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Wells grew up in North Yorkshire, on the fringes of the Yorkshire Dales, where her grandmother instilled a passion for medieval architecture. [7] She attended a Church of England primary school before being educated at St Francis Xavier (Roman Catholic) School in Richmond and the University of York, where she read Art History and Buildings Archaeology. She was awarded her Doctorate from Durham University in 2013 with a thesis entitled "An Archaeology of Sensory Experience: Pilgrimage in the Medieval Church c.1170–c.1550". [8] Career [ edit ]

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WELLS, EMMA (30 January 2013). An Archaeology of Sensory Experience: Pilgrimage in the Medieval Church, c.1170-c.1550 (Doctoral). Durham University – via etheses.dur.ac.uk. The Oxford Literary Festival has in my mind become the leading literary festival of the year. The organisation, the roster of speakers, the ambience and the sheer quality of it all is superb. May it now go from strength to strength each year stretching its ambition more and more. I believe it will. This New TV Series Explores the Fascinating History of Homes All Over the World". House Beautiful. 18 June 2020.

The creation of the Gothic style in twelfth-century France proclaimed the dawning of a new era which swept across Europe during the later middle ages. An enterprise of ‘cathedral makers’, sustained by kings, chapters, abbots and nobles of European high society, mobilised an expansive programme of building in a quest to literally build Heaven on Earth. Throughout Christendom, these magnificent skyscrapers of glass and stone began to dominate the landscape of many cities, towns and even the smallest of villages. Emma Jane Wells, FSA (born 1986) is an English church historian, academic, author, and broadcaster, specialising in the ecclesiastical and architectural history of the late medieval and early modern age. She is currently a lecturer in Ecclesiastical and Architectural History at the University of York. [1] Wells is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA), [2] a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a founding member of the Centre for Parish Church Studies (CPCS). [3] [4] Dr. Emma is a renowned academic, author and broadcaster within the topics of ecclesiastical & architectural history. She received her BA (Hons) in History of Art and her MA (Dist.) in Buildings Archaeology from the University of York, following up with a PhD from Durham University which focussed on archaeological aspects of pilgrimage in the English medieval church. Wells, Emma J. (2013) "'...he went round the holy places praying and offering': Evidence for Cuthbertine Pilgrimage to Lindisfarne and Farne in the Late Medieval Period" in Ashbee, J. and J. Luxford (eds) Newcastle and Northumberland: Roman and Medieval Architecture and Art. Leeds: Maney, 214–31. ISBN 978-1907975929 Emma J. Wells has written an accessible, authoritative and lavishly illustrated account of the building of 16 of ‘the world’s greatest cathedrals… The book gives full weight to the wealth of legends associated with cathedrals.Writer and broadcaster Dr Emma Wells explains the history of 16 of the world’s greatest cathedrals and tells the extraordinary stories of the people that built them. The night in Oxford was the most beautiful event I have ever done. Not just the spectacular setting (of the Sheldonian), but an unforgettable evening. I soon felt that this cathedral was, somehow, mine. It was an odd sense of ownership, given that my stint in Cambridge was only a year long, and that Catholic worship had ceased there some 500 years earlier. But perhaps this is, after all, the point of cathedrals. Embedded in the local, they point to the universal and remind us that the communion of the Church is not a series of local franchises of a larger corporation, but living (and hopefully lively) communities of the faithful, sharing in the communion of the wider Church. The rebuilding of Canterbury Cathedral following the fire of 1174 is a project we can still experience today. Over a million people from across the globe are welcomed through the doors at Canterbury every year.But this is just one story. The interior of the Abbey Church of St-Denis, just outside Paris. It was here, during renovation work from 1137, that already existing elements of what we now call Gothic – including the pointed arches and ribbed vaulting shown here – were brought together as a ‘unified whole’.