| RECENT PUBLICATIONS |
This section is now produced by Oliver Harris with contributions from Sally Badham, Paul Cockerham, Philip Lankester, Sophie Oosterwijk, Andrew Sargent and others. We all wish to thank Philip Lankester who produced the Recent Publications for any years but has now handed over to Oliver.
Originally the older Recent Publications was removed from the website, for the reasons of limited space, when a new edition arrived. Then when we obtained more web space this section merely tagged the latest Recent Publications onto the end of the previous Recent Publications so that this section became not only increasingly lengthy but effectively upside down. This has now been revised: this section will contain only the current Recent Publications; all the previous material has been moved elsewhere but may be accessed here. The current Latest Publications will eventually be tagged onto this list as before when a new edition is received.
I hope the long and unweildly list will be of interest to some and hopefully one day it will be edited.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Oliver Harris, with contributions from Sally Badham, Rhianydd Biebrach, Philip Lankester, Sophie Oosterwijk & Andrew Sargent
Oliver Harris, with contributions from Sally Badham, Rhianydd Biebrach, Philip Lankester, Sophie Oosterwijk & Andrew Sargent
Rob Atkins & Elizabeth Popescu, 2010, ‘Excavations at the Hospital of St Mary Magdalen, Partney, Lincolnshire’, Medieval Archaeology, 54, 204-70
A report on the first major excavation of a minor rural medieval hospital. The cemetery appeared to have separate areas for religious and lay burial. The graves included four, presumed to belong to priests, containing the remains of pewter chalices; and another individual apparently buried in a locked coffin or chest.
Adriano Aymonino, 2010, ‘Decorum and celebration of the family line: Robert Adam’s monuments to the 1st Duchess of Northumberland’, Burlington Mag, 52 (no 1286: May 2010), 288-96
Examines the twin commissions to commemorate Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (d. 1776): a ‘public’ monument in Westminster Abbey and a ‘private’ cenotaph at Alnwick, both designed by Robert Adam and executed by Nicholas Read.
Sally Badham (ed), 2010, One Thousand Years of English Church Monuments: a special edition of Ecclesiology Today, 43 (160pp; many b/w illus; pbk; ISBN 978-0-946823-14-7) Copies are available at £10 (to non-members of the Ecc. Soc.), post free in the UK: cheques payable to the ‘Ecclesiological Society’ at PO Box 287, New Malden KT3 4YT; or contact info@ecclsoc.org.
This special edition of the journal of the Ecclesiological Society, guest-edited by the president of the CMS, is dedicated to church monuments. It contains the following articles: Paul Cockerham, ‘Lineage, liturgy and locus: the changing role of English funeral monuments’; Brian & Moira Gittos, ‘Abused, neglected and forgotten: the story of the medieval cross slab’; Sophie Oosterwijk, ‘Deceptive appearances: the presentation of children on medieval tombs’; Nigel Saul, ‘What an epitaph can tell us: recovering the world of John Lovekyn; Sally Badham, ‘Commemoration in brass and glass of the Blackburn family of York’; Jon Bayliss, ‘“Flouds are due unto this stone”: English verse epitaphs at Alderton, Wiltshire’; Jean Wilson, ‘He loved his mother: memorials to mothers in the early modern period’; Kerry Bristol, ‘Private act or public commemoration? The Yorke family and the eighteenth-century church monument’; Jane Kelsall, ‘Mourning the dead in the nineteenth century: neoclassical, romantic and gothic revival monuments’; Julian W S Litten, ‘Pastiche or fake? A sub-Gill monument at Brandwood End Cemetery, Birmingham’.
Sophie Balace & Alexandra de Poorter (eds), 2010, Entre Paradis et Enfer: mourir au moyen âge (Mercatorfonds: Antwerp. 288pp; 250 col illus; ISBN 978 90 6153 959 9; pbk; €39.95. Published simultaneously in Dutch by the same publisher and by Amsterdam Univ Pr as Tussen Hemel en Hel: sterven in de middeleeuwen. ISBN 978 90 6153 958 2; ISBN 978 90 8964 316 2)
A wide-ranging collection of essays on medieval death and commemoration to accompany an exhibition at the Jubelparkmuseum, Brussels, running until 24th April. Contributions include Ronald van Belle on funerary monuments from the 12th to 16th centuries; Hubert de Witte on funerary painting in the Bruges region in the later middle ages; and Brigitte Meijns on the burial of territorial princes from the 9th to 13th centuries.
Luke Barber & Lucy Siburn, 2010, ‘The medieval hospital of St Nicholas, Lewes, East Sussex’, Sussex Archaeol Collns, 148, 79-109
Excavation in advance of redevelopment found little structural evidence of the hospital, and part of the cemetery including 103 burials was examined. Burial practices and pathology are discussed. One burial was manacled – perhaps a violent patient?
