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Stairway to Heaven

Autor Toby Huitson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mar 2014
Spiral stairs, galleries and upper chambers in medieval cathedrals, abbeys and parish churches have been an enduring source of fascination to scholars since the eighteenth century. But what were these secret stairs, mysterious galleries and hidden upper rooms actually used for - and how can we know? This book presents the evidence for the practical functions of ecclesiastical upper spaces from c. 1000-1550 as revealed through the widest selection of medieval visual, documentary, and artistic media ever assembled for the purpose, taking in treasuries to dovecotes, libraries to lights, and secret games of skittles over the vaults to the daring exploits of the twelfth-century 'Flying monk'. Toby Huitson considers these topics with many others, offering a radically new understanding of medieval high-level function. Dr Toby Huitson teaches at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781842176658
ISBN-10: 184217665X
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: b/w & colour throughout
Dimensiuni: 168 x 239 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Oxbow Books Limited

Recenzii

This is a ground-breaking study, packed with fascinating information: it opens our eyes to many largely forgotten aspects of life and work in the upper parts of medieval religious buildings.--Warwick Rodwell (01/01/0001)
Most people think of churches as single-storeyed buildings, albeit with soaring spaces above the floors, and bells hung high up in empty towers. But this is not how churches were designed, or used, in the Middle Ages, as this book vividly demonstrates. Based on painstaking and wide-ranging research, Dr Huitson reveals for the first time the true scale and complexity of upper-level spaces in churches, monasteries and cathedrals, and their associated precinct buildings. Great churches invariably contain a warren of hidden staircases, narrow passages and small rooms in their walls, towers and roofs, intended to serve both liturgical and secular functions. There were chapels, offices, schools, treasuries, vestries, libraries and muniment rooms, as well as features that have mostly disappeared such as timber galleries, watching-lofts and rood-lofts. Other spaces served more mundane functions including dovecotes, masons tracing rooms, prisons, latrines and living accommodation. Even modest parish churches often contain rooms in their towers or above their porches and vestries, and many display the archaeological scars of long-lost galleries and lofts. This is a ground-breaking study, packed with fascinating information: it opens our eyes to many largely forgotten aspects of life and work in the upper parts of medieval religious buildings. This is a ground-breaking study, packed with fascinating information: it opens our eyes to many largely forgotten aspects of life and work in the upper parts of medieval religious buildings.--Warwick Rodwell (01/01/0001)"

Descriere

Medieval stairs, galleries and upper chambers in cathedrals, abbeys, and parish churches have been an enduring source of fascination to historians and archaeologists since the eighteenth century, but their practical purposes have long been shrouded in mystery and speculation. From libraries to lights, clocks to dovecotes, from secret games of skittles played over the vaults to the daring exploits of the twelfth-century Flying Monk, Toby Huitson explores the lofty spaces, nooks and crannies of medieval upper spaces though the interrogation of a wide range of documentary, visual and archaeological materials. Evidence is revealed for over 30 different functions during the period from around AD 1000 to 1550. Generously illustrated and fully-referenced, the text is accompanied by a set of special features and a quick-reference section, making it indispensable to all those interested in medieval history and architecture.