Research Catalog

Title

Beyond pilgrim souvenirs and secular badges : essays in honour of Brian Spencer / edited by Sarah Blick.

Publication

Oxford : Oxbow Books, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blick, Sarah.
• Spencer, Brian, 1928-2003.

Description

xvi, 200 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Spencer, Brian, 1928-2003
• Christian art and symbolism > Medieval, 500-1500
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages > Europe
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages > Great Britain
• Religious medals > Europe
• Religious medals > Great Britain
• Badges > Europe
• Badges > Great Britain
• Pilgrim badges > Europe
• Pilgrim badges > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

A select list of Brian Spencer's publications / Geoff Egan -- Obituary -- Brian Spencer: born April 18th 1928, died April 3rd 2003 / Richard Spencer -- The expert and the collector / Brian North Lee -- Brian Watson Spencer's good work / H.J.E. van Beuningen -- The depiction of St James Compostela on seals / John Cherry -- Pilgrim ampullae of York Minster and the healing oil from the shrine of St William / Katja Boertjes -- A pilgrims' badge and ampullae possibly from the Chartreuse of Champmol / Jos Koldweij -- Crossing the pilgrimage landscape: some thought on a Holy Rood reliquary from the River Tay at Carpow, Perth and Kinross, Scotland / Mark A. Hall -- Amulets: prescriptions and surviving objects from late medieval England / Peter Murray Jones -- Imaging Sant Magí: souvenirs of a Catalan pilgrimage / Graham Jones -- The portable pilgrim: possible links between the iconography of early Romanesque tablesmen and church sculptures, and a review of some elements of the Gloucester Tables Set / Malcolm J. Watkins -- The cat in the badge: the iconography of late medieval bicaudal and other felines-- / Malcolm Jones -- Pilgrimage and protest: badges at the British Museum relating to Thomas of Lancaster and Isabella, Queen of Edward II / James Robinson -- King and cleric: Richard II and the iconography of St Thomas Becket and St Edward the Confessor at Our Lady of Undercroft, Canterbury Cathedral / Sarah Blick.

ISBN

• 9781842172353
• 1842172352

OCLC

• ocn150371725
• SCSB-1447387

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library