Gary Calland, 2010, St Peter’s, Stourton: a tour and history of the church (100+ pp; illus; pbk; £12) Available from Stourhead Shop, National Trust Car Park, High Street, Stourton, Warminster BA12 6SH: cheques payable to ‘National Trust Enterprises Ltd.’
A superior guide to the medieval church lying at the approach to the great Palladian mansion of Stourhead, Wiltshire, by the former house manager. Discusses the fine collection of 16th- to 19th-century monuments, mainly commemorating the Stourton and Hoare (banking) families, and considers the identity of a 14th-century effigy.
Paul Cockerham, 2010, ‘The import of choice: Flemish incised slabs in fourteenth-century Britain’, AVISTA Forum J, 20, 77
Brian Connell & Adrian Miles, 2010, The City Bunhill Burial Ground, Golden Lane, London: excavations at South Islington schools, 2006, Archaeology Studies Ser 21 (Museum of London Archaeology: London. 60pp; 62 b/w & col illus; ISBN 978-1-901992-91-5; pbk; £9)
The cemetery operated as a nonconformist burial ground from 1833-1853, during which time over 18,000 burials took place. 248 burials were excavated from a sample area. Sections address burial rite, coffin furniture and the structure and pathology of the population. Historical sources are used to fill out the picture.
Mark Connelly & Peter Donaldson, 2010, ‘South African War (1899-1902) memorials in Britain: a case study of memorialization in London and Kent’, War & Society, 29.1, 20-46
Discusses the ‘pre-history’ of mass public commemoration of war dead (anticipating the memorials of the two world wars), and examines the processes by which communal memorials were erected in London and Kent.
Mark Downing, 2010, Military Effigies of England & Wales, Volume 1: Bedfordshire-Derbyshire (Monumental Books: Shrewsbury. 149pp; 259 b/w illus; ISBN 978-0-9537065-1-8; pbk);
Mark Downing, 2011, Military Effigies of England & Wales, Volume 2: Devon-Essex (Monumental Books: Shrewsbury. 123pp; 207 b/w illus; ISBN 978-0-9537065-2-5; pbk). Copies available at £20 + £4 p&p each, or £40 + £5 p&p for both volumes, from the author at 9 Kestrel Drive, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 4TT
The first two volumes in a projected series of eight, which will form a comprehensive catalogue of all military effigies in England and Wales up to 1500, excluding brasses and incised slabs. Each effigy is illustrated. These volumes deal with English counties only: Wales will be covered in the eighth volume.
George Elliott, 2010, ‘A monumental palimpsest: the Dacre tomb in Herstmonceux church’, Sussex Archaeol Collns, 148, 129-44
An account of the fine double effigial monument in Herstmonceux church, traditionally assigned to Thomas Fiennes, second Baron Dacre of the South (d. 1533) and his son Sir Thomas Fiennes (d. 1528). The author acted as master mason for a structural examination and restoration of the tomb in 1969: his findings confirm much of a hypothesis proposed in 1916 that the effigies had originally belonged to the tomb of Thomas Hoo, Lord Hoo and Hastings (d. 1455) and his half-brother Thomas Hoo (d. 1486) in Battle Abbey church. The circumstances in which they may have been appropriated are discussed.
Mark Evans (ed), 2010, The Lumley Inventory and Pedigree: art collecting and lineage in the Elizabethan Age: facsimile and commentary on the manuscript in the possession of the Earls of Scarborough (Roxburghe Club. 168pp; colour facsimile + 84 illus, mainly col; ISBN 978-0-903912-11-2; hbk). Privately printed for members of the club, a limited number of copies available for public sale at £220 + postage: contact Robert Harding, Maggs Bros Ltd, 50 Berkeley Square, London W1J 5BA; email robert@maggs.com.
The Lumley Inventory is a remarkable manuscript, commissioned in c.1590 by John, Baron Lumley (d. 1609), to record his collecting activities and his own genealogy. It is now published in full colour facsimile, with 12 scholarly contextual essays. It includes three coloured designs for the tombs of Lord Lumley himself and his wives Jane Fitzalan (d. 1578) and Elizabeth Darcy (d. 1617) at Cheam, Surrey (fols 34v, 35v, 36v), and these are discussed in the chapter by Nigel Llewellyn & Claire Gapper on ‘The Funeral Monuments’. See also Robin Simon, ‘The Lumley Inventory and the Lumley Chapel’, British Art J, 11.1, 2010, pp. 4-5, which includes small colour illustrations of the designs (and extant monuments) for those with slimmer pockets.
Ian Forrest, 2010, ‘The politics of burial in late medieval Hereford’, English Historical Review, 125, 1110-38
A discussion of the customary monopoly claimed by Hereford Cathedral over burials and burial fees in five city parishes and several other parishes in Hereford’s rural hinterland between the late 13th and the 15th centuries. The author draws on a series of challenges to this monopoly to illuminate relationships between parochial communities and the church hierarchy.
