The Church Monuments Society

These entries compiled by Philip Lankester and Sally Badham and others.

Baker, A, ‘Upton Church and the Bulstrode Brasses’, Records of Buckinghamshire, vol. 42, 2002, pp. 103-107.

Breiding, Dirk H., ‘Konrad VIII. Shenk von Erbach († 1464) - eine Grabplatte mit ungewöhnlicher Rüstungsdarstellung. Mit einem Appendix zu bestimmten Konstructions- und Zierformen an Harnischteilen des 15. Jahrhunderts’, Waffen- und Kostumkunde, vol. 44, 2002, no. 2, pp. 155-176.
An effigy with unusually depicted armour is explained as reflecting patron’s choice and sculptor’s error. A version of this paper was given at the 2002 Leeds International Medieval Congress. The same issue includes Tobias Capwell, ‘A Depiction of an Italian Arming Doublet’ (pp. 177-196) and Helmut Nickel, ‘About Aillettes and Achsenschilde’ (pp. 197-212).

Echinger-Maurach, Claudia, ‘Michelangelo’s monument for Julius II in 1534’, Burlington Magazine, CXLV, no. 1202, May 2003, pp. 336-344.
Discusses the original intended design for the tomb in S. Pietro Vincoli, Rome.

Goodall, John A.A., ‘The Architecture of Ancestry at the Collegiate Church of St Andrew’s Wingfield, Suffolk’, in Richard Eales and Shaun Tyas (eds), Family and Dynasty in Late Medieval England, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, IX, Shaun Tyas, Donington, 2003, pp. 156-171. ISBN 1 900289 54 7 (Hbk). £35.
Study of the layout and development of the East end of the church which provides the setting for the family monuments, including three effigial tombs, one of which was moved when the east end was extended in the early 1460s. Also discusses monuments at the de la Pole families other foundations at Hull (Yorks) and Ewelme (Oxon.).

King, Pamela M, ‘The Treasurer’s Cadaver in York Minster Reconsidered’, in Caroline Barron and Jenny Stratford (eds), The Church and Learning in Late Medieval Society: essays in honour of R.B. Dobson, Halaxton Medieval Studies, XI, Shaun Tyas, Donington, 2002, pp. 196-209. ISBN 1 900289 52 0 (Hbk.). £49.50.
The traditional identification of the tomb (with cadaver effigy) in the north nave aisle as commemorating Thomas Haxey, Treasurer of York Minster (d. 1424) is refuted by the evidence of the seventeenth-century notes by James Torre, who records a now lost brass for Haxey. Possible alternative candidates for the cadaver tombs are discussed.

Koster, Margaret L., ‘The Arnolfini double portrait’, Apollo, vol. 158, no. 499 (new. ser.), September 2003, pp. 3-14.
Suggests that this much-discussed portrait, of Giovanni Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife Costanza Trenta (by Jan van Eyck, 1434), was painted as a memorial to Constanza following her death, referring inter alia to the hand-holding couples shown on effigies and brasses. It is well-known that the chandelier above the couple has only one lighted candle (on Giovanni’s side) but the author draws attention to more rarely noted remains of a burnt-out candle on the other side, above Constanza. The same issue contains an article by Charles Tracy on ‘The reredos at St Andrew, Sandford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire’ (pp. 15-22) on a limestone panel of the Assumption of the Virgin, illustrating, by way of comparison, early 16th-century alabaster effigies at Tong (Shropshire) and Elford (Staffs).

Marks, Richard, and Paul Williamson (eds) assisted by Eleanor Townsend, Gothic: Art for England1400-1547, V & A Publications, London, 2003. 496 pp incl. many b & w and col. illus., and index. ISBN 1 85177 401 7 (Hbk). Hbk £45; Pbk £29.95
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 9 October 2003 - 18 January 2004, 11 comprising introductory essays and entries for a rich selection of 359 objects and buildings (all illustrated) by over 60 scholars. The entries include: no. 87 - the effigy of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, from St Mary’s Warwick (1447-50): no. 330 - the tomb of Ralph Greene and Katherine Malory, at Lowick, Northants (1419-20); no. 331 - the cadaver effigy of John Baret from St Mary’s Bury St Edmunds (1450s); no. 335 - three wooden effigies, probably of Sir John Savile and his two wives, from Thornhill, Yorks (tomb dated 1529); no. 336 - a tomb relief from Thetford Priory (c. 1536-9); and no. 337 - the tomb of Thomas Manners 1st Earl of Rutland and Eleanor Paston (1543-4). Nos 330 and 337 were not exhibited. Also several monumental brasses, all but two of which were exhibited from rubbings.

