Fresh examinations of one of the most important church furnishings of the middle ages. The churches of medieval Europe contained richly carved and painted screens, placed between the altar and the congregation; they survive in particularly high numbers in England, despite being partly dismantled during the Reformation. While these screens divided "lay" from "priestly" jurisdiction, it has also been argued that they served to unify architectural space. This volume brings together the latest scholarship on the subject, exploring in detail numerous aspects of the construction and painting of screens, it aims in particular to unite perspectives from science and art history. Examples are drawn from a wide geographical range, from Scandinavia to Italy.
Author(s): Spike Bucklow, Richard Marks, Lucy Wrapson (eds.)
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture, 9
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 360
City: Woodbridge
List of Illustrations vii
List of Contributors xvi
Preface xvii
Introduction / Paul Binski 1
1. Framing the Rood in medieval England and Wales / Richard Marks 7
2. Science and the screen / Spike Bucklow 30
3. Towards a new methodological approach for interpreting workshop activity and dating medieval church screens / Lucy Wrapson 45
4. Texts and detexting on late medieval English church screens / David Griffith 71
5. Sacred kingship, genealogy and the late medieval rood screen: Catfield and beyond / Julian Luxford 100
6. West Country rood screens: construction and practice / H. Harrison and J. West 123
7. The polychromy of Devon screens: preliminary analytical results / Lucy Wrapson and Eddie Sinclair 150
8. Moving pictures on the Gothic choir screen / Jacqueline E. Jung 176
9. The preserving power of Calvinism: pre-Reformation chancel screens in the Netherlands / Justin E. A. Kroesen 195
10. Recovering the lost rood screens of medieval and Renaissance Italy / Donal Cooper 220
11. Choir screens and rood lofts in Scandinavian parish churches before 1300 / Ebbe Nyborg 246
Bibliography 262
Index of names and places 296
