The Cambridge Cultural History: Volume 2, Medieval Britain  19820

  • Part I: The Cultural and Social Setting
    • The Middle Ages  Derek Pearsall[rtoc]
      • Royal and aristocratic patronage
      • The Church
      • Commercial developments
      • The provinces[/rtoc]
  • Part II: Studies in the Individual Arts
    1. Architecture  Nicola Coldstream[rtoc]
      • Salvation and pilgrimage: shrine, tomb and chantry
      • The Cathedrals of Durham and Wells
      • Rievalux: a Cistercian monastery
      • The art of the carpenter: Westminster Hall and Mildenhall Church
      • The castle builders: Harlech and Caernarfon[/rtoc]
    2. Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk  Nigel Nicolson
    3. Literature and Drama  Stephen Medcalf[rtoc]
      • Literature under the Angevin Empire
      • Images of spring
      • The Ricardian Age: Langland, Chaucer, and the Gawain poet
      • The flowering of ritual and mystery plays: towards the personal
      • Malory and the waning of the Middle Ages[/rtoc]
    4. Festive Culture in Country and Town  Richard Axton
    5. The Visual Arts and Crafts  T. A. Heslop[rtoc]
      • Introduction: artisits, critics, patrons and audience
      • English Romanesque illumination
      • The stained glass windows of Canterbury Cathedral
      • The sculpture of Westminster Abbey
      • The goldsmiths’ craft
      • Opus Anglicanum embroidery
      • The construction and furnishing of the parish church of Salle, Norfolk[/rtoc]
    6. The City of York  R. B. Dobson
    7. Music[rtoc]
      • Introduction: The nature of medieval music  Nick Sandon
      • Religious music
      • Words and the language of music
      • Plainchant
      • Polyphony
      • The survival of notated music in Britain
      • The early fifteenth century: Power and Dunstable
      • Music and links and contrasts with the Continent
      • Secular music  Christopher Page
        • The courtly lyric
        • Dancing songs
        • Songs and minstrelsy
        • Polyphonic secular music: the act of improvisation
      • Musical instruments[/rtoc]
    8. The Working Landscape  Tom Williamson
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