Oosterwijk, Sophie, ‘“A Swithe Feire Graue”: the Appearance of Children on Medieval Tomb Monuments’, in Harlaxton Medieval Studies, IX (for details see under Goodall, above), pp. 172-192.
Useful and perceptive analytical survey, by our Secretary, of the genre on which she an acknowledged expert.

Rivière, Jean-Claude, ‘Les Stèles Funéraires Discoïdales’, Histoire Médiévale, no. 42, June 2003, pp. 66-72.
Disc-headed grave markers of the type of which a Kentish study appeared in Church Monuments, I, pt 2 (1986).

Sandler, Lucy Freeman, ‘The Chantry of Roger of Waltham in Old St Paul’s’, in Janet Backhouse (ed.), The medieval English Cathedral: papers in honour of Pamela Tudor-Craig, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, X, Shaun Tyas, Donington, 2003, pp. 168-190. ISBN 1 900289 55 5 (Hbk). £40.00.
Documentary evidence for the chantry of Canon Roger de Waltham (d. 1341), first established in 1325, includes evidence for its physical form and imagery.

Sally Badham, 2004, The Monumental Brasses of the Collegiate Church of Holy Trinity, Tattershall (Tattershall PCC. 24 pp. incl. 15 illus. Pbk £2.50). Available from the church and the Monumental Brass Society bookstall (www.mbs-brasses.co.uk/Bookstall.htm).

Jonathan Black, 2002, The sculpture of Eric Kennington (The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, Aldershot. 112 pp. incl. 97 b & w illus. & index. ISBN: 0853318239. £65)
Reviewed by Patrick Elliott, Burlington Magazine, 145, no. 1029, December 2003, pp. 866-7. For Kennington’s effigy of T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) see Richard Knowles’s article in Church Monuments, 6 (1991).

Jonathan Black, 2003, ‘ “The real thing”: Eric Kennington’s 24th Infantry Division memorial in Battersea Park, London (1921-24)’, Burlington Magazine, 145, no. 1029, December, 854-859

Francis Cheetham, 2003, Alabaster images of medieval England (Boydell Press in association with The Association for Cultural Exchange, Woodbridge. xvii + 218 pp., 264 b & w and 21 col. illus. ISBN 1 84383 028 0. Hbk £90). A listing of all English medieval alabaster religious carvings known to the author (including a few on tombs), arranged by subject, with an introduction and photographs of less well-known examples. A very useful companion to the author’s English medieval alabasters (1984).

Nicola Coldstream, 2003, ‘Exhibition reviews: Gothic [: Art for England 1400-1547], London’, Burlington Magazine, 145, no. 1029, December, 869-71
Thoughtful review of the exhibition and catalogue (for the latter see Recent Publications, Newsletter, 19/2, p. 21)

Rachel Ann Dressler, 2004, Of armor and men in medieval England: the chivalric rhetoric of three English knights’ effigies (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington (Vt). xii + 145 pp. incl. index, plus 9 col. and 70 b & w illus. ISBN 0 7546 3368 3. Hbk £45).
A review of this book will appear in Church Monuments.

Mark Duffy, 2003, Royal tombs of medieval England (Tempus, Stroud and Charleston (USA); 320 pp. incl. index and 112 b & w illus., plus 18 col. pls. ISBN 0 7524 2579 X. Pbk £17.99).
Reviewed by Richard Knowles in Church Monuments, 18, 2003, p. 90.

Donald Garstang, 2003 ‘Sir Robert Taylor and Camillo Ruconi: the source of “Britannia” on the Cornwall monument in Westminster Abbey’, Burlington Magazine, 145, no. 1029, December, 851-853
The model is the stucco statue of ‘Fortitude’, by Ruconi, c. 1685-86, in the Ludovisci Chapel, S. Ignazio, Rome)

Historical Manuscripts Commission, 2003, Papers of British antiquaries and historians, Guides to Sources for British History No. 12 (TSO (The Stationery Office), London. xviii + 246 pp. incl. index. ISBN 0 11 4402795. Pbk £30. Order on line at: book.orders@tso.co.uk.