Jeroen Geurst, 2010, Cemeteries of the Great War by Sir Edwin Lutyens (101 Pubs: Rotterdam. 472pp; many illus, mainly col; ISBN 978 90 6450 715 1; hbk; €39.50)
An opulently illustrated study by a practising Dutch architect of the First World War cemeteries and memorials designed by Lutyens, which seeks to place them in their landscape and architectural context. Chapters on the Imperial War Graves Commission, its design principles, and Lutyens’ role within it, are followed by a detailed catalogue of all 140 cemeteries for which he was Principal Architect, with plans, photographs and analytical drawings.
Jackie Hall, 2008, ‘Peterborough Cathedral: early memorials and a late medieval house discovered’, Church Archaeology, 12, 1-29
An archaeological watching brief on repairs to a wall lying between the deanery courtyard and the cathedral cemetery at Peterborough unearthed a collection of fragments from 11 grave covers and upright markers of the 11th- and early 12th-centuries. With the aid of documentary evidence, the author argues that these were associated with the knights of Peterborough Abbey. The evidence is linked to the history of lay burial in Peterborough, the development of the abbey’s lay cemetery, and the related development of the deanery.
Oliver D Harris, 2010, ‘Antiquarian attitudes: crossed legs, crusaders and the evolution of an idea’, Antiquaries J, 90, 401-40
A study of the symbolic interpretations retrospectively assigned to medieval cross-legged effigies from the 16th to the 20th centuries. These included the beliefs that they were of pre-Conquest date; that they commemorated crusaders, or those who had taken crusading vows; and that they commemorated Knights Templar. The ‘crusader’ theory, although largely discredited by scholars, has proved particularly tenacious. The paper argues that the identification of the attitude as a noteworthy feature was, despite its mistaken associations, a landmark in the story of the formulation of techniques for the typological diagnosis of antiquities.
Maria Hayward, 2009, Rich Apparel: clothing and the law in Henry VIII's England, (Ashgate: Farnham. xxv+422pp; 26 b/w illus; ISBN 978-0-7546-4096-7; hbk; £65)
A study based predominantly on documentary evidence, but which also makes some use of visual evidence, including tomb effigies and brasses.
C J Knüsel, C M Batt, G Cook, J Montgomery, G Müldner, A R Ogden, C Palmer, B Stern, J Todd & A S Wilson, 2010, ‘The identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria: an osteobiographical approach’, Medieval Archaeology, 54, 271-311
An attempt to identify the female skeleton found at St Bees Priory, Cumbria, alongside the exceptionally well-preserved ‘St Bees Man’, in 1981. Osteological, isotopic and radiocarbon analyses, the archaeological context, documentary evidence, and extant and documented monuments in the priory church, together provide the basis for her plausible identification as the heiress Maud de Lucy (d. 1398), wife successively of Gilbert de Umfraville, 10th Earl of Angus, and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland; and the man as her brother, Anthony de Lucy (d. 1368).
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 2010, ‘In memory of India’s fallen’, History Today, 60.10 (Oct. 2010), 6-7
Reports the recent addition of names to a cremation ghat outside Brighton, commemorating Hindu soldiers who died in the First World War.
Julian Luxford, 2010, ‘The Sparham corpse panels: unique revelations of death from late fifteenth-century England’, Antiquaries J, 90, 299-340
A comprehensive and contextual account of two late 15th-century rood-screen panels in Sparham church, near Norwich, which display images of corpses apparently unique in surviving medieval art. One is painted with two standing corpses dressed in finery, the other with a corpse arising from a tomb within a church, with a font to one side. The author argues the strong possibility that they functioned as a ‘surrogate sepulchral monument’.
J Luxford & M Michael (eds), 2010, Tributes to Nigel J Morgan: contexts of medieval art: images, objects and ideas (Harvey Miller: Turnhout. 386pp; 148 b/w illus; ISBN 978-1-905375-29-5; hbk; €150)
The essays in this major festschrift include: Lynda Dennison, ‘A unique monument: the brass of Philippe de Mézières’; Julian Luxford, ‘The monumental epitaph of Edmund Crouchback’; Richard Marks, ‘The Dean and the transsexual; or why did John Colet desire burial before the image of St Uncumber’; Nicholas Rogers, ‘The Frenze palimpsest’.
Michael McCarthy, 2009, ‘The monument to Alessandro Galilei in S Croce in Florence, 1737’, Irish Architectural & Decorative Studies, 12, 215-9
An account of a mural monument by Girolamo Ticciati (1671-1744) to the architect Alessandro Galilei (1691-1737), supplementing the author’s earlier article in the same journal in 2004 on a memorial tablet to Galilei in S Giovanni in Laterano, Rome.
E W McFarland, 2010, ‘Commemoration of the South African War in Scotland, 1900-10’, Scottish Historical Review, 89.2, 194-223
Addresses Scotland’s engagement with the imperial project through its commemoration of the second South African War. Although predominantly concerned with large public memorials, the article also considers monuments to individuals and military units within churches.
