The cathedral landscape of York : the Minster Close, c. 1500-1642
This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of the York Minster Close between c.1500 and 1642. It seeks to develop a contextual understanding of the topographical and morphological development of York cathedral Close between the late fifteenth and the mid seventeenth century. The cathedral settlement represented a rare concentration of economic, temporal and spiritual power within medieval society. This study aims to establish the impact on the cathedral landscape of contemporary social, political and religious changes, including the Reformation. It explores the growing tensions between the Archbishop and Dean and Chapter and between the cathedral and the city. It also tries to understand how the heterogeneous communities who inhabited and frequented the Close were connected to ideas of landscape and environment. Finally it is concerned with the Close as an urban space and it will question how processes of urban change, such as decay and improvement, affected it. Although the sources used for investigating the material culture of the Close are in great part documentary, the theoretical approach taken is drawn from post-processualist archaeology, interpretative anthropology and new history. The overall aim is
Merlo Perring, Stefania
The cathedral landscape of York : the Minster Close, c. 1500-1642. This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of the York Minster Close between c.1500 and 1642. It seeks to develop a contextual understanding of the topographical and morphological development of York cathedral Close between the late fifteenth and the mid seventeenth century. The cathedral settlement represented a rare concentration of economic, temporal and spiritual power within medieval society. This study aims to establish the impact on the cathedral landscape of contemporary social, political and religious changes, including the Reformation. It explores the growing tensions between the Archbishop and Dean and Chapter and between the cathedral and the city. It also tries to understand how the heterogeneous communities who inhabited and frequented the Close were connected to ideas of landscape and environment. Finally it is concerned with the Close as an urban space and it will question how processes of urban change, such as decay and improvement, affected it. Although the sources used for investigating the material culture of the Close are in great part documentary, the theoretical approach taken is drawn from post-processualist archaeology, interpretative anthropology and new history. The overall aim is
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