Historical Memorials Westminster Abbey Arthur Penrhy… Paperback 9781108080316 VG

Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey\n\nIn this 1869 work, Stanley describes the history of Westminster Abbey, the place of coronations and one of England's greatest buildings.\n\nArthur Penrhyn Stanley (Author)\n\n9781108080316 (SKU 3275160), Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 7 September 2017\n\n800 pages\n21.6 x 14.2 x 5.1 cm, 1.04 kg\n\nArthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815\u201381), Dean of Westminster, modelled this 1868 work, of which the third, revised edition of 1869 is reissued here, on his 1854 Historical Memorials of Canterbury (also available in this series). It was conceived as part of the celebration of the eight-hundredth anniversary of the consecration of the abbey in 1065, and consists of essays on aspects of the abbey's central role in English history, particularly as the coronation place of monarchs of England, and the location of many royal tombs. Stanley draws on both the manuscript archives of the abbey and on the work of earlier historia]