Westminster Abbey

A thousand years of national pageantry

Professor Richard Jenkyns (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2011 | Main
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84668-534-7 (ISBN)

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Fifteen royal weddings and thirty-eight coronations - Westminster Abbey will be the venue for a sixteenth royal wedding, that of Kate Middleton and Prince William. It is one of the complex church in the world in terms of its history, functions and memories. This book weaves together the significance of this iconic building and its history.

Westminster Abbey is the most complex church in the world in terms of its history, functions and memories - perhaps the most complex building of any kind. It has been an abbey and a cathedral and is now a collegiate church and a royal peculiar. It is the coronation church, a royal mausoleum, a Valhalla for the tombs of the great, a 'national cathedral' and the 'Tomb of the Unknown Warrior'.

This new edition recounts the story of this iconic building and the role it plays in our national psyche.

Richard Jenkyns is professor of the classical tradition, University of Oxford, and a fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. His previous books include Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance and Virgil's Experience.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2011
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	185 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Bildbände
	Reisen ► Reiseführer
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-84668-534-6 / 1846685346
ISBN-13	978-1-84668-534-7 / 9781846685347
Zustand	Neuware