Women, Art and Patronage From Henry III to Edward III, 1216-1377.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Loveday Lewes Gee. Women, Art and Patronage From Henry III to Edward III, 1216-1377. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 219. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-8617-7.

Despite the ravages of time, there is still extant a large volume of cultural artefacts from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in England. In terms of the visual arts, there are the fabrics of buildings, whether castles, town houses, parish churches, monasteries, or great cathedrals. There are also sepulchral monuments, brasses, furnishings, glass, vestments, manuscripts, wall paintings, and seals. The list ...

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