Wingfield College and Its Patrons

Piety and Patronage in Medieval Suffolk
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-84383-832-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 289 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

The 650th anniversary of the foundation of Wingfield College was the occasion for a special two-day symposium marking the culmination of a three-year UEA-funded research project into the college and castle. The building projects of the late medieval aristocracy focused on their homes and the monasteries, churches or chantry foundations under their patronage where their family were buried and commemorated. This commemoration allowed a visual celebration of their achievements, status and lineage, the scale and prestige of which reflected on the fortunes of the family as a whole. Wingfield is explored in the context of both the actual building of the castle, chantry chapel and the college, and that of the symbolic function of these as a demonstration ion of aristocratic status.

The contributions to this book examine many topics which have hitherto been neglected, such as the archaeology of the castle, which had never been excavated, the complex history of the college's architecture, and the detailed study of the monuments in the church. The latest techniques are used to reconstruct the college and castle, with a DVD to demonstrate these. And the context of the family and its fortunes are explored in chapters on the place of the de la Poles in fifteenth century history, as soldiers, administrators and potential claimants to the throne.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bloore, Peter

Martin, Edward

Weitere Mitwirkende

MacCulloch, Diarmaid

Duffy, Eamon

Martin, Edward

Goodall, John

Bailey, Mark

Bloore, Peter

Archer, R.E.

Liddiard, Robert E

Badham, Sally

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Öffentliche Gebäude, Gewerbliche Bauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Sakralbauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
From hall-and-church complex to castle green and college - a landscape history of Wingfield - Edward Martin
Sir John de Wingfield and the foundation of Wingfield College - Mark Bailey
Wingfield College and the late medieval cult of purgatory - Eamon Duffy
The Foundation and Surrender of Wingfield College
Reconstructing Wingfield Castle - Robert E Liddiard
Historical digital reconstruction: the role of creativity and known unknowns. A case study of Wingfield College, Suffolk - Peter Bloore
Medieval monuments to the de la Pole and Wingfield families - Sally Badham
Chapel or closet? The question of the vestry at Wingfield - John Goodall
Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk [d.1475] and her East Anglian estates - R.E. Archer
The Wars of the Roses, the downfall of the de la Poles and the dissolution of Wingfield College - Diarmaid MacCulloch
Appendix One: Historial timeline for Wingfield College
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Bailey, Mark
MARK BAILEY was recently High Master of St Paul's School, London, and a visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was previously a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and is now the Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. His numerous publications include Medieval Suffolk. An economic and social history 1200-1500 (2007) and After the Black Death. Economy, society and the law in fourteenth-century England (2021).