Wingfield College and its Patrons: Piety and prestige in medieval Suffolk
The 650th anniversary of the foundation of Wingfield College was the occasion for a special two-day symposium marking the culmination of a three-year UEA-funded research project into the college and castle. The building projects of the late medieval aristocracy focused on their homes and the monasteries, churches or chantry foundations under their patronage where their family were buried and commemorated. This commemoration allowed a visual celebration of their achievements, status and lineage, the scale and prestige of which reflected on the fortunes of the family as a whole. Wingfield is explored in the context of both the actual building of the castle, chantry chapel and the college, and that of the symbolic function of these as a demonstration ion of aristocratic status.
The contributions to this book examine many topics which have hitherto been neglected, such as the archaeology of the castle, which had never been excavated, the complex history of the college's architecture, and the detailed study of the monuments in the church. The latest techniques are used to reconstruct the college and castle, with a DVD to demonstrate these. And the context of the family and its fortunes are explored in chapters on the place of the de la Poles in fifteenth century history, as soldiers, administrators and potential claimants to the throne.
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Wingfield College and its Patrons: Piety and prestige in medieval Suffolk
The 650th anniversary of the foundation of Wingfield College was the occasion for a special two-day symposium marking the culmination of a three-year UEA-funded research project into the college and castle. The building projects of the late medieval aristocracy focused on their homes and the monasteries, churches or chantry foundations under their patronage where their family were buried and commemorated. This commemoration allowed a visual celebration of their achievements, status and lineage, the scale and prestige of which reflected on the fortunes of the family as a whole. Wingfield is explored in the context of both the actual building of the castle, chantry chapel and the college, and that of the symbolic function of these as a demonstration ion of aristocratic status.
The contributions to this book examine many topics which have hitherto been neglected, such as the archaeology of the castle, which had never been excavated, the complex history of the college's architecture, and the detailed study of the monuments in the church. The latest techniques are used to reconstruct the college and castle, with a DVD to demonstrate these. And the context of the family and its fortunes are explored in chapters on the place of the de la Poles in fifteenth century history, as soldiers, administrators and potential claimants to the throne.
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Wingfield College and its Patrons: Piety and prestige in medieval Suffolk

Wingfield College and its Patrons: Piety and prestige in medieval Suffolk

Overview

The 650th anniversary of the foundation of Wingfield College was the occasion for a special two-day symposium marking the culmination of a three-year UEA-funded research project into the college and castle. The building projects of the late medieval aristocracy focused on their homes and the monasteries, churches or chantry foundations under their patronage where their family were buried and commemorated. This commemoration allowed a visual celebration of their achievements, status and lineage, the scale and prestige of which reflected on the fortunes of the family as a whole. Wingfield is explored in the context of both the actual building of the castle, chantry chapel and the college, and that of the symbolic function of these as a demonstration ion of aristocratic status.
The contributions to this book examine many topics which have hitherto been neglected, such as the archaeology of the castle, which had never been excavated, the complex history of the college's architecture, and the detailed study of the monuments in the church. The latest techniques are used to reconstruct the college and castle, with a DVD to demonstrate these. And the context of the family and its fortunes are explored in chapters on the place of the de la Poles in fifteenth century history, as soldiers, administrators and potential claimants to the throne.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781843838326
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date: 09/17/2015
Pages: 289
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

MARK BAILEY was recently High Master of St Paul's School, London, and a visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was previously a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and is now the Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. His numerous publications include Medieval Suffolk. An economic and social history 1200-1500 (2007) and After the Black Death. Economy, society and the law in fourteenth-century England (2021).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

List of Contributors xi

List of Abbreviations xii

Introduction: Peter Bloore and Edward Martin 1

The Founding of the College

1 From Hall-and-Church Complex to Castle Green and College - A Landscape History of Wingfield Edward Martin 9

2 Sir John de Wingfield and the Foundation of Wingfield College Mark Bailey 31

3 Wingfield College and the Late Medieval Cult of Purgatory Eamon Duffy 49

4 The Foundation and Surrender of Wingfield College: The Texts of the Original Foundation Charter of 1362 and the Surrender Document of 1542, with Explanatory Notes 61

The Medieval Structures

5 Reconstructing Wingfield Castle Robert Liddiard 77

6 Historical Digital Reconstruction: The Role of Creativity and Known Unknowns - A Case Study of Wingfield College Peter Bloore 97

7 Medieval Monuments to the de la Pole and Wingfield Families Sally Badham 135

8 Chapel or Closet? The Question of the Vestry at Wingfield John Goodall 177

The Later History

9 Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk (d+1475), and her East Anglian Estates Rowena E. Archer 187

10 The Wars of the Roses, the Downfall of the de la Poles and the Dissolution of Wingfield College Diarmaict MacCulloch 207

Appendix: Historical Timeline for Wingfield College 221

Bibliography 229

Index 239

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