Westminster Abbey
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Westminster Abbey

A thousand years of national pageantry

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eBook - ePub

Westminster Abbey

A thousand years of national pageantry

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Profile Books
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781846685347
eBook ISBN
9781847650825

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction
  7. CHAPTER 1 The Medieval Church
  8. CHAPTER 2 Henry VII’s Chapel
  9. CHAPTER 3 Renaissance and Reformation
  10. CHAPTER 4 Death’s Palace
  11. CHAPTER 5 From Baroque to Victorian
  12. CHAPTER 6 The Abbey Imagined
  13. CHAPTER 7 The Church in the City
  14. CHAPTER 8 The Nation’s Shrine
  15. CHAPTER 9 The Site of Ceremony
  16. CHAPTER 10 The Abbey Now
  17. Further Reading
  18. List of Illustrations
  19. Acknowledgements
  20. Index