Stone Fidelity (eBook)

Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture

Jessica Barker (Autor)

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2020
354 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
978-1-78744-692-2 (ISBN)

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Pioneering investigation of the popular "e;double tomb"e; effigies in the Middle Ages.Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side, and hand in hand, immortalised in elegantly carved stone: what Phiilip Larkin's poem An Arundel Tomb later described as their "e;stone fidelity"e;. This first full account of the "e;double tomb"e; places its rich tradition into dialogue with powerful discourses of gender, marriage, politics and emotion during the Middle Ages. As well as offering new interpretations of some of the most famous medieval tombs, such as those found in Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral, it draws attention to a host of lesser-known memorials from throughout Europe, providing an innovative vantage point from which to reconsider the material culture of medieval marriage. Setting these twin effigies alongside wedding rings and dresses as the agents of matrimonial ritual and embodied symbolism, the author presents the "e;double tomb"e; as far more than mere romantic sentiment. Rather, it reveals the careful artifice beneath their seductive emotional surfaces: the artistic, religious, political and legal agendas underlying the medieval rhetoric of married love. Dr JESSICA BARKER is a Lecturer in Medieval Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Published with the generous financial assistance of the Henry Moore Foundation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.4.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
• Reihe/Serie: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
• Zusatzinfo: 33 colour, 63 b/w, 2 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Schlagworte: Alice Chaucer • Anne of Bohemia • Canterbury Cathedral • church interiors • commemorating the dead • ecclesiastical material culture • England • funeral effigies • Gender • João I, King of Portugal • John of Gaunt • Margaret Holland, duchess of Clarence • Momento mori • monastery of Batalha • Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal • Portugal • Richard II • stone effigies • the body • Tomb decoration • Westminster Abbey
• ISBN-10: 1-78744-692-1 / 1787446921
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78744-692-2 / 9781787446922