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Book SynopsisMedieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Cambridge explores the archaeology, art, and architecture of Cambridge in the Middle Ages, a city marked not only by its exceptional medieval university buildings but also by remarkable parish churches, monastic architecture, and surviving glass, books, and timber work.
The chapters in this volume cover a broad array of medieval, and later, buildings and objects in the city and its immediate surrounds, both from archaeological and thematic approaches. In addition, a number of chapters reflect on the legacy and influence medieval art and architecture had on the later city. Along with medieval colleges, chapels, and churches, buildings in villages outside the city are discussed and analysed. The volume also provides detailed studies of some of the most important master masons, glassmakers, and carpenters in the medieval city, as well as of patrons, building types, and institutional development. Both objects and makers, patro
Table of Contents
Medieval Cambridge: Borough, Churches, and Colleges in Their Economic and Social Context A ‘Coffin’ for St Audrey: Some Misunderstandings about Middle-Saxon Cambridge? The Late-Saxon Graveyard at Cambridge Castle and the Origins of Urbanism in Cambridge The People of Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, in the 12th Century Exploring the Changing Face of Architecture across the Long 12th Century: The Lost Anglo-Norman Churches of Augustinian Barnwell Priory and the Scattered Remains of Romanesque Cambridge The Parochial Nave in 12th-and 13th-Century Cambridgeshire Two Early Collegiate Parish Churches in Cambridge: St Michael’s and Little St Mary’s Patrons, Social Networks, and the Architecture of Collegiate Churches in and around Cambridge in the Early 14th Century An Architecture of Incumbency? Burwell and Beyond John Wastell: Architect, Genius, and All-Round Mr Fix-It Thomas Loveday and His ‘Occupation of Carpynter’s Craft’ ‘Souvent Me Souvient’: Remembering Lady Margaret Beaufort’s Painted Glass in Cambridge The Aesthetics of Change: Edward III’s Secretum Secretorum and English Manuscript Illumination of the 14th Century Common Seals? The Iconography of the Medieval Seals of Cambridge Colleges Robert Willis On Cambridge: Church, Colleges, and City Morris, Leach, Parr, and Gothic Mural Decoration in Victorian Cambridge Oxbridge in America: Archaeology, Emulation, and Disneyfication Site Reports The Anglo-Saxon Church of the Holy Trinity at Great Paxton St Bene’t, Cambridge Jesus College Chapel