Stefanie Knöll, 2003, Creating academic communities – funeral monuments to professors at Oxford, Leiden and Tübingen, 1580-1700 (Equilibris Publishing, Schadewijkstraat, Netherlands. 480 pp. ISBN 90-5976-003-4 Hbk; 90-5976-004-2 Pbk
Includes an extensive illustrated catalogue with illustrations on an accompanying CD-ROM. Further details and prices available at: www.equilibris.nl.

David Lepine and Nicholas Orme, 2003, Death and memory in medieval Exeter (Devon and Cornwall Record Society, new series, 46. ISBN 0 901853 46 1. £20)
Phillip Lindley, 2003, ‘ “The singuler mediacions and praiers of al the holie companie of heven”: sculptural functions and forms in Henry VII’s Chapel’, in T. Tatton-Brown and R Mortimer (eds), Westminster Abbey: the Lady Chapel of Henry VII, 259-293 (Boydell, Woodbridge. ISBN 184383037X. Hbk £50.00)

Richard Marks, 2004, Image and devotion in Medieval England (Sutton, Stroud. ISBN 0 7509 1466 1. 344 pp., 15 maps, 176 b & w & 24 col. illus. Hbk £25.00).
A ground-breaking, scholarly, but very readable, study, which examines medieval sculptured and painted devotional images in terms of function, audience, patronage, and production. Includes reference to and illustrations of relief monuments, brasses and incised slabs.
Marian Boudon Machuel, 2003, ‘François Dieussart in Rome: two newly identified works, Burlington Magazine, 145, no. 1029, December, 833-840
One of the works discussed is the tomb of Giorgio Pescatore (Georg Visscher), c. 1633, in S. Maria del’Anima, Rome.

Richard K Morris and Ron Shoesmith, 2003, Tewkesbury Abbey: history, art & architecture (Logaston Press, Almeley. 326 pp incl. many b & w illus. and index, plus 26 col. pls. ISBN 1 904396 02 X Hbk; 1 904396 02 X Pbk.)
Includes chapters on ‘The later medieval monuments and chantry chapels’ by Phillip Lindley, ‘The post-Reformation monuments and the churchyard’ by Jane Birdsall and R K Morris. Monuments (including the earlier ones) are discussed and illustrated in several other chapters.

Harold Mytum, 2004, ‘A long and complex plot: patterns of family burial in Irish graveyards from the 18th century’, Church Archaeology, 5 & 6 (for 2001-2), 31-41, and ‘Graveyard survey in West Ulster’, ibid., 112-4
This issue contains several other articles of interest (including Roffey, below). It can be obtained by joining the Society for Church Archaeology, c/o Council for British Archaeology, Bowes-Morrell House, 111 Walmgate, York YO1 9WA. Subscriptions: £20 (individuals & institutions); £10 (unwaged).

Nicholas Orme, 2004, ‘The dead beneath our feet’, History Today, 54, no. 2, February, 19-25

Simon Roffey, 2004, ‘Reconstructing English medieval parish church chantries and chapels: an archaeological approach’, Church Archaeology, 5 & 6 (for 2001-2), 62-8.

Rosemary Sweet, 2004, Antiquaries. the discovery of the past in eighteenth-century Britain (Hambledon and London, London and New York. xxi + 473 pp. incl. 10 text illus. and index, and 37 b & w pls. ISBN 1 85285 309 3. Hbk £25)
Includes occasional mentions of funerary monuments and discussion at pp. 273-5. Two plates (26 & 27) are reproduced from Gough’s Sepulchral monuments: unfortunately the former, of Henry III’s tomb at Westminster, is mis-captioned as Edward III’s.

Simon Watney, 2004, ‘Review article: accessibility, display and disorientation: the exhibition of medieval art today’, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 156 (for 2003), 171-177
Reviews two exhibitions of sculpture (and their catalogues): ‘Image and Idol’ (Tate Britain, 2001-2002) and ‘Wonder…’ (Henry Moore Centre, Leeds, 2002-2003) (for the catalogues see Recent Publications in Newsletters 18/1, p. 13 and 18/2, p. 13). Among the related issues discussed is whether funerary monuments or parts of them should be removed from churches for temporary exhibitions, with particular reference to medieval effigies.

