The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia
C S Drake, 2003. (updated 2010) https://doi.org/10.5284/1000229. How to cite using this DOI
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Introduction
Text and images from C.S. Drake's book, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia (2001) have been archived with the Archaeology Data Service.
After a brief introduction covering the history of baptism and the ways in which changes in the rite influenced the design of the baptismal vessel, the work surveys in separate chapters the stone fonts of Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, with a final chapter on metal fonts. There are comprehensive location and subject indexes, and appendices which list the fonts of each country by type. The text is complemented by line drawings and nearly 400 plates. The author has personally examined almost 1,500 fonts, including all those mentioned in the text, but the Location Index contains some 4,500 entries. His objective has been to examine personally both examples of all known identifiable groups of fonts and the most important individual pieces, and to present them in a manner which will aid future research. It is, in effect, a catalogue raisonné. His forthcoming project is the publication of a second, related, book, The History and Iconography of Baptism in the Middle Ages.
Text and images from the book are available on-line through the downloads page. Enquiries about the hard copy publication should be directed to the publisher, Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
