
The Architecture of Medieval England
The Merchant Builders
Nicola Coldstream(Author)
Amberley Publishing
Will be published approx. on 15. August 2028
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-3981-2691-6 (ISBN)
Description
Houses, guildhalls, Merchant Adventurers' halls, crowd-funded churches, chapels, almshouses, schools, bridges, city walls - they were all built by the merchants. Writings on English late medieval architecture between the Black Death of the mid-14th century and the Reformation of the 16th, the period characterised stylistically as Perpendicular, have usually ignored the class of patrons who built most. A merchant could be anyone from a small trader operating at a local level to a very rich member of a City Livery Company in London, and any who could afford to build did so. They built either as individuals or in collective enterprises, their intention being both to save their souls after death and increase commercial opportunity, seeing no incompatibility between these aims.
Basing her work on original sources, including building plans, architectural expert Nicola Coldstream shows how much of what we still see today as characteristically English architecture came to be.
Basing her work on original sources, including building plans, architectural expert Nicola Coldstream shows how much of what we still see today as characteristically English architecture came to be.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chalford
United Kingdom
Illustrations
120 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-3981-2691-6 (9781398126916)
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Nicola Coldstream is a historian of medieval architecture who lives in Oxfordshire, after many years teaching and writing about medieval buildings. She is a graduate of Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a former President of the British Archaeological Association and a Trustee of the Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust. Her books include 'The Decorated Style. Architecture and Ornament 1240-1360' (1994) and 'Medieval Architecture', Oxford History of Art (2002).