Stone fidelity : marriage and emotion in Medieval tomb sculpture /

Pioneering investigation of the popular ""double tomb"" effigies in the Middle Ages.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barker, Jessica (Lecturer in art history) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2020.
Series:Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture.
Subjects:
Sepulchral monuments, Medieval > Europe.
Sepulchral monuments, Medieval > Great Britain.
Marriage in art.
Monuments funéraires médiévaux > Europe.
Monuments funéraires médiévaux > Grande-Bretagne.
Mariage dans l'art.
Marriage in art
Sepulchral monuments, Medieval
Europe
Great Britain
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontcover
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • An Arundel Tomb
  • Medieval Marriage
  • Emotion and the "Expressivity" of Gothic Art
  • 1 The Double Tomb: Marriage, Symbol and Society
  • The Emergence of the Double Tomb
  • Burial, Monument and the Time of Death
  • Memorialising Marriage and the Image of the Bride
  • Queer Tombs
  • Symbols and Society
  • 2 Love's Rhetorical Power: The Royal Tomb
  • Corpse and Effigy
  • The King's Two Bodies
  • Richard II and Anne of Bohemia
  • João I and Philippa of Lancaster
  • Love, Beyond Two Bodies
  • 3 Gender, Agency and the Much-Married Woman
  • The Concept of Bigamy
  • Funerary Schemes of Much-Married Women
  • The Holland Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral
  • Remarriage, Reburial and Resurrection
  • With or Without Men
  • 4 Holding Hands: Gesture, Sign, Sacrament
  • Gesture as "Figure"
  • A Sacramental Sign
  • Production and Patronage
  • The Legal Dimension
  • Ritual as Image
  • Situation and Spectatorship
  • What Will Survive of Us Is Love?
  • Epilogue
  • Artifice and Emotion
  • Gender and Convention
  • Bodily Metaphors
  • Gazetteer of Hand-Joining Monuments
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names and Places
  • Thematic Index

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