English church monuments in the Middle Ages : history and representation / Nigel Saul
2011, 1st edition. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #384235
ISBN: 9780199606139
Physical description; xiii, 413 pp., illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-398) and index. Contents; List of illustrations -- Sources for illustrations -- Abbreviated references -- Antiquaries and historians : the study of monuments -- Commemoration in early medieval England -- The market : fashion, geography, and clientele -- The production of monuments -- Choosing a monument -- Function and meaning -- Composition and design -- The monuments of ecclesiastics -- Military effigies -- The monuments of civilians -- The monuments of lawyers -- The monuments of women -- The cult of the macabre -- Inscriptions -- Prospect and retrospect -- Appendix : a list of sculpted effigial monuments of civilians in England to c. 1500 -- Bibliography -- Index. Subjects; Church of England. Tombs and monuments. Art and society.
Price: €65.00