English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages

Saul, Nigel

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“…Researchers widely acknowledge that later medieval and early modern church monuments operated, and often continue to operate, as key components in both the secular and sacred landscapes of ecclesiastical buildings. They provide evidence of not only spiritual matters, but also support political ideologies in death (Aries 1977;Binski 1996;Litten 1991;Llewellyn 1991), commemoration (Badham 2015;Valdez del Alamo and Pendergast, 2000;Saul 2009), as well as status and lineage (Saul 2001). However, monuments can also support a sense of place and identity as part of the wider community landscape, and feature in local traditions and folklore from their creation down to the present day.…”

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Public Archaeology of Church Monuments

McEvoy

2018

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Church monuments within the parish church can provide a wealth of information to the public about the history of that community as well as broader social themes. However, traditionally, publicity available on monuments can be limited and churches operate disparate levels of public access and engagement. Where such access and information is available there is a tendency to focus on the most elaborate and anthropomorphic styles, such as effigies, with a concentration on who they represent. This article will consider why church monuments may be important to communities, and the impediments the public may face when engaging with church monuments, ranging from practical reasons such as accessibility, to the provision of misinformation, selective information, or the lack of any resources being provided. Finally, the article will consider how information about, and engagement with, funerary monuments within the parish church setting is consistent, well researched, and publicly available via digital and non-digital media.

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Public Archaeology of Church Monuments

McEvoy

2018

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“…The characters on the grave slabs generally represented idealised figures, often in the prime of life, as they would appear on Judgement Day. 47 It has sometimes been argued that, unlike the laity's monuments, those of the clergy were less commemorations of the individual than of the clerical estate as a whole. 48 On the other hand, as is also visible from our slabs, the commissioners of the slabs paid great attention to the visual and textual expression of the identity.…”

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Vicarius, Canonicus Et Episcopus : Three Late Medieval Grave Slabs From Tartu and Tallinn

Mänd¹

2014

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, an incised Late Medieval grave slab came to light during the archaeological excavations of Tartu Cathedral. 2 The rectangular slab is made of limestone, decorated with the figure of a cleric and with a Latin inscription in Gothic minuscule (Fig. 1). The dimensions of the slab are 207×136 cm, but almost a quarter of it-a large part of the upper left corner-has been lost. Since October 2013, the object, which belongs to Tartu City Museum, has been exhibited under the floor in the foyer of the University of Tartu's History Museum, above a medieval burial chamber (there is no connection between the two). 3 There are two main reasons why this grave slab warrants attention. Firstly, there are very few surviving medieval grave slabs or their fragments in present-day Estonia that are decorated with human figures. 4 Secondly, the inscription allows us to add a new name to the list of cler

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“…Inside parish churches there was stone statuary as memento mori to the wealthy benefactors who paid for the effigies placed in sacred space upon their tombs. 13 This type of memorialisation persisted even after the Reformation: most eighteenthcentury monuments continued to be funerary. 14 Indeed, the creation of statuary specifically for sacred spaces continued into the nineteenth century, instanced by the monument to the statesman William Huskisson paid for by public subscription and erected in Chichester Cathedral in 1832.…”

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Statues, Spatial Syntax and Surrealism: ‘History’ and Heritagescapes in Public Space

Catterall

2023

Trans. R. Hist. Soc.

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The purpose of statues in public spaces has recently become a matter of controversy. Using a 1937 quotation from the artist Paul Nash and the surrealist leader André Breton, this paper explores the circumstances in which a statue is read as appropriately – ‘in its right mind’ in their terms – situated in public space. In doing so, it draws primarily on examples from Britain, Europe and North America during the rapid expansion in the number of statues in public space from the eighteenth century onwards. The rightmindedness of a statue is shown as primarily determined not by the subject of the statue itself, or by its reception among the public, but by ways in which public authorities and local elites authorise the use of public space. Yet these authorities’ understanding of the fit between a statue and public space can vary over time. Shifts in the political context often prompt changes to where statues are seen as appropriately located. However, picking up on Nash/Breton's phrase, to place a statue in ‘a state of surrealism’ involves more than mere relocation. This is shown to require additional disruption to a statue's artistic language and/or spatial syntax.

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English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages

Cited by 29 publications

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Public Archaeology of Church Monuments

Public Archaeology of Church Monuments

Vicarius, Canonicus Et Episcopus : Three Late Medieval Grave Slabs From Tartu and Tallinn

Statues, Spatial Syntax and Surrealism: ‘History’ and Heritagescapes in Public Space

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