Derek Keene, Arthur Burns and Andrew Saint, 2004, St Paul’s: the Cathedral Church of London 604-2004 (Yale University Press, New Haven and London. xv + 538 pp. incl. notes, index and bibliography and 389 coll. and b & w illus. in text. ISBN 0-300-09276-8. Hbk)
Includes: Ch. 11, ‘Fabric, tombs and precinct 1087-1540’ by Carol Davidson-Cragoe; Ch. 16 ‘The chantry chapel of Roger of Waltham’ by Lucy Freeman Sandler, and Ch. 14 ‘The post-Reformation monuments’ by Roger Bowdler and Ann Saunders.

Pamela King, 2003, ‘ “My image to be made all naked”: cadaver tombs and the commemoration of women in fifteenth-century England’, The Ricardian 13, (essays in honour of Anne F. Sutton, ed. Livia Visser-Fuchs), 294-314.

James G. Mann, 1939, ‘Armour in Essex’, Trans of the Essex Archaeol. Soc., new ser., 22, 276-298; reprint (Ken Trotman Monographs 19, 2003. Pbk, £7.50 plus p & p (available from Ken Trotman Ltd, unit 11, Ditton Walk, Cambridge CB5 8PY).
Discusses and illustrates several effigies and brasses.

Sophie Oosterwijk, 2004, ‘Of corpses, constables and kings: the Danse Macabre in late medieval and renaissance culture’, J British Archaeol. Ass., 157, 61-90.
The first overall study of this important subject written in English for over 50 years.

Margaret Rylatt and Paul Mason, 2003, The archaeology of the medieval Cathedral and Priory of St Mary, Coventry (Coventry City Council, Coventry. [viii] + 155 pp incl. references and index; 75 b & w illus. and 4 col. pls. ISBN 0-9546187-0-X. Pbk)
Two brass indents (one fragmentary) are discussed on pp. 34-5.

Elizabeth A. Smith, 2004, Hob Moor: historic stray and local nature reserve (William Sessions Ltd, York.. iv + 100 pp. incl. many b & w and col. illus. ISBN 1 85072 319 2. Pbk. £6).
The worn medieval military effigy, erected at the entrance to the Moor in 1717, features in Ch. 9, with reproductions of the illustration from Nichols’s Leicestershire and of George Nicholson’s sketch of 1825 in the York City Art Gallery.

Church Recorders News and Views 2004 (published by the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies) includes the following short articles: John E. Vigar, ‘Where shall we put Aunty? A look at the placement of memorials in English churches’; Sophie Oosterwijk, ‘Children on monuments’; Barbara Tomlinson, ‘Church monuments and the Navy in the age of sail’; Jane Furlong, ‘Air Force memorials in the UK’; Lynn Pearson, ‘Ceramic tile memorials in British churches’; John Physick, ‘Serendipity’ (mainly concerning the discovery of three almost identical monuments in Kent by the previously unknown John Broxup).

P.S. Barnwell, Claire Cross and Ann Rycraft (eds), 2005, Mass and parish in late medieval England: the Use of York (Spire Books, Reading. 224 pp. including many b/w illus. (including two cross-slabs). ISBN 1-904965-02-4. Hbk. £24.95)
Based on papers given at a day conference to coincide with a live reconstruction of a 15th century requiem mass at All Saints, North Street, York (of which several photographs are included). Includes a study by P.S. Barnwell (ch. 4) on the care of souls in the 15th century in All Saints church based on an analysis of over 100 wills; and the text, with translation, of the requiem mass according to the Use of York.

John Blatchley and Peter Northeast, 2005, Decoding flint flushwork on Suffolk and Norfolk churches. A survey of more than 90 churches … where devices and inscriptions challenge interpretation (Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History. viii + 116 pp. including many b/w illustrations. ISBN 0 9521390 4 9. Pbk. £15 plus p & p)
Includes some inscriptions which include the names of donors and benefactors, often beginning ‘Orate pro anima…’. It could be said that hese give the structures on which they appear a memorial function and are therefore of relevance to the study of funerary monuments. Obtainable from 11 Burlington Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 2HS.

