Death, Art, and Memory in Medieval England

The Cobham Family and Their Monuments, 1300-1500
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-820746-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

In this innovative and compelling book Nigel Saul approaches the world of the medieval gentry through the monuments they left behind them. The Cobham family left the largest and most spectacular collection of brasses in Britain in their church at Cobham, and other magnificent brasses in Lingfield, and elsewhere. Medieval brasses have hitherto been studied chiefly from an antiquarian or technical perspective; Nigel Saul for the first time shows how they served as a link between the living and the dead. Commemoration was inseparable from the wider dynamics of society. Through the brasses and through family history he takes us to the heart of gentry aspirations and fears, successes and disappointments. This extensively illustrated study offers a new paradigm for the study of medieval church monuments and makes a major contribution to our understanding of gentry culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saul, Nigel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Nicht-Graphische Kunstformen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction: Problem and Method

- 2: The Cobhams: The Family and their Experience

- 3: Cobham Church and College

- 4: The Market for Brasses

- 5: The Brasses at Cobham

- 6: The Cobhams of Sterborough

- 7: The Brasses and Monuments at Lingfield

- 8: Brasses Elsewhere to the Cobhams

- 9: Conclusion: Lineage and Commemoration

- Appendix; Genealogies; Bibliography; Index