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Westminster Abbey: A thousand years of national pageantry

Westminster Abbey: A thousand years of national pageantry

by ProfessorRichardJenkyns (Author)

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Synopsis

Westminster Abbey is the most complex church in the world in terms of its history, functions and memories - perhaps the most complex building of any kind. It has been an abbey and a cathedral and is now a collegiate church and a royal peculiar. It is the coronation church, a royal mausoleum, a Valhalla for the tombs of the great, a 'national cathedral' and the 'Tomb of the Unknown Warrior'. This new edition recounts the story of this iconic building and the role it plays in our national psyche.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 31 Mar 2011
ISBN 10: 1846685346
ISBN 13: 9781846685347
Book Overview: Fifteen royal weddings and thirty-eight coronations - Westminster Abbey was the venue for a sixteenth royal wedding, that of Kate Middleton and Prince William. In this superb book, Jenkyns weaves together with wit and charm the significance of this iconic building and its history.

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Author Bio
Richard Jenkyns is professor of the classical tradition, University of Oxford, and a fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. His previous books include Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance and Virgil's Experience.