English church monuments in the Middle Ages : history and representation /

This is a comprehensive survey of English medieval church monuments. It examines all types of monument-cross slabs, brasses, incised slabs, and sculpted effigies. It analyzes them in an historical context to show what they reveal of the self image and religious aspirations of those they commemorate.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Saul, Nigel
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Sepulchral monuments, Medieval > England. Art and society > England > History > To 1500. Monuments funéraires médiévaux > Angleterre. CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Carving. Art and society Sepulchral monuments, Medieval England Kunstsoziologie Gotik Grabplastik Grabmal Kirchenbau Grafmonumenten. Kerkgebouwen. Typologie (algemeen) Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland. Gravskulpturer > historia > England > medeltiden. Gravmonument > historia > England > medeltiden. Konst och samhälle > historia > England > före 1500. To 1500 Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Sources for illustrations
Abbreviated references
Antiquaries and historians : the study of monuments
Commemoration in early medieval England
The market : fashion, geography, and clientele
The production of monuments
Choosing a monument
Function and meaning
Composition and design
The monuments of ecclesiastics
Military effigies
The monuments of civilians
The monuments of lawyers
The monuments of women
The cult of the macabre
Inscriptions
Prospect and retrospect
Appendix : a list of sculpted effigial monuments of civilians in England to c. 1500
Bibliography
Index.