The church and the arts : papers read at the 1990 Summer Meeting and the 1991 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society
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The church and the arts : papers read at the 1990 Summer Meeting and the 1991 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society
（Studies in church history, 28）
Published in paperback for the Ecclesiastical History Society by Blackwell Publishers, 1995
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First published in paperback 1995
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Description
This volume presents 34 responses which are so varied that the book can be used as an introduction to the Church or any aspect of the arts. The subjects range from Byzantine images and Carolingian illuminated manuscripts to the zodiacal images on a font at Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, a nd on to the illustrations for the Bishops' Bible; from 15th-century Netherlands composers via Bach and 19th-century plainsong to Leonard Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms"; from 12th-century treatises to the poetry of Isaac Watts, and on to the novels of the 20th-century navvy Patrick MacGill; from Medieval tomb sculpture to the work of Elizabeth Frink, and all manner of ecclesiastical architecture. The book explores motives, connections, and attitudes: the piety, the patronage and the politics which underpinned this achievement, the connections between image and indulgence, church decor and devotion, or between the sacred and the profane, and the attitude of the churches to a variety of artistic expression.
Table of Contents
- The language of images - the rise of icons and Christian representation, Averil Cameron
- Charlemagne as a patron of art, Henry Mayr-Harting
- make a merry noise! - a 9th-century teacher looks at hymns, Alice L. Harting-Correa
- the Christian zodiac on a font at Hook Norton - theology, Church and art, Mary Charles Murray
- Hugh of St Victor, Isaiah's Vision, and De arca Noe, Grover A. Zinn Jr
- advertise the message - images in Rome at the turn of the 12th century, Brenda M. Bolton
- friars, patrons and workshops at the Basilica del Santo, Padua, Louise Bourdua
- patrons and minders - the intrusion of the secular into sacred spaces in the late-Middle Ages, Andrew Martindale
- rewarding devotion - indulgences and the promotion of images, Flora Lewis
- aristocratic and popular piety in the patronage of music in the 15th-century Netherlands, Roger Bowers
- art and identity in the parish communities of late-Medieval Kent, Judy Ann Ford
- Medieval liturgy as theatre - the props, R.N. Swanson
- John Marbeck and "The Book of Common Prayer" noted, Kenneth W.T. Carleton
- the Bishops' Bible illustrations, Margaret Aston
- the silent community - early Puritans and the patronage of the arts, Brett Usher
- holiness in beauty? - Roman Catholics, Armenians and the aesthetics of religion in early-Caroline England, Keith A. Newman
- iconoclasm, iconography and the altar in the English Civil War, Jacqueline Eales
- Baroque in the hymn-book, Donald Davie
- art and science - or Bach as an expositor of the Bible, W.R. Ward
- contemporary ecclesiastical reactions to Home's Douglas, Henry R. Sefton
- Gillows' Catholic chapels, 1750-1800, Lindsay Boynton
- Victorian feminism and Catholic art - the case of Mrs Jameson, Sheridan Gilley
- Henry Styleman le Strange - tractarian, artist, squire, W.M. Jacob
- the Victorian revival of plainsong in English - its usage under tractarians and ritualists, Walter Hillsman
- a chapel and its architect - James Cubitt and Union Chapel, Islington, 1879-1899 (presidential address ), J.C.G. Binfield
- making Catholic spaces - women, decor and devotion in the English Catholic Church, 1840-1900, Susan O'Brian
- music and religion in World War I, Stuart Mews
- British churches and the cinema in the 1930s, G.I.T. Machin
- Church art and Church discipline round about 1939, Brian Taylor
- Patrick Macgill, 1890-1963 - an alternative vision, Bernard Aspinwall
- honesty and consecration - Paul Tillich's criteria for a religious architecture, Martin Dudley
- "impressario, patron and indomitable persuader" - Walter Hussey at St Matthew's, Northampton and Chichester Cathedral, Garth Turner
- Liverpool's two Cathedrals, John Tarn
- the Western discovery of non-Western Christian art, A.F. Walls.
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