Description: The eleven essays presented here lead the reader through the earliest manifestations of the chantry, the origins and development of 'stone-cage' chapels, royal patronage of commemorative art and architecture, the chantry in the late medieval parish.
Review Quotes: ."..this well-illustrated book offers a scholarly and fresh approach to the historical and architectural study of medieval chantries.[...] the volume provides a valuable art-historical study of an important medieval religious monument and is a useful contribution to the wider body of recent work on the subject."--Simon Roffey, University of Winchester"The Catholic Historical Review" (01/01/0001)