Alban and St Albans: Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and ArchaeologyContents: Religion and Art in St Alban's City; The late antique Passion of St Alban; Britain's Other Martyrs: Julius, Aaron and Alban at Caerleon; The Origins of St Albans Abbey: Romano-British Cemetery and Anglo-Saxon Monastery; Offa, Ælfric and the Refoundation of St Albans: The Alban Cross; Early Recycling: The Anglo-Saxon and Norman Re-use of Roman Bricks with special reference to Hertfordshire; The Medieval Building Stones of St Albans ABbey; Remembering St Alban: the Site of the Shrine and the Discovery of the Twelfth-century Purbeck Marble Shrine Table; The Place of St Albans in Regional Sculpture and Architecture in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century; The Thirteenth-century West Front of St Albans Abbey; The Gothic Reconstruction of the Nave and Presbytery of St Albans Abbey; A Survey and Dating of the Timber Structures in the Central Tower of the Abbey Church; Pilgrims' Souvenir Badges of St Alban; The St Albans Monks and the Cult of St Alban: the Late Medieval Texts; The Chantry of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester; The Great Screen and its Context. By a variety of contributors. |
Contents
Religion and Art in St Albans City | 13 |
The late antique Passion of St Alban | 30 |
RomanoBritish Cemetery and AngloSaxon Monastery | 45 |
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Alban and St Albans: Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology Martin Henig,Phillip Lindley No preview available - 2001 |
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14th century Abbey Church Abbot Amphibalus angled holes Anglo-Saxon arcade Archaeology arches architectural Auban building Caerleon Canterbury Cathedral cemetery centre chantry chapel chapter house Christian coffin Cotton cross cult decorated detail Duke Humphrey's Chantry Dunstable early east England English evidence foliage fols fragment Germanus Gesta abbatum Gildas Gothic graves Henry V's Chantry Hertfordshire high altar Inscription John Kjølbye-Biddle late Roman later London Malcolm Thurlby manuscript Martin Biddle martyr martyrdom Matthew Paris medieval monks monument Museum nave Norman Offa original Oxford palmette palmette frieze Passio Piece piers presbytery probably Purbeck marble re-used Riley Rolls Series Roman Britain Romanesque Romano-British Saint Alban screen sculpture shafts Shrine of St side slab St Albans Abbey St Albans Cathedral St Amphibalus stone suggest surviving temple tomb Totternhoe stone tower transept triforium vault Verulamium Vie de Seint wall west front Westminster Abbey Whethamstede Winchester