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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547 is the definitive catalogue to a major V&A exhibition celebrating the glories of late medieval English art and architecture. It also provides a compelling introduction to the age the only publication of such size and scope to cover this important period of English history Leading medieval art historians specialists in political religious social and economic history archaeologists and musicologists have contributed major essays on subjects which encompass wide-ranging aspects of life in this vibrant and influential time- from war and politics to royalty and patronage from religion and the relationship with Europe to music and architecture. A magnificent range of images complements the text presenting the finest works of late medieval art with architecture a major feature at a time when English churches cathedrals and castles were at their most splendid. Many of the remarkable surviving examples of stone and wood sculpture stained glass illuminated manuscripts textiles and gold and silver plate have been gathered together and documented for the first time creating a book of both scholarship and beauty. (OS)