Monuments and Monumentality Across Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Proceedings of the 2011 Stirling Conference - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1907730281 ISBN 13: 9781907730283

Publisher: Shaun Tyas, 2013

Synopsis

Tombs and grave markers provide evidence for the spiritual, political and material culture of the past, through the upheavals of Reformation and Revolution have often caused the destruction of early memorials. Nevertheless, much can be learnt by the study of surviving monuments and the sacred spaces in which they lie. This important collection of twenty essays, based on an international and multi-disciplinary conference held at Stirling in 2011, considers the motivation, meaning and materials of tomb sculpture not just within their contemporary setting but also their often-dramatic afterlife, which can include commemoration, decay, destruction, clearance, renovation and 'heritage commercialisation'. The volume ranges from the British Isles and Scandinavia to France, Portugal, Italy and Poland, from the eleventh to the early seventeenth centuries. It draws on an ever-increasing body of documentary and material evidence for monuments, such as the Danish Royal Tombs Project or the Corpus of Medieval Scottish Parish Churches. A number of papers investigate the ideologies in the design of tombs for the elites, others illustrate such rich themes as liturgical practice and development, female agency, clerical identity and the interplay of symbols and texts, and there are invaluable studies of the grave markers of the lower social orders as well as of aristocractic, clerical and monarchical elites. There is a full index. The contributors in order of appearance are: Michael Penman; Iain Fraser; Øystein Ekroll; Brian and Moira Gittos; Karin Kryger; Sanne Frequin; Catherine Richardson; Jude Jones; Claire Bartram; Stephen Lamia; Joana Ramóa Melo; Richard Fawcett; Jeannie J. Łabno; David Lepine; Richard D. Oram; Sheila Sweetinburgh; Stephen Mark Holmes; Michael Hicks; Michael Penman; Birgitte Bøggild Johannsen; and Andrew Spicer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Shaun Tyas
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1907730281
• ISBN 13: 9781907730283
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Michael Penman