did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780521818803

Treasures of Silver at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

by
  • ISBN13:

    9780521818803

  • ISBN10:

    052181880X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-01-06
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
  • Write a Review Icon Write a Review
List Price: $72.99 Save up to $27.01
  • Rent Book $45.98
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    TERM
    PRICE
    DUE
    SPECIAL ORDER: 1-2 WEEKS
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Summary

This is an account of the unique assemblage of silver and silver-mounted artefacts belonging to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, some of them dating back to the College's foundation 650 years ago. They include extraordinary objects such as a thirteenth-century drinking vessel made of the horn of an extinct animal, as well as the everyday tools and utensils of past centuries. Although some of them are well known to art historians, they have never been published in detail. The objects are especially significant for being documented in the College's archives from the fourteenth century onwards. The book investigates the objects' construction, how the College came by them, their original meaning and context, how they came to survive the depredations of the Civil War, what happened to those that do not survive, evidence of wear and repair, and what they were (and still are) used for.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Haroon Ahmed
Preface xi
Contractions and acronyms xv
Color plates xvii
Outline of the College's History
1(6)
Introduction to Plate
7(12)
Plate in the College
19(14)
The Great Horn or Bugle
33(14)
Plate of the Gilds: the Coconut Cup
47(6)
Medieval College Plate: Mazers, Seals, and the Knob
53(14)
Parkeriana and Elizabethan Plate
67(30)
C. Hall
Fellow-Commoners and the Civil War
97(14)
Chapel Plate
111(10)
Post-1690 Drinking Vessels
121(18)
Coffee-Pots, also Argyles, Teapots and associated vessels
139(14)
Candlesticks
153(16)
Salvers or Waiters
169(12)
Inkstands or Standishes
181(6)
Casters or Dredgers, Cruet-Frames, Grinders, and the Administration of Sugar
187(8)
Salts and Saltspoons
195(6)
Mustards and Mustard-Spoons
201(4)
Tools or Flatware
205(26)
Instruments of Tobacconing
231(8)
Sporting Plate
239(4)
Things Useful and Extravagant
243(26)
Modernistic Plate
269(6)
Appendix 1: Early Inventories of Plate (O. Rackham and C. Hall) 275(12)
Appendix 2: Analyses of Corpus Plate 287(1)
Appendix 3: Comparative Table of Early Drinking Vessels and Spoons 288(1)
Appendix 4: Wooden Spoons 289(2)
Bibliography 291(2)
Index and glossary 293

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program