Chris Brooks and Martin Cherry, 2002, ‘The prince and the Parker: a speculative essay on the Evans chantry glass at Coldridge, Devon, and Tudor propaganda’, Journal of Stained Glass Studies, 26, 17-29
Includes discussion of the effigy in the chantry chapel built by John Evans, Parker of the Bonville’s deer park at Coldridge from the reign of Henry VII, who died in or after 1525, as well as the other furnishings which include a stained glass image of Edward IV (possibly also with Richard III).

Lawrence Butler, 2003, ‘Why did Norton conquer Sutton? a puzzle from West Tanfield’, Medieval Yorkshire (journal of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society Medieval Section), No. 32, 17-19.
Concerns the puzzling inscription on the late 15th-century brass to Thomas Sutton, Rector of Tanfield.

Paul Cockerham, 2004, ‘Catacleuse, wood and plaster: markers for the Renaissance in Early-Modern Cornwall’, J of the Royal Institute of Cornwall, 43-63
Examines the introduction of Renaissance imagery in Cornwall, comparing ornamentation on woodwork, including benchends, together with religious and secular plasterwork with Prior Thomas Vyvyan’s innovative 1533 tomb of Catacleuse marble in Bodmin priory, the design of which bears comparison with Torrigiano’s tomb of Henry VII.

Aidan Dobson, 2004, The royal tombs of Great Britain. An illustrated history (Duckworth, London. viii + 248 pp. 170 b & w photos, plans, maps & genealogical tables in the text. ISBN 0 7156 3310 4. Hbk. £25)
Comprises: Introduction; chapters on the places of death & burial, the tombs and the post interment history of rulers of ‘The early English kingdoms’, ‘England’, ‘Scotland’ (but not Wales or Ireland) and the ‘United Kingdom’, from the 6th century to George VI, arranged chronologically; with appendices of ‘The known tombs of royal consorts’, ‘The Stuarts in exile’, ‘Foreign monarchs buried in Great Britain’, and ‘The principal chapels, churches and mausolea containing royal tombs’ (with brief text and some plans); also a chronological list of rulers, genealogical tables and index. The text is not referenced but there is a bibliography and a list of studies (not quite complete) of individual royal burials, arranged alphabetically by the name of the monarch.

Julian Litten, 2005, ‘The heraldic funeral’, The Coat of Arms, 3rd ser., 1, part 1 (No. 209), Spring, 47-67 & Pl. 8
Includes supplementary photographs of the quin-centenary re-enactment of the funeral of Arthur, Prince of Wales, in Worcester, in May 2002. This first issue of The Coat of Arms (the journal of the Heraldry Society) in a new, larger format contains several other important articles including Maurice Keen, ‘Heraldry and the medieval gentlewoman’ (pp. 1-8) – which first appeared in History Today, March 2003.

Julian Luxford, 2004, ‘Sculpture as exemplar: the Founders’ Book of Tewkesbury Abbey and its sculptural models’, Sculpture Journal, 12, 4-21
Concerns the relationship between the now fragmentary figures of the Lords of the Manor of Tewkesbury, originally from the Beauchamp chantry in Tewkesbury Abbey, and the figures in the Founders’ Book (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Top. Gloucs d.2).

J.A. Mol and J. Post, 2004, ‘De epposten van Rinsumageest’, Koninlijke Nederlandse Oudheidkundige Bond Bulletin, 103, No. 4, pp. 109-21
This article offers new thoughts on the 'Eppo stone' from Rinsumageest in Friesland. This high-relief sandstone slab features a beardless young man with a spear and an inscription in Latin leonine verse. It commemorates Eppo (d. 1341), probably a scion of the local noble Tjaarda family. Although currently in storage, the monument should in due course be on display again in the new Fries Museum.

Ralph Richardson, 2004, ‘The effigy tombs of the gentry of Worcestershire 1500-1700’, Trans of the Worcs Archaeol. Soc., 19, 149-73
Based on a Birmingham University MA dissertation, 1998. ‘Effigy’ includes incised slabs and brasses and there is a supplementary list of those clergy tombs which are ‘very similar in style to gentry tombs’.

