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  • 16 - Art and Architecture

  • from Part IV - Representations
  • Edited by Gwilym Dodd, University of Nottingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Late Medieval English Kingship
    Published online:
    03 November 2025
    Print publication:
    20 November 2025, pp 323-358

  • Summary

    Late medieval kings varied in their level of personal interest in the visual arts and architecture. Henry III sent his workmen detailed and impatient personal directives for the commissioning of vestments, liturgical furnishings and the decoration of palaces and chapels. In 1447–8, Henry VI ordered his new college of Eton to be built in the fashionable Perpendicular architectural style. Yet for all late medieval kings, images, buildings and material objects played an important role in projecting, representing and inviting wider reflection on their power and authority.