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Becket’s Crown - Binski, Paul - Yale University Press
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Nov 15, 2004
360 p., 9 x 11
210 b/w + 80 color illus.
ISBN: 9780300105094
ISBN-10: 0300105096
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Cloth
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- Related Categories
- Art and Architecture
History
Religion
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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Becket’s CrownArt and Imagination in Gothic England 1170-1300
Out of Print.
Winner of the 2006 Historians of British Art Book Prize in the single author, pre-circa 1800 subject category Winner of the ACE/Mercers’ International Book Award 2005 for outstanding contribution to the dialogue between religious faith and the visual arts. Shortlisted for the William Berger Prize for British Art History 2005.
To appreciate England’s earliest Gothic buildings and art—the great cathedrals at Canterbury, Lincoln, Salisbury, and Wells and contemporary Gothic texts and images—it is necessary to understand the religious and ethical ideals of the individuals and communities who sponsored them. Paul Binski’s fascinating new book offers a radical new perspective on English art, architecture, social formation, and religious imagination during this pivotal period.
Binski reveals that the Church, although authoritarian and undergoing reform, was able to come to terms with new developments in society and technology as well as with the fact of social and religious diversity. He explains how varying ideals of personal sanctity were bound up with radical new notions of leadership, personal ethics, and styles of religious devotion and how ideas of reform of worship, personal conduct, and art affected the community at large.
Paul Binski is reader in the history of medieval art at the University of Cambridge.
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