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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, commissioning repairs and additions to many parish churches, chantry chapels, and almshouses characteristic of the English countryside. Their preferred art, Barbara J. Harris shows, reveals their responses to the religious revolution and signifies their preferred identities.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Tombs: Honoring the Dead -- 2 Chantries: The Quest for Perpetual Prayers -- 3 Building for the Congregation: Roofs, Aisles, and Stained Glass -- 4 Adorning the Liturgy: Luxury Fabrics and Chapel Plate -- 5 Almshouses and Schools: Prayers and Service to the Community -- 6 Defining Themselves -- 7 Epilogue: Destruction and Survival -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 - Patrons of the Fabric of the Church -- Appendix 2 - Patrons of Tombs -- Appendix 3 - Location of Tombs in Churches -- Appendix 4 - Choice of Burial Companion -- Appendix 5 - Women Who Commissioned Chantries -- Appendix 6 - Commissions of Stained-Glass Windows -- Appendix 7 - Additions or Major Repairs to Churches -- Appendix 8 - Bequests of Vestments -- Appendix 9 - Patrons of Almshouses or Schools -- Glossary -- Select Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Illustrations -- Figure 1 - Monument of Sir Thomas Barnardiston (1503) and his widow, Dame Elizabeth (d. 1526). Church at Kedington, Suffolk. Photograph by the author, 2003. -- Figure 2 - Sir Richard Fitzlewis (1528) and his four wives*. Church at West Horndon, Essex. Commissioned by his fourth wife, Jane, née Hornby Norton Fitzlewis. Permission of the Monumental Brass Society, UK. -- Figure 3 - Ecclesiastical embroidery, Elizabeth Scrope Beaumont de Vere (1539), widow of fourteenth Earl of Oxford*. Once an enriched vestment belonging to her private chapel. She may have bequeathed it to Wivenhoe, the Essex church where she was buried. R -- Figure 4 - Westmorland altar cloth*. Figures of Ralph, the fourth Earl of Westmorland (1549) and his wife Catherine Stafford, daughter of the third Duke of Buckingham (1555). Textiles store, museum no. 35-1888. Permission of the Victoria and Albert Museum

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