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"The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects that oversight, uncovering the active role they undertook in choosing designs, materials, and locations for monuments, and commissioning repairs and additions to many of the parish churches, chantry chapels, and almshouses characteristic of the English countryside. Their preferred art, Barbara J. Harris shows, reveals their responses to the religious reformation and signifies their preferred identities."--Back cover

Cast your students in the roles of reporters, lawyers, and detectives at the scene of a crime with this complete guide of detailed instructions and reproducibles. These interdisciplinary activities, based on an award-winning unit, help build valuable reasoning skills while developing knowledge in areas of language, science, history, and more.||Who did it? How did they do it? Why did they do it? How do you prove it? Cast your students in the roles of reporters, lawyers, and detectives at the scene of a crime with this complete guide of detailed instructions and reproducibles. Excitement builds