Peter Ryder, 2005, The medieval cross slab grave covers in Cumbria (Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, extra ser., 32. ix. + 214 pp. incl. many line drawings & 4 b & w photos. ISBN 1 873124 40 6. Hbk. £20 for non-members, including postage)
Orders should be sent to Richard Hall, Cumbria Record Office, County Offices, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 4RQ. Cheques to be made payable to CWAAS. This volume continues the author’s series of county surveys of this class of monument: those already published include County Durham, West Yorkshire and south Northumberland.

Xavier F. Salomon, 2004, ‘The contract for Giuliano Finelli’s monument to Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini’, Burlington Magazine, 146, No. 1221. December, 815-19
Concerns the monument to Cardinal Aldobrandini (d.1621), intended for the family chapel of S. Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome, the site of his burial and lavish funeral. The monument (the initial contract for which is dated 1632) was to be paid for by his sister and heir, Olimpia, but it was never completed and the chapel now contains no monument or inscription to the Cardinal .

Jean Wilson, 2004, ‘Why Fotheringhay? The location of the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots’, Renaissance Journal (the journal of the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Renaissance Elites and Court Cultures, University of Warwick), 2, no. 2, June, pp. 3-31
Deals briefly with monuments to the Dukes of York at Fotheringhay and contains a definitive explanation of why the effigy of Lord Denbigh at Warwick wears a coronet. Should in due course be available at: www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/publications/journal (the latest issue available on line at April 2005 is vol. 2, no. 1).

Rita Wood, 2003, ‘The Romanesque tomb-slab at Bridlington Priory’, Yorkshire Archaeol J, 75, 63-76
Concludes that the Tournai marble slab dates from about 1150 and favours the priory’s founder, Walter de Gant (d. 1139), as the most likely candidate for the person commemorated.

Sally Badham, 2005, ‘Evidence for the minor funerary monument industry 1100-1500’, in K. Giles and C. Dyer, Town and Country in the Middle Ages: Contrasts, Contacts and Interconnections, 1100-1500, Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 22 (Leeds. ISBN 1 904350 28 3. Hbk; 330 pp. inc. 80 b/w illustrations. £44 incl. p & p from Maney publishing), pp. 165-95
A useful overview, beginning by pointing out that brass engraving was an urban activity, though dependent on the country for part of their production process and much of their market. It was dominated by the London Purbeck marblers, though regional schools became more successful after c. 1450. By contrast many (though not all) incised slabs were the products of quarry workshops responsible for a wide range of products. Only the Purbeck and Barnack workshops marketed cross slabs over a wide area.

Francis Cheetham, [2004], Unearthed: Nottingham’s medieval alabasters ([City of Nottingham (Museums and Galleries), Nottingham]. ISBN 0905634 69 1. 72 pp. with many illus., most in colour. Pbk. £12.95)
Fully illustrated catalogue of over 20 alabaster statues and panels in the City Museums’ permanent collection, with an introduction which includes a section on ‘The tomb carvers’ (pp. 12-14) and other occasional mentions of tombs.

Reindert Falkenburg, Herman Roodenburg and Frits Scholten, 2001, Sumptuous memories: studies in seventeenth-century Dutch tomb sculpture (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History vol. 5 (Waanders, Zwolle, Netherlands. 272 pp, 1 colour and 150 b/w photos. ISBN 90 400 94756. Hbk. € 69.95)

Vittoria Garibaldi and Bruno Toscano (eds), 2005, Arnolfo di Cambio: una rinascita nell’Umbria medievale (Silvana Editoriale, Milan. 312 pp, 60 col. & 80 b/w illus. ISBN 88-8215-896-9. €36)
Catalogue of an exhibition held partly in Perugia and partly in Orveito, 7 July 2005-8 January 2006. Includes (in Orvieto) parts from the tomb of Cardinal de Braye (d. 1282) in San Domenico, Orvieto.

William Gibson, 2004, ‘The tomb of Bishop Benjamin Hoadley’, Ecclesiology Today, 34, January, 48-52
Monument to Hoadley (d. 1761) by Joseph Wilton, in Winchester Cathedral.

