Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors xvi
5. Preface xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Framing the Rood in medieval England and Wales 7
8. 2 Science and the screen 30
9. 3 Towards a new methodological approach for interpreting workshop activity and dating medieval church screens 45
10. 4 Texts and detexting on late medieval English church screens 71
11. 5 Sacred kingship, genealogy and the late medieval rood screen: Catfield and beyond 100
12. 6 West Country rood screens: construction and practice 123
13. 7 The polychromy of Devon screens: preliminary analytical results 150
14. 8 Moving pictures on the Gothic choir screen 176
15. 9 The preserving power of Calvinism: pre-Reformation chancel screens in the Netherlands 195
16. 10 Recovering the lost rood screens of medieval and Renaissance Italy 220
17. 11 Choir screens and rood lofts in Scandinavian parish churches before 1300 246
18. Bibliography 262
19. Index of names and places 296