Holton

  11. Looking for John Thornton: the Great East Window of York Minster revisited
  12. Sarah Brown

  13. Archaeology and the investigation of vernacular buildings in late edieval York
  14. Gareth Dean and Jayne Rimmer

  15. Medieval Yorkshire roads, bridges and York merchants
  16. David Harrison

  17. The early-sixteenth-century stained-glass programme of St Michael-le-Belfrey, York
  18. Lisa Reilly and Mary B. Shepard

  19. The material world of the York plays

        Richard Beadle

Biography

Sarah Brown is Professor of the History of Art at the University of York and Director of the York Glaziers’ Trust. Her research focus is stained glass history and conservation.

Sarah Rees Jones is Professor of Medieval History at the University of York. She specialises in the history of the later Middle Ages, with a particular interest in urban societies and the lived environment.

Tim Ayers is Professor of the History of Art at the University of York. He specializes in English art of the later Middle Ages, with a particular research interest in stained glass.