Roberta Gilchrist and Barney Sloane, 2005, Requiem. The medieval monastic cemetery in Britain (Museum of London Archaeology Service, [London]. xvii + 273 pp. incl. 155 illus. (many col.), short summaries in French and German, bibliography & index. ISBN 1-901992-59-4. Pbk. £29.95)
Comprehensive study based on the analysis of some 8000 graves from over ‘70 cemeteries [a gazateer of sites in included] in England, Scotland and Wales, focussing principally on religious houses (c.1050 to c.1600 CE) with comparative evidence drawn from cathedrals, parish churches and Jewish cemeteries. The book [will be] complemented by a fully accessible, web-mounted database archived with the Archaeology Data Service’ (shortly to be available at http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/resources.html?cemeteries_ahrb_2005; user’s guide in the book, Chapter 10). A highly useful synthesis of all manner of archaeological evidence relating to death and burial, presented in a series of clear, thematically based sections. Grave markers and grave slabs are discussed on pp. 184-94 but grander monuments are not discussed because, as explained, so few have been examined in combination with their related burial archaeology.

Jean Guillaume, (introduction), 2005, Demeures d’éternité. Églises et Chapelles funéraires aux XVe et XVIe siècles (Picard, Paris. 288 pp., 180 illus. ISBN 2-7084-0731-7. € 52)
Includes Howard Colvin, ‘The funerary chapel in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries’; and Nigel Llewellyn, ‘Somptuossima … Commemoration at Westminster Abbey, c. 1600’, as well as other papers on subjects in France, the Low Countries, Italy and Spain.

Laurence Keen and Peter Ellis (eds), 2005, Sherborne Abbey and School: excavations 1972-76 and 1990 (Dorset Nat. Hist and Arch Soc. Monograph 16. ISBN 0-900341-85-8)
Includes an Appendix (pp. 7-8) by Brian Kemp on Clement, Abbot of Sherborne, whose name is inscribed on the surviving top part of a Purbeck marble effigy preserved in the Abbey . The date of ‘fl. 1163’, previously given for Clement in relation to the effigy, is misleading: he was certainly still alive in 1175 and probably died after c.1180, quite possibly as late as the later 1180s. This brings his date of death much closer to that of Jocelin de Bohun, Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1184), who is commemorated by a similarly low relief Purbeck marble effigy in Salisbury Cathedral.

Hadrien Kockerols, 1999-2004, Monuments funéraires en pays mosan (published by the author, Malonne, Belgium)
vol. 1 (1999): Arrondissement de Huy: tombes et épitaphes 1100-1800 (376 pp. € 40 plus p & p)
vol. 2 (2001): Arrondissement de Namur: tombes et épitaphes 1000-1800 (448 pp. € 40 plus p & p)
vol. 3 (2003): Arrondissement de Dinant: tombes et épitaphes 1200-1800 (336 pp. € 30 plus. p & p)
vol. 4 (2004): Arrondissement de Liège: tombes et épitaphes 1000-1800 (576 pp. € 40 plus p & p)
Each volume contains an introduction followed by an inventory in chronological sequence with many illustrations, with indexes of places, personal names and bibliography. Between about one quarter and one third of the entries are for tombs before 1600; the majority of these entries are for incised slabs, and sculpted effigies included are usually in very low relief. Further details can be obtained from hadrienkockerols@sky.net.be

Mary Markus, 2004, ‘St Bride’s Douglas - a family mausoleum’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 134, 403-21
This study of the medieval effigies and their tombs in this church, cared for by Historic Scotland, took advantage of greater access to three of the five effigies, occasioned by their removal from the church during conservation work which began in January 2003 and is described in an appendix.

D.M. Palliser, 2004, ‘Royal Mausolea in the long Fourteenth Century (1271-1422)’, in W.M. Ormrod (ed.), Fourteenth Century England, 3 (Boydell, Woodbridge), 1-16
A synthesis and reassessment of intended and actual places of English royal burial and the chronology of the process by which Westminster Abbey became the pre-eminent royal mausoleum.

