Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe /

This study investigates commemorative practices in Cyprus, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. Offering a broad overview of memorialization practices across Europe and the Mediterranean, individual chapters examine local customs through...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Leader, Anne (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sepulchral monuments.
Middle class > Tombs > Europe > History.
Sepulchral monuments > Europe > History.
Europe.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Recycling for eternity : the reuse of ancient sarcophagi by Pisan merchants, 1200-1400 / Karen Rose Mathews
  • Nuremberg merchants in Breslau (1440-1520) : commemoration as assimilation / Agnieszka Patala
  • The sepulchralization of renaissance Florence / Anne Leader
  • "Under the tombe that I have there prepared" : monuments for the tailors and merchant tailors of medieval London / Christian Steer
  • Tombs and the imago doctoris in cathedra in northern Italy, ca. 1300-1364 / Ruth Wolff
  • "Middle-class" men who would be nobles in fifteenth-century Castile, Flanders, and Burgundy / Ann Adams, Nicola Jennings
  • Remembering the dead, planning the afterlife in fifteenth-century Tuscany : the case of Cione di Ravi / Sandra Cardarelli
  • Appendix : testament of Cione di Ravi
  • Noble aspirations : social mobility and commemoration in two seventeenth-century Venetian funerary monuments / Meredith Crosbie
  • Commemoration through food : obits celebrated by the Franciscan nuns of late medieval Strasbourg / Charlotte A. Stanford
  • The panel painting as a choice for family commemoration : the case of fifteenth-century patrons on Cyprus / Barbara McNulty
  • The knight and the merchant : familial commemorative strategy in the wake of the Flemish revolts ca. 1482-1492 / Harriette Peel.

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