Jos de Meyere, 2010, Het grafmonument van Reinoud III van Brederode in de Grote Kerk te Vianen (Matrijs: Utrecht. 192pp; many illus; ISBN 978-90-5345-412-1; € 29.95)
A full-length study of the double-decker monument to Reynout van Brederode (1492-1556) and his wife Philippote van der Marck (d. 1537), erected c.1542 in the Grote Kerk, Vianen, the Netherlands.
National Trust, A National Trust Bibliography: sources for further reading, available online at: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-bibliography-sep2010.pdf
Launched in September 2010, and scheduled to be updated every 3-6 months, this is an online bibliography of books and articles relating to National Trust properties. It includes a number of references to tombs.
Kathleen Nolan, 2009, Queens in Stone and Silver: the creation of a visual imagery of queenship in Capetian France (Palgrave: Basingstoke. 278pp; 40 b/w illus; ISBN 978-1-403969-90-3; hbk; £52.50)
Addresses the ways in which 12th- and 13th-century Capetian queens were able to shape a visual language of queenship through artistic patronage. Focusing on Bertrade of Montfort (d. by 1119), Adelaide of Maurienne (d. 1154), Eleanor of Aquitaine (d. 1204), and Blanche of Castile (d. 1252), the author studies in parallel images of queenship on stone tombs and silver seals, and examines the choices made by queens about their place of burial. Reviewed in Church Monuments, vol. 25.
David Park & Robin Griffith-Jones (eds), 2010, The Temple Church in London: history, architecture, art (Boydell & Brewer: Woodbridge. 304 pp; 109 b/w, 11 col illus; ISBN 978-1-85383-498-4; hbk; £40.00)
An important new collection of essays on this historically and architecturally significant building, founded as the main church of the Knights Templar in England, and home to one of the most famous series of medieval effigies in the country. Chapters include David Park on medieval burials and monuments; Philip Lankester on the 13th-century military effigies; Virginia Jansen on the Templars’ new choir’ (the intended burial-place of Henry III). To be reviewed in Church Monuments.
Gordon D Raeburn, 2009, ‘The changing face of Scottish burial practices, 1560-1645’, Reformation & Renaissance Review, 11.2, 181-201
An investigation of the changes in burial practices in Scotland during the first century following the Reformation. It assesses how effective the Church of Scotland was in eliminating Catholic practices, considers the development of burial aisles as a technical means of circumventing the prohibition on intra-mural burial, and looks at changing styles of tombs and monuments. It asks whether any one group of society was more or less willing to adhere to the newly instituted practices than others.
Peter F Ryder, 2008, ‘The chalice of the imagination: the delights and dangers of digital photography, and an ongoing mystery’, Medieval Yorkshire (J of the Medieval Section of the Yorks Archaeol Soc), 37, 29-31
A cautionary tale. Enhanced contrast on digital photography of a grave slab of 1493 at West Tanfield (Yorks WR) appeared to show, in addition to the visible cross, the partial outlines of two overlapping chalices. Re-examination established that they did not exist, but found traces of a worn incised chalice in the more usual position higher up.
Nigel Saul, 2010, ‘“What will survive of us is love”’, Country Life, 204.51 (29 Dec 2010), 72-3
A short account of medieval English tomb monuments depicting married couples with clasped hands. Argues that the obvious reading of the pose, that of a celebration of conjugal love, is also the most plausible.
Nigel Saul, 2011, ‘A monarch’s likeness’, Country Life, 205.2 (12 Jan 2011), 64-5
An illustrated discussion of the three principal contemporary portraits of Richard II: the Wilton Diptych, the painting in Westminster Abbey, and his tomb effigy.
Regnerus Steensma, 2009, ‘Groninger priesterzerken’, Groninger Kerken, 26.2, 40-44
Discusses the tombstones of priests, characteristically bearing the representation of a chalice, in the city and province of Groningen. Fifteen such tombstones survive from the 16th century, as well as two brasses dated 1476 and 1497.
Peter Strafford, 2010, Romanesque Churches of Spain: a traveller’s guide (Giles de la Mare: London. 400pp; 262 b/w illus + 10 maps; ISBN 9781900357319; £16.99)
A scholarly and attractively-produced guidebook to the architecture and sculpture of 120 Romanesque and pre-Romanesque churches in Spain.
Jan van Oudheusden & Harry Tummers (eds), De grafzerken van de Sint-Jan te ’s-Hertogenbosch (Drukkerij Gianotten BV: Tilburg. 4 vols; c.1800pp; many b/w & col illus; ISBN 978-9-08-680136-7; €149). Online version at www.degrafzerkenvandesintjan.nl
An exhaustive catalogue of the 520 surviving ledger slabs (14th to 18th centuries) in the cathedral at ’s-Hertogenbosch, with an introductory volume of thematic essays.
