Stone Fidelity
Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture
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2022
The Boydell Press (Verlag)
978-1-78327-694-3 (ISBN)
The Boydell Press (Verlag)
978-1-78327-694-3 (ISBN)
Pioneering investigation of the popular "double tomb" effigies in the Middle Ages.
2022 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period before 1600
2021 International Center of Medieval Art Annual Book Prize
Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side, and hand in hand, immortalised in elegantly carved stone: what Philip Larkin's poem An Arundel Tomb later described as their "stone fidelity".
This first full account of the "double tomb" 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 "double tomb" 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.
Published with the generous financial assistance of the Henry Moore Foundation.
2022 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period before 1600
2021 International Center of Medieval Art Annual Book Prize
Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side, and hand in hand, immortalised in elegantly carved stone: what Philip Larkin's poem An Arundel Tomb later described as their "stone fidelity".
This first full account of the "double tomb" 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 "double tomb" 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.
Published with the generous financial assistance of the Henry Moore Foundation.
Dr JESSICA BARKER is a Lecturer in Medieval Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Introduction
The Double Tomb: Marriage, Symbol and Society
Love's Rhetorical Power: The Royal Tomb
Gender, Agency and the Much-Married Woman
Holding Hands: Gesture, Sign, Sacrament
Epilogue
Gazetteer of Hand-Joining Monuments
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.06.2022 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture |
| Zusatzinfo | 33 colour, 63 b/w, 2 line illus. |
| Verlagsort | Woodbridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 1 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78327-694-0 / 1783276940 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78327-694-3 / 9781783276943 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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