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God's House at Ewelme
enlarge	Authors: John A. A. Goodall, English Heritage, Uk John Goodall Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Category: Book Buy New: $140.00 New (4) Used (3) from $130.21 Media: Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 285 Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6 Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.9 x 1.3 ISBN: 0754600475 Dewey Decimal Number: 362.5850942579 EAN: 9780754600473 ASIN: 0754600475 Publication Date: August 2001 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Editorial Reviews: Product Description God's House at Ewelme is an extraordinary survival from England's late-medieval past: a well-documented and preserved chantry foundation established in 1437 by William and Alice de la Pole, then Earl and Countess of Suffolk. As originally constituted, it supported a school, a community of 13 almsmen and two priests. Their prayers and activities were to be offered for the praise of God and benefit of their founders' souls. This text uses the wealth of architectural, artistic and documentary evidence at Ewelme to create a portrait of God's House in the 15th century. Through this, it aims to represent the values and forces which shaped chantry devotion during this period. It examines the patronage of the de la Poles, the history of the foundation, the architecture of the complex, the life that was led by its community and the figures who lived there.

Customer Reviews: Scholarship to Delight and to Instruct July 27, 2004 Goodall has written an exhaustively researched study that does not exhaust the reader. His prose presents details of late medieval political and religious history, art architecture, and household finances, without losing the thread of narrative and argument that allures the reader's attention, and refuses to manipulate it with any agenda other than getting at the reality of a charming and significant part of England's spiritual, psychological, and cultural past. The photographic illustrations are superb, the plans well made.

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