Robert Whiting, 2010, The Reformation of the English Parish Church (Cambridge UP: Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-521-76286-1; xx+298pp; 60 b/w, 12 col illus; hbk; £55)
Explores the ways in which parish churches were transformed between 1530 and 1630. The final chapter deals with memorials.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Oliver Harris, with contributions from Sally Badham, Philip Lankester, Sophie Oosterwijk, Andrew Sargent and Kelcey Wilson-Lee. Suggestions for future issues may be sent to OliverDHarris@netscape.net.
Oliver Harris, with contributions from Sally Badham, Philip Lankester, Sophie Oosterwijk, Andrew Sargent and Kelcey Wilson-Lee. Suggestions for future issues may be sent to OliverDHarris@netscape.net.
Sally Badham, 2011, Medieval Church and Churchyard Monuments (Shire: Botley. 64pp; ISBN 9780747808107; 86 colour illus; pbk; £6.99)
A succinct but comprehensive illustrated introduction to the study of medieval monuments, both inside and outside churches. Includes sections on the purpose and meaning of monuments, choices in tomb design, tomb destruction and mutilation, and a gazetteer of places to visit. To be reviewed in Church Monuments.
Terreena Bellinger & Gill Draper, 2010, ‘“My boddye shall lye with my name engraven on it”: remembering the Godfrey family of Lydd, Kent’, in Martyn Waller, Elizabeth Edwards & Luke Barber (eds), Romney Marsh: persistence and change in a coastal lowland, pp 117-40 (Romney Marsh Research Trust: Sevenoaks. 188pp; b/w illus; ISBN 978-0-9566575-0-3; pbk; £15+£4p&p)
Jerome Bertram & Robert Hutchinson, 2009, ‘The Coverts of Slaugham or three brasses disentangled’, Trans Monumental Brass Soc, 18.1, 53-62
An unravelling of the complex histories of three 15th- and 16th-century brasses to members of the Covert family at Slaugham (Sussex), the elements of which have become so mixed as to deceive several eminent scholars.
Rhianydd Biebrach, 2009, ‘Conspicuous by their absence: rethinking explanations for the lack of brasses in medieval Wales’, Trans Monumental Brass Soc, 18.1, 36-42
An enquiry into the relative rarity of brasses in medieval Wales, which places the question within the context of the rarity of effigial monuments in the Principality more generally, and an apparent preference for commemoration in alabaster.
Trev Lynn Broughton, 2010, ‘The Bengal Obituary: reading and writing Calcutta graves in the mid nineteenth century’, J Victorian Culture, 15.1, 39-59
John Chalmers (ed), 2010, Andrew Duncan senior: physician of the Enlightenment (National Museums Scotland: Edinburgh. xiii+253pp; c.50 b/w and colour illus; ISBN 9781905267309; pbk; £14.99)
A collection of essays, largely written by the editor, on the multi-faceted life of Andrew Duncan (1744-1828), medical reformer and champion of public health. The final chapter deals with Duncan’s collection of Edinburgh epitaphs, Elogiorum Sepulchralium Edinenisium Delectus (1815), his interventions to restore the graves of the physician Archibald Pitcairne (d. 1713) and the poet Robert Fergusson (d. 1774), and his own vault in Buccleuch Churchyard, in which he allowed to be buried several of his students (including Charles Darwin, uncle of his famous namesake).
John E Clark, 2010, ‘Hexham Abbey: the various movements of the fittings since the Dissolution’, Archaeologia Aeliana, 39, 375-400
An attempt to track the several (sometimes destructive) rearrangements of medieval fittings within the former Augustinian abbey church at Hexham. Despite the title, in practice it has only been possible to identify movements since the 18th century. Features investigated include the tomb chest, effigy and wooden ‘cage’ chantry chapel of Prior Rowland Leschman (d. 1491); the brass (of which only the matrix and inscription survive) and wooden chantry chapel of Sir Robert Ogle (d. 1410); and a rare set of four painted panels depicting the Dance of Death.
Bruce S Elliot, 2011, ‘Proclaiming respectability across the colour line: headstones of free blacks in St Peter’s churchyard, St George’s, Bermuda’, Post-Medieval Archaeol, 45.1, 197-211
An investigation into 18th and early 19th-century headstones in the former black burial ground at St Peter’s churchyard, which finds that Bermudians, black and white, began erecting permanent headstones as early as many Britons. The stones can be used to demonstrate claims by free blacks from the 1790s onwards to virtues of respectability and gentility. A longer study is to appear in the Bermuda Journal of Archaeology & Maritime History.
Robert A Faleer, 2009, Church Woodwork in the British Isles, 1000-1535: an annotated bibliography (Scarecrow Press: Lanham, MD & Plymouth. xxii+449pp; ISBN 978-0-8108-6739-0; hbk; £59.95)
Includes 15 entries, with abstracts, classified under ‘wooden tomb effigies and statuary’.
