Stone Fidelity : Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
ISBN-10
1783276940
ISBN-13
9781783276943
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint
The Boydell Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 14th, 2022
Print length
354 Pages
Weight
668 grams
Dimensions
17.00 x 23.90 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600History of art
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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.
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.
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