12. The Sainte-Chapelle as a Capetian Political Program

Brenk, Beat

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“…In a bull of 1244, Pope Innocent IV proclaimed that the Lord had crowned Louis with his Crown of Thorns. As such the reliquary chapel became a focus for France as a God-favoured nation (Brenk 1995). 30.…”

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Divine Kingship and Dynastic Display: The Altar Wall Murals Of St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster

Howe¹

2001

Antiq. J.

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Destroyed by fire in 1834, St Stephen's Chapel at the Palace of Westminster was undoubtedly one of the most opulent and enduringly influential English building programmes of the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Focusing on the programme of wall-painting which flanked its high altar, this paper seeks to clarify the royal chapel's importance not only in terms of its stylistic innovation, but as an arena for Edward Ill's kingly image-making. The study explores the ways in which the chapel space was used and the audiences for which its dynastically forward-looking images were intended. Scrutinising the representations of Edward III and his family, and the biblical scenes beneath which they kneel, it tests the hypothesis that the Westminster murals reflected more than just conventional mid-fourteenth-century devotional preoccupations and were, in fact, indicative of the Plantagenet's own Christian ideology of his kingship.

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Divine Kingship and Dynastic Display: The Altar Wall Murals Of St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster

Howe¹

2001

Antiq. J.

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Mapping Space, Mapping Time: the Thirteenth-century Vault Paintings at Salisbury Cathedral

Reeve¹,

Turner²

2005

Antiq. J.

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This paper provides a new interpretation of the date, form, meanings and theological sources of the former painted cycle on the vaults of Salisbury Cathedral. As the cycle is now known predominantly from antiquarian evidence, we begin with a discussion of the nature and significance of that evidence, namely the series of sketches, drawings and notes produced by Jacob Schnebbelie in the late eighteenth century before the whitewashing of the medieval paintings. Through consideration of the archaeological and stylistic evidence, we propose a date for the cycle between c 1235 and 1245, thus contemporary with the new building campaign begun in 1220. Two connected interpretations of the cycle are offered: first, we argue that the painted cycle was designed to function as a map of the major liturgical sites of the eastern arm; second, we suggest that the imagery was designed to structure an allegory of religious experience and personal salvation in accord with reform-minded thinking in the post-Lateran period.

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The Royal Chapel in Iberia

Costa-Gomes

2009

The Medieval History Journal

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This article analyses the main aspects of the activities of the late medieval royal chapel, comparing several Iberian Christian monarchies. Three definitions of the chapel were proposed since medieval times: the chapel as a collection of liturgical objects, as the human group devoted to the king's service by performing the Christian cult, and as a specific space inside royal residences. All three were put to use for the reproduction of the specific position of kings in Christian societies, as it was expressed in liturgical activities and in devotional practices. Common patterns and mutual influences are analysed, and the example of two ceremonial practices shows that these were more current than it has been argued by historians of the early modern period. on scet bien que le confesseur confesse le prince, et que lui ou le clerc de la chapelle dit ses heures avecques lui, et que le prince offre tous les jours ...

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12. The Sainte-Chapelle as a Capetian Political Program

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Divine Kingship and Dynastic Display: The Altar Wall Murals Of St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster

Divine Kingship and Dynastic Display: The Altar Wall Murals Of St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster

Mapping Space, Mapping Time: the Thirteenth-century Vault Paintings at Salisbury Cathedral

The Royal Chapel in Iberia

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