Brent Fortenberry, 2011, ‘A lost Bermuda Governor: George Bruere’s burial in context’, Post-Medieval Archaeol, 45.1, 183-96
A report of the discovery beneath the floorboards of St Peter’s Church, St George’s, Bermuda, of the unmarked grave, identified from the coffin-plate, of George James Bruere, Governor of the colony from 1764 to 1780. Intra-mural burial was not normal practice in Bermuda (where most churches had wooden floors): the author discusses the social and historical circumstances which may have led to its adoption in this case.
Peter Hammond, 2011, ‘Chaucer and the de la Pole heraldry’, Ricardian Bulletin (June 2011), 48-50
Examines the heraldry on the monuments of Thomas Chaucer and Alice de la Pole, duchess of Suffolk, at Ewelme (Oxon.) and what it tells us about their attitudes to their families and ancestry.
Michael Hare, 2010, ‘A possible commemorative stone for Æthelmund, father of Æthelric’, in Martin Henig & Nigel Ramsay (eds), Intersections: the archaeology and history of Christianity in England, 400-1200: papers in honour of Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle, BAR British ser. 505, pp 135-48 (Archaeopress: Oxford. xxviii+266pp; illus; ISBN 978-1-40730-540-0; pbk; £49)
Discusses an Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft in the church of St Mary Magdalene, Elmstone Hardwicke (Glos.), and proposes a date in the early 9th century. The monument may have commemorated the Æthelmund who was a patron of nearby Deerhurst, and who was probably the ealdorman killed in battle in 802.
Barbara J Harris, 2010, ‘Defining themselves: English aristocratic women, 1450-1550’, J British Studies, 49.4, 734-52
Investigates female aristocratic identity through tombs and other types of funerary monuments, including glass.
Marcus Herbert, 2011, ‘The Minster Yorkist: an armoured effigy in the abbey church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Sexburgha, Minster, Isle of Sheppey, Kent’, The Ricardian, 21, 1-22
A thoroughly researched examination of the alabaster effigy bearing a Yorkist livery collar at Minster-in-Sheppey, concluding that it commemorates William Cheyne (d. 1487) but was made in his lifetime c.1473-83.
Jonathan Kewley, 2011, ‘Henry Quayle: a Georgian “Stonecutter” and his work’, Georgian Group J, 19, 94-105
Chiefly features Quayle’s work on gravestones.
Jeannie Łabno, 2011, Commemorating the Polish Renaissance Child: funeral monuments and their European context (Ashgate: Farnham. 472pp; 8 colour, 20 b/w illus; ISBN: 978-0-7546-6825-1; hbk; £70.00).
A study of the distinctive Polish tradition of monuments commemorating individual children (girls as well as boys), which contrasts with the more usual early modern European practice of commemoration on the parents’ memorials. To be reviewed in Church Monuments.
Margret Lemberg, 2010, God erbarme dich uber mich / bruder des begere ouch ich: Die Grablegen des hessischen Fürstenhauses (Historischen Kommission für Hessen: Marburg. 271pp; 111 colour, 15 b/w illus; ISBN: 978-3-942225-03-8; hbk; €24)
An historical investigation of some 50 tomb monuments, mausolea and crypts, dating from the 13th to the 20th centuries, of the Princes of Hesse and their collateral lines. To be reviewed in Church Monuments.
Julian M Luxford, 2011, ‘The space of the tomb in Carthusian consciousness’, in Frances Andrews (ed), Ritual and Space in the Middle Ages: proceedings of the 2009 Harlaxton Symposium, Harlaxton Medieval Studies 21, pp. 259-281 & pls 65-76 (Shaun Tyas: Donington. 384pp; ISBN 978-1907730092; hbk; £49.50)
Opens with a discussion of the mostly lost tomb of Sir Walter Manny (d. 1372) in his foundation of the London Charterhouse. He requested an alabaster effigy like that on the tomb of Sir John Beauchamp (d. 1360) in St Paul’s Cathedral (also lost, but engraved for William Dugdale); and two excavated polychromed fragments of the tomb-chest inform a reconstruction by Stuart Harrison. The intrusive location in the monks’ choir prompts consideration of the Carthusians’ perception of secular tombs (originally proscribed by the order) in their houses. The author concludes that they were accepted in part as objects worthy of contemplation by the eremetic monks, whose entry into their individual cells was seen as a sort of entombment.
Douglas Merritt & Francis Greenacre, 2011, Public Sculpture of Bristol, Public Sculpture of Britain 12 (Liverpool Univ Pr: Liverpool. lxv+306pp; 350 b/w illus; ISBN 978-184631-481-0; hbk; £60; ISBN 978-184631-638-8; pbk; £30)
Includes (unusually, since the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association generally regards tomb monuments as lying outside its remit) an illustrated 29 page essay by Katharine Eustace, ‘Bread and sermons’, on Bristol’s post-medieval church monuments. The catalogue which makes up the bulk of the book includes an entry for the elaborate Hindu chattri in Arno’s Vale Cemetery commemorating Raja Rammohun Roy (1772-1833).
