Secret Spaces: Sacred Treasuries in England 1066–1320 / / Lesley Milner.

• Superior document: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; 23
• VerfasserIn: Milner, Lesley,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; 23; Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 pages)

The medieval treasure house, consisting of sacristy, vestry and treasure rooms was the depository for the ecclesiastical treasure belonging to a church, holy vessels, vestments, altar hangings, candlesticks and priceless liturgical books and reliquaries. It was carefully designed to convey the messa...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Figures
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Treasure House, Its Chambers and Function
• 1 Location and Function
• 1.1 Location
• 1.2 Function
• 1.2.1 Storage of Eucharistic Vessels and the Sacrament
• 1.2.2 Washing of Eucharistic Vessels and Cloths
• 1.2.3 Storage of Ecclesiastical Treasures
• Chapter 2 Precedents of English Treasure Houses
• 1 Treasure Houses of the Bible
• Chapter 3 Hidden Assets: Conserving the Treasures of the Great Norman Monasteries, Part 1
• 1 Early Norman Benedictine Sacristies and Treasure Rooms
• 1.1 Canterbury
• 1.2 Winchester
• 1.3 Ely
• 1.4 Gloucester
• 2 Cistercian Sacristies and Treasure Rooms
• Chapter 4 Hidden Assets: Conserving the Treasures of the Great Norman Monasteries, Part 2
• 1 Ely
• 2 Canterbury
• Chapter 5 Hidden Assets: Conserving the Treasures of the Great Norman Monasteries, Part 3
• 1 The 'Treasury' at Winchester Cathedral
• 2 The Vestiarium at Canterbury Cathedral
• Chapter 6 Treasure Houses of Secular Canons, Part 1
• 1 Old Sarum, St Osmund's Church
• 2 Old Sarum, Bishop Roger's Church
• 3 Hereford Cathedral
• 4 The Treasure House of Ripon Minster
• 5 The Treasure House of Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim
• 6 The Plans and Forms of the Treasure Houses of Ripon Minster and Trondheim Cathedral
• Chapter 7 Treasure Houses of Secular Canons, Part 2
• 1 Salisbury
• 2 The Treasure House of the Cathedral of Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, Northern France
• 3 Beverley Minster
• 4 Wells Cathedral
• Chapter 8 The Treasure Chambers of Westminster Abbey, 1245-69
• 1 The Treasure of Westminster Abbey
• 1.1 Altar Treasures
• 1.2 Relics
• 1.3 The Regalia
• 1.4 Money
• 1.5 Documents
• 2 The 11th-Century Abbey and Church (Begun 1042)
• 3 Henry III's Abbey Church at Westminster.
• 4 Treasure Chamber 1: St Faith's Chapel, the Sacristy of Henry III's Church
• 5 Treasure Room 2: the Chapter House Crypt
• 6 Treasure Room 3: the Muniment Room
• 7 Treasure Room 4: the Sacristaria
• Chapter 9 The Treasure Houses of Secular Canons at Lichfield, Lincoln, and Exeter Cathedrals, c.1250-1300
• 1 Lichfield Cathedral Treasure House
• 2 Lincoln Cathedral Treasure House
• 3 The Treasure Houses of Exeter Cathedral
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.