Nicholas Rogers, 2004, ‘ “Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum”: images and texts relating to the resurrection of the dead and the Last Judgement on English brasses and incised slabs’, in Nigel Morgan (ed.), Prophecy, Apocalypse and the Day of Doom (Harlaxton Medieval Studies XII. Paul Watkins Publishing, Donington. ISBN 1900289 68 7), 342-355

Veronica Sekules, 2000, ‘Dynasty and patrimony in the self-construction of an English queen: Philippa of Hainault and her images’, in John Mitchell and Matthew Moran (eds), England and the Continent in the Middle Ages: studies in memory of Andrew Martindale (Harlaxton Medieval Studies VIII, Shaun Tyas, Stamford. ISBN 1 900289 43 1), 157-174 plus 11 b/w plates
Includes discussion of Philippa’s effigial tomb in Westminster Abbey.

Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs with Ralph A. Griffiths, 2005, The royal funerals of the House of York at Windsor (Richard III Society. 138 pp. incl. 21 b/w illus. ISBN 0 904893 15 4. Pbk. £10 plus p & p)
‘This includes enlarged and corrected versions of texts that originally appeared in The Ricardian, 9 (1997-99)’. Includes discussion of the original form and arrangement of Edward IV’s chantry chapel and monument.

Paul de Win, 2005, ‘ “Danse Macabre” around the tomb and bones of Margaret of York, The Ricardian, 15, 53-69
Not about the Danse Macabre per se; but concerns the lost tomb of Margaret, third and last wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, formerly in the Franciscan church at Malines; and whether her bones were ever found during several attempts to locate them. The precise form of the tomb is uncertain but it included a cadaver image of Margaret and another image, showing her kneeling and being presented to St Margaret.

Tim Ayers and Tim Tatton-Brown (eds), 2006, Medieval art, architecture and archaeology at Rochester (Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. Conference Transactions XXVII, Maney Publishing, Leeds. ISBN 1 904350 76 3 (978 1 904350 76 7) Hbk. £65; 1 904350 77 1 (978 904350 77 4) Pbk. £24.50)
Includes: John Crook, ‘The medieval shrines of Rochester Cathedral’, 114-129; Nigel Saul, ‘The medieval monuments of Rochester Cathedral', 164-180.
Sally Badham 2004, 'Cast copper-alloy tombs and London series B brass production in the late fourteenth century', Monumental Brass Society Transactions 17 , 105-27
This study analyses the lettering on the tombs in Westminster Abbey to Edward III, Richard II and Cardinal Langham, and the monument to the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral, showing them to be in the style of the London B brass engraving workshop. The evidence concerning the various craftsmen concerned suggests that Henry Yevele and Stephen Lote were involved in the production both of these tombs and of monumental brasses.

Sally Badham and Thomas Woodcock, 2006, ‘John Archibald Goodall, FSA (1930-2005)’, Coat of Arms, 2.1 (no. 211), Spring, 1-10

Tobias E Capwell, 2005, ‘Observations on the armour depicted on three mid-15th-century effigies in the Kirk of St Nicholas, Aberdeen’, Journal of the Armour Research Society, 1.1: 5-22
A very useful article. Through the kindness of our member Mrs Ann Norman, the author had access to the archive of our former President A.V.B. Norman whose book on Scottish ‘Lowland’ effigies was almost complete at the time of his death.

Francis Cheetham, 2005, English medieval alabasters, revised edn (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2005. 368pp, 8 col. and 338 b/w illus.; ISBN 1843830094, Hbk. £90)
Essentially a reprint of the original edition of 1984 (Phaidon, Oxford) with an added, single-page introduction which gives the major publications etc. that have appeared since.

Paul Cockerham, 2004, 'The incised slab to an architect at Caudebec-en-Caux, Sein-Marne'. Monumental Brass Society Transactions 17, pp. 136-45.
The mural incised slab to Guillaume Le Tellier (d. 1484) has unusual iconography, including a skeleton man with a pair of compasses and set square, as well as a plan of the church and some builders' tools, but is shown to be a nineteenth century restoration.

Dagmar Eichberger (ed.), 2005, Women of Distinction: Margaret of York; Margaret of Austria (Brepols, Leuven)
Catalogue with introductory essays of an exhibition of the same title, held in Mechelen, Belgium, 17 Sept.-18 Dec. 2005, centred on Margaret of York (1446-1503), brother of Edward IV and wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (see de Win 2005, listed in last Newsletter); and Margaret of