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Liturgy and Music in Hereford Cathedral in the Time of Queen Victoria and Beyond
British Art Studies, 2017 The Victorian Gothic Revival and its focus on liturgical neo-medievalism inspired the 1860s restoration of the medieval Hereford Cathedral. In this restoration, the new screen played a central part.
Tessa Murdoch
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The Hereford Screen: A Prehistory
British Art Studies, 2017 This paper explores two contexts for Francis Skidmore and George Gilbert Scott's screen at Hereford Cathedral. First, it locates the screen within a succession of choir screens at Hereford from the middle ages to the present, thereby charting the ...
The Hereford Screen: A Prehistory
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Resurrection, Re-Imagination, Reconstruction: New Viewpoints on the Hereford Screen
British Art Studies, 2017 The Hereford Screen is one of the most complex and intricate choir screens of the Victorian era. Positioned in the gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s main entrance, its glistening metalwork, brass, and terracotta effect surfaces, incrustations ...
Ayla Lepine
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Collaborations Between Scott and Skidmore
British Art Studies, 2017 This essay examines the collaboration between architect and designer George Gilbert Scott and metalworker Francis Skidmore. It compares their metalwork screens at the cathedrals of Hereford, Lichfield, and Salisbury—projects which sometimes overlapped ...
Alicia Robinson
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Issue 5 The Medieval Choir Screen in Sacred Space: The Dynamic Interiors of Vezzolano and Breisach
British Art Studies, 2017 In their later medieval heyday, choir screens were pivotal centerpieces and focalisers of their sacred environments. Embellished with figural imagery; outfitted with platforms, pulpits, and altars; and rendered visually porous by the presence of large ...
Jacqueline E. Jung
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History, Volume 105, Issue 367, Page 673-690, October 2020., 2020 Abstract In July 1220, the boy king Henry III attended the Translation of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury, whereby the saint's body was transferred from its original tomb in the crypt of Canterbury cathedral to a splendid new shrine in the main body of the church.
Louise J. Wilkinson
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History, Volume 105, Issue 367, Page 691-715, October 2020., 2020 Abstract This article marks the 700th anniversary of the canonisation of St Thomas de Cantilupe, bishop of Hereford (1275‐82, canonised 1320), by providing a comprehensive overview of the extant fourteenth‐century miracle collection, Oxford, Exeter College, MS 158, with reference to a contemporary copy in Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat ...
IAN L. BASS
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Introduction: Remembering English Saints in 2020
, 2020 History, Volume 105, Issue 367, Page 559-566, October 2020.
LOUISE J. WILKINSON, PAUL WEBSTER
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Archaeometry, Volume 61, Issue 6, Page 1366-1381, December 2019., 2019 The question of whether rock grit ingested unintentionally from querns, metates or millstones, or deliberately through pica or geophagy, is bioaccessible in the human gut has not been addressed in archaeological strontium (Sr) isotope studies. This study employed the unified bioaccessibility method and determined that ingested rock grit can provide ...
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Attitudes to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postnatal Complications in Medieval English Miracula
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 543-560, July 2025.Abstract This article re‐examines the evidence about childbirth and related topics in the posthumous miracle collections of English saints. It finds forty‐eight such miracles in collections of thirteen English saints, mostly from the century or so after 1170. The article argues that the context in which the stories were composed is vitally important to
Ben Nilson, Ruth Frost
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