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"Rediscovering Beatrice Roos:

A female patron of stained glass in York Minster"

Professor Sarah Brown

“Rediscovering Beatrice Roos: A female patron of stained glass in York Minster”

New research into the identity of the donor of York Minster's fifteenth-century St William window has shed light on the life of a woman whose identity was very nearly lost to history, but who can now be identified as the most important secular patron of the medieval cathedral.