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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Westminster Abbey"”.
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The Fortunes of a King: Images of Edward the Confessor in 12th to 14th Century England
… and messages. The study explores the role that Westminster Abbey had in the emergence, adoption, and transformation of Edward’s cult images, and it examines how the English crown subsequently adopted Edward as a saint-king figure under King Henry III and King Richard II. Furthermore, the study …
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On stage at the theatre of state: the monuments and memorials in Parliament Square, London
… thesis concerns Parliament Square in the City of Westminster, London. It is situated to the west of the Houses of Parliament (or New Palace at Westminster) and to the north of St. Margaret’s Church and Westminster Abbey. This urban space was first cleared at the start of the nineteenth-century and …
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Henry VII : a study of visual display in life and death
… of his tomb and re-founded Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey. Using a range of published primary sources, as well assessing art and buildings from Henry's reign, this study will examine Henry VII's communicative intent through visual display. This analysis will be undertaken in a …
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Piety and Politics in the Kingship of Henry III
… Henry’s relationship with and construction of Westminster Abbey, and his magnificent almsgiving. There has also been an appreciation that the political and the pious overlapped in a way our secular world does not fully appreciate. This thesis builds on this work. It examines Henry’s standard …
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Early Darwinian Commemoration in Britain, 1882-1914
… to his commemoration. Darwin’s funeral, at Westminster Abbey, was widely accepted as a national endorsement of his social respectability, and, by extension, that of a burgeoning scientific profession which organised it. Further to this first posthumous elevation, and appropriation, of …
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The polygonal chapter house: architecture and society in Gothic Britain
… Specifically, it is after the chapter house of Westminster Abbey from 1246-55 that octagon chapter houses mostly with large traceried windows appear at least fourteen times at widely dispersed sites throughout England and Scotland. Writers have speculated about or interpreted the origins and …
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Sanctuary in Sixteenth-Century England
On the eve of the sixteenth century, sanctuary in England operated under the common law in much the same manner as it had done for centuries. ‘Common’ sanctuaries (a customary right pertaining to all churches and churchyards) permitted felons to seek refuge for a maximum of forty days, before they …