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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.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Art --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Women and religion --- Upper class women --- Art patronage --- Church decoration and ornament --- Church architecture --- Religious art --- Sacred art --- Ecclesiastical architecture --- Rood-lofts --- Christian art and symbolism --- Religious architecture --- Architecture, Gothic --- Church buildings --- Church ornament --- Ecclesiastical decoration and ornament --- Decoration and ornament --- Interior decoration --- Religious articles --- Arts patronage --- Business patronage of the arts --- Corporations --- Maecenatism --- Patronage of art --- Art and industry --- Women --- Religion and women --- Women in religion --- Religion --- Sexism in religion --- History --- England --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- Church history --- Female patronage of architecture. --- Yorkist and early Tudor aristocratic women. --- architecture, 1450-1550. --- female piety. --- parish churches.