Richard Jenkyns

Westminster Abbey (eBook, ePUB)

A thousand years of national pageantry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847650825
• Artikelnr.: 38355626

Autorenporträt

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.