The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England

by Sarah Stanbury

Little remains of the rich visual culture of late medieval English piety. The century and a half leading up to the Reformation had seen an unparalleled growth of devotional arts, as chapels, parish churches, and cathedrals came to be filled with images in stone, wood, alabaster, glass, embroidery, and paint of newly personalized saints, angels, and the Holy Family. But much of this fell victim to the Royal Injunctions of September 1538, when parish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812240383
• ISBN13: 9780812240382
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"