St Stephen`s College, Westminster – A Royal Chapel and English Kingship, 1348–1…

St Stephen's College, WestminsterA Royal Chapel and English Kingship, 1348-1548\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth Biggs\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783274956, 978-1783274956\nSynopsis\nFirst full-length account of St Stephen's Chapel, bringing out its full importance and influence throughout the Middle Ages.\n\nIn St Stephen's College, the royally-favoured religious institution at the heart of the busy administrative world of the Palace of Westminster, church and state met and collaborated for two centuries, from its foundation to pray for the royal dead by Edward III in 1348, until it was swept away by the second wave of the Reformation in 1548. Monarchs and visitors worshipped in the distinctive chapel on the Thames riverfront. Even when the king and his household were absent, the college's architecture, liturgy and musical strength proclaimed royal piety and royal support for the Church to all who passed by.\.