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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Durham Cathedral"”.
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The choral foundation of Durham Cathedral, c.1350 - c.1650
The muniments of Durham cathedral, city, and diocese have been explored in order to present and assess the contribution made by lay musicians to worship in the cathedral. By 1335-60 the boys and men had become sufficiently established to merit specific payments. Whether or not the lay Cantor dates …
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Accounting, Management and Control at Durham Cathedral Priory c. 1250-c. 1420
… analysing the accounting records and systems of Durham Cathedral Priory, from which survives one of the largest collections of medieval accounting material in the United Kingdom. It moves beyond the traditional focus of accounting historians on manorial compoti to examine a network of …
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Networks and narratives: the 'Liber Exemplorum' and the intellectual milieu of the Franciscan order in thirteenth-century Ireland
… fourteenth-century copy of the text found in Durham Cathedral Library MS B.IV.19, but recent research has uncovered a more complete fifteenth-century copy found in Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn MS S 361. This second copy, represented by the Bonn manuscript, offers insights into the …
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Translocating Devotion to Female Saints in England through Liturgical Prescription and Practice, c. 1330–1500
… from a single bishop adding her feast to his cathedral’s liturgical calendar. Other feasts, such as those of St Winefride of Wales, St Frideswide of Oxford, and St Etheldreda of Ely, were mandated for celebration throughout the province of Canterbury in the fifteenth century with differing …
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Painting in Stone: The Symbolism of Colored Marbles in the Visual Arts and Literature from Antiquity until the Enlightenment
… of the seventeenth century. Examples range from Durham to Samarra, from Ottoman folklore to popular piety in Florida, from Etruscan tomb painting to installation art, but key monuments like Hagia Sophia and the Cornaro Chapel offer case studies for in-depth analysis.