Tanja Müller-Jonak, 2010, Englische Grabdenkmäler des Mittelalters, 1250–1500 (Michael Imhof: Petersberg. 280pp; 500 illus; ISBN 978-3-86568-602-2; hbk; €49.95)
A new art-historical and architectural analysis of the development of late medieval English tomb monuments, which seeks to draw conclusions about the self-image of the elite classes, and their ideas of death and the afterlife.
Christine Oestreicher (ed), 2010, Art and Memory in the Churchyard (Memorial Arts Charity: Snape. 64pp; colour illus; pbk; £3). Available from the charity at Snape Priory, Snape, Saxmundham, Suffolk IP17 1SA. Tel: 01728 688393.
The Memorial Arts Charity exists to promote good design in contemporary memorial art and lettercarving. This book comprises a catalogue of 21 works (with artists’ statements), and articles on design, epitaphs and carving, including a section addressing the thorny issue of compliance with churchyard regulations.
Sophie Oosterwijk & Stefanie Knöll (eds), 2011, Mixed Metaphors: the Danse Macabre in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge Scholars Pub: Newcastle-upon-Tyne. xxiii+449pp; 116 b/w + 16 colour illus; ISBN 978-1-4438-2900-7; hbk; £59.99)
A collection of essays addressing the many aspects of the Danse Macabre, a motif originating as a mural in 1420s’ Paris, but which over the 15th century spread across Europe, confronting observers of all ranks and ages with the inevitability of death in a complex mixture of metaphors including dance, dialogue and violence. Several of the essays draw on the evidence of tomb monuments, in particular Sophie Oosterwijk’s ‘Dance, dialogue and duality: fatal encounters in the medieval Danse Macabre’, and Jean Wilson’s ‘The kiss of Death: Death as a lover in early modern English literature and art’. To be reviewed in Church Monuments.
Travis G Parno, 2011, ‘Modelling St Peter’s Church’, Post-Medieval Archaeol, 45.1, 218-20
A report of the detailed survey and 3-D computer-modelling of St Peter’s church and churchyard, St George’s, Bermuda, including the many churchyard memorials.
Caterina Y Pierre, 2010, ‘The pleasure and piety of touch in Aimé-Jules Dalou’s Tomb of Victor Noir’, Sculpture J, 19.2, 173-85
An account of the commissioning and erection of a tomb monument in Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris, in 1888-91 to the journalist Yvan Salmon (‘Victor Noir’), murdered in 1870 by Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte; and more particularly of the folk-rituals of touch undertaken by those seeking help for romantic and reproductive ills that have developed at the life-size bronze gisant.
Neil Price, 2010, ‘Passing into poetry: Viking-Age mortuary drama and the origins of Norse mythology’, Medieval Archaeol, 54, 123-56
A study of the varied funerary practices and ‘mortuary theatre’ of pre-Christian Scandinavia, which draws on both archaeological and literary case-studies to pose the question of whether the material narratives of funerary rites could form one of the creative strands behind what we know today as Norse mythology.
Ellie Pridgeon, 2009, ‘The function of St Christopher imagery in medieval churches, c.1250 to c.1525: wall painting and brass’, Trans Monumental Brass Soc, 18.1, 2-24
An examination of the textual traditions and iconography of St Christopher, and his role as protector against misadventure both before and after death.
Jacques Pycke, 2010, ‘La mémoire des morts à la cathédrale de Tournai du XIe au XXIe siècle’, Revue d’Histoire de l’Église de France, 96 (no 237), 289-317
A wide-ranging study of burial and commemoration in Tournai Cathedral through the past millennium. Although drawing heavily on mortuary rolls and necrologies, and principally concerned with obituary and intercessory practices, it also touches on monuments.
Warwick Rodwell with Caroline Atkins, 2011, St Peter’s, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire: a parish church and its community (Oxbow Books: Oxford. 1 vol. in 2 pts; 944pp; copious b/w & colour illus; ISBN 978-1-84217-325-1; hbk; £75)
This intensive study provides a landmark in church archaeology, presenting the results of an excavation of this important medieval church with a Saxon tower following its redundancy in 1978 and a consequent investigation into the church and the community it served for a millennium. It contains much information on the burial archaeology of the site, including monuments surviving in the church and fragments of discarded monuments discovered during the excavation (with specialist input from a number of CMS members). Vol. 2 on the human remains, by Tony Waldron, appeared in 2007.
Nigel Saul, 2009, ‘The brass of Sir William d’Audley at Horseheath, Cambridgeshire’, Trans Monumental Brass Soc, 18.1, 43-52
A study of the brass to Sir William d’Audley (d. 1365) and its chivalric imagery, in particular the feature of two angels lowering a helm onto Audley’s head.
