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Art, faith and place in East Anglia : from prehistory to the present / T.A. Heslop, Elizabeth Mellings, Margit Th�fner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2012Copyright date: �2012Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781782040620
  • 1782040625
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Art, Faith and Place in East Anglia.DDC classification:
  • 704.94809426 22
LOC classification:
  • BX2615.S285
Online resources:
Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction: On Faith, objects and locality -- Chapter 2. But where is Norfolk? -- Chapter 3. Sacred image and regional identity in late-prehistoric Norfolk -- Chapter 4. Piety from the ploughsoil: religion in Roman Norfolk through recent metal-detector finds -- Chapter 5. Paganism in early-Anglo-Saxon East Anglia -- Chapter 6. Devotion, pestilence and conflict: the Medieval wall paintings of St Mary The Virgin, Lakenheath -- Chapter 7. 'Here be dragons': the cult of St Margaret of Antioch and strategies for survival.
Chapter 8. The Medieval Jews of Norwich and their legacy -- Chapter 9. Late-Medieval glass-painting in Norfolk: developments in iconography and craft c.1250-1540 -- Chapter 10. Graffiti and devotion in three maritime churches -- Chapter 11. Norfolk wayside crosses: biographies of landscape and place -- Chapter 12. Landscapes of faith and politics in early-modern Norwich -- Chapter 13. Practice and belief: manifestations of witchcraft, magic and paganism in East Anglia from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Chapter 14. Provinciality and the Victorians: church design in nineteenth-century East Anglia -- Chapter 15. Maharajah Duleep Singh, Elveden and Sikh Pilgrimage -- Chapter 16. Supernatural folklore and the popular imagination: re-reading object and locality in mid-nineteenth-century Norfolk -- Chapter 17. 'Pro Patria Mori': Christian rallies and war memorials of early-twentieth-century Norfolk -- Chapter 18. Pagans in place, from Stonehenge to Seahenge: 'Sacred' archeological monuments and artifacts in Britain -- Chapter 19. Art, spirit and ancient places in Norfolk.
Chapter 20. Sacred sites and blessed objects: art and religion in contemporary Norfolk -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: An investigation into the manifestations of religious art in East Anglia and how they are connected to and inspired by their locations.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Introduction: On Faith, objects and locality -- Chapter 2. But where is Norfolk? -- Chapter 3. Sacred image and regional identity in late-prehistoric Norfolk -- Chapter 4. Piety from the ploughsoil: religion in Roman Norfolk through recent metal-detector finds -- Chapter 5. Paganism in early-Anglo-Saxon East Anglia -- Chapter 6. Devotion, pestilence and conflict: the Medieval wall paintings of St Mary The Virgin, Lakenheath -- Chapter 7. 'Here be dragons': the cult of St Margaret of Antioch and strategies for survival.

Chapter 8. The Medieval Jews of Norwich and their legacy -- Chapter 9. Late-Medieval glass-painting in Norfolk: developments in iconography and craft c.1250-1540 -- Chapter 10. Graffiti and devotion in three maritime churches -- Chapter 11. Norfolk wayside crosses: biographies of landscape and place -- Chapter 12. Landscapes of faith and politics in early-modern Norwich -- Chapter 13. Practice and belief: manifestations of witchcraft, magic and paganism in East Anglia from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Chapter 14. Provinciality and the Victorians: church design in nineteenth-century East Anglia -- Chapter 15. Maharajah Duleep Singh, Elveden and Sikh Pilgrimage -- Chapter 16. Supernatural folklore and the popular imagination: re-reading object and locality in mid-nineteenth-century Norfolk -- Chapter 17. 'Pro Patria Mori': Christian rallies and war memorials of early-twentieth-century Norfolk -- Chapter 18. Pagans in place, from Stonehenge to Seahenge: 'Sacred' archeological monuments and artifacts in Britain -- Chapter 19. Art, spirit and ancient places in Norfolk.

Chapter 20. Sacred sites and blessed objects: art and religion in contemporary Norfolk -- Bibliography -- Index.

An investigation into the manifestations of religious art in East Anglia and how they are connected to and inspired by their locations.

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