The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich

Studies of a Medieval Monument Over Four Centuries
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-41883-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 548 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1134 g

Reihe: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

The early 16th-century baptismal font canopy of the church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, is one of only three such structures to survive anywhere in the British Isles. This study, inspired by the recent rediscovery of four attributable panels at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, offers a trans-temporal account of the canopy’s initial creation and subsequent use, mutilation, and modification. Written by a team of scholars in art/architectural history, art conservation, heritage documentation, literary studies, and museum curation, it explores the installation’s multiple artistic, ritual, and cultural contexts, from late medieval and early modern Europe to modern-day North America.
Contributors are Benjamin Baaske, Sarah Blick, Kate Duffy, Brent R. Fortenberry, Amy Gillette, Jack Hinton, Lesley Milner, Peggy Olley, Ellen K. Rentz, Behrooz Salimnejad, Zachary Stewart, Achim Timmermann, Charles Tracy, Kim Woods, and Lucy Wrapson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gillette, Amy

Stewart, Zachary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Restaurierung, Konservierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Tables, Plates, and Figures

Contributors

Introduction: A Meditation on the Art-Historical Fragment

Amy Gillette and Zachary Stewart

Part 1: Settings

1 A “Parish Church Par Excellence”: The Architecture and Arts of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, from the Conquest to the Reformation

Zachary Stewart

2 The Treasure House of the Church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: What Factors Best Explain Its Position and Design?

Lesley Milner

Part 2: Analyses

3 A Technical Study of the Font and Font Canopy at St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, in the East Anglian Context

Lucy Wrapson

4 Four English Carved Panels at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Associated with the Church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: A Technical Analysis

Kate Duffy, Jack Hinton, Peggy Olley and Behrooz Salimnejad

5 The Challenges of Visualizing Fixed Monuments in Medieval Art and Architectural History

Brent R. Fortenberry and Benjamin Baaske

6 Toward a Reconstruction of the Mancroft Font Canopy

Zachary Stewart

Part 3: Contexts

7 English Medieval Timber Church Furniture c.1300–1540

Charles Tracy

8 Thinking with the Font: Ritual and Drama

Ellen K. Rentz

9 The Microarchitectural Mise-en-Scène of Baptism, c.1200–c.1700: A Short History

Achim Timmermann

10 Hidden in Plain Sight: How the Complex Iconography of Late-Medieval English Font Covers Saved Some

Sarah Blick

11 “Gloriously Appareled”: The Ornament of the St. Peter Mancroft Canopy

Amy Gillette

Part 4: Afterlives

12 The Afterlife of Late Gothic Furnishings in British Churches and Collections

Kim Woods

13 “A Study Close at Hand of These Fine Examples of Gothic Decoration”: The Collecting of English Medieval Woodcarvings in American Museums

Jack Hinton

Appendix: Technical and Analytical Terminology

Plates

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Gillette (Ph.D., Temple University, 2016) is a research associate at the Barnes Foundation. She has published on pre-modern and modern objects in the Barnes collection, and on images of angels in medieval and Byzantine visual culture.

Zachary Stewart (Ph.D., Columbia University, 2015) is Associate Professor of Architectural History and Theory and James M. Singleton IV ’66, FAIA, Endowed Professor at Texas A&M University. He has published widely on the art and architecture of medieval Britain.