Nigel Saul & Tim Tatton-Brown (eds), 2010, St George’s Chapel, Windsor: history and heritage (Dovecote Press: Wimborne Minster. 264pp; ISBN 978-1-904-34983-9; pbk; £14.95)
A festschrift of 25 essays for Eileen Scarff, archivist at the College of St George, dealing with its history from the middle ages to the present day. The contents include chapters on royal burials, and on the building of the memorial chapel for George VI.
Matthew Spriggs & Richard Gendall, 2011, ‘The three epitaphs of Dolly Pentreath’, Cornish Studies, 18, 203-24
An investigation into the epitaphs commemorating Dolly Pentreath (c.1692-1777), the last known fluent native speaker of Cornish, buried in Paul Churchyard, Mousehole. One epitaph, in Cornish (which erroneously gave her age as 102), is recorded in two variant versions; another (in English and Cornish) is that on her much-photographed surviving monument, erected by Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte and Rev John Garret in 1860. The authors find fault in the Cornish of all three texts.
Mark Stocker, 2011, ‘A monumental agreement: Lord Curzon, Bertram Mackennal and the Curzon Monument at Kedleston’, Sculpture J, 20.1, 71-77
A discussion of the 1908 legal agreement (and the accompanying negotiations) between the 1st Marquess Curzon (1859-1925) and the sculptor Bertram Mackennal (1863-1931) for an effigial monument in All Saints’ Church, Kedleston (Derbys.) to the Marquess and his wife Mary (1870-1906).
Charles Alfred Stothard, 2011, Monumental Effigies of Great Britain (Ken Trotman: Huntingdon. c.195pp; 144 colour & b/w plates; hbk; £130; comb-bound; £95): for further details, contact enquiries@kentrotman.com.
A full-colour reproduction, in a limited edition of 200 copies, of the classic and still authoritative work first published in 1811-1832. The plates have been scanned and printed to a high standard, but reduced to A4 size: in most cases, however, this has effectively meant reducing the margins rather than the plate size. The volume includes the original text by A J Kempe, but not John Hewitt’s additional text for the 1876 edition.
Neil Stratford, Brigitte Maurice-Chabard & David Walsh, 2011, Corpus de la Sculpture de Cluny: les parties orientales de la grande église Cluny III (A & J Picard: Paris. 1 vol in 2 pts; 823pp; copious b/w & some colour illus; ISBN 978-2-7084-0844-9; pbk; €125) A magisterial and definitive study of the Romanesque sculpture at Cluny, including a section on tomb slabs.
Catherine Switzer, 2010, ‘The Iraq casualty, the listed monument and the missing child: the multiple roles of war memorials in the contemporary United Kingdom’, J War & Culture Studies, 3.1, 83-98
On the changing contemporary meanings and functions of World War I memorials.
Ronald van Belle, 2009, ‘Villers-Vermont, France’, Trans Monumental Brass Soc, 18.1, 63-69
A report on two monuments in the church of Villers-Vermont, Picardy: the incised slab of Pierre de Mercastel (d. 1269) and his wife Beatrice des Quesnes (d. 1295), and the unusual circular ‘foundation’ brass of Philippes Lameuguer, dated 1634.
Philip Ward-Jackson, 2011, ‘Accommodating ritual display: episcopal monuments, 1896-1915’, Studies in Victorian Architecture & Design 3, 100-19
A reappraisal of late 19th and early 20th-century commemorative sculptures of British bishops and archbishops, traditionally held in low critical regard.
Jean Wilson, 2011, ‘Monuments of piety, integrity and learning’, The Times, 27th Aug 2011, p 100
Considers funerary monuments commemorating the translators of the Authorised Version of the Bible, observing that few of the monuments make direct reference to this important work. One exception is the tomb of Richard Brett at Quainton (Bucks.), the subject of a large illustration.
Lydia Wilson (ed), 2009, Knockbreda: its monuments and people (The Follies Trust: Belfast. 56pp; many colour & b/w illus; £5 inc. p&p): available from Mr T W Atkinson, 100 Mullahead Road, Tandragee, Co. Armagh BT62 2LB; or free as a pdf download at www.follies-trust.org/uploads/files/knockbredabook.pdf.
A collection of short essays on the graveyard at Knockbreda, near Belfast, a fashionable place for burials in the 18th century: published by the Follies Trust, which has taken on the conservation of some of its extraordinary mausolea. Contributors include Finbar McCormick on the evolution of Irish burials and monuments; William Roulston on the people buried in the graveyard; and, on the mausolea, James Stevens Curl on the architecture, Nini Rogers on the occupants, and Chris McCollum on the conservation.
Kelcey Wilson-Lee, 2009, ‘A fifteeenth-century brass at Swithland, Leicestershire, and the commemoration of female religious in late medieval England’, Trans Monumental Brass Soc, 18.1, 25-35
A study of an unusual mid-15th-century brass commemorating Agnes Scot, an anchoress, examined within the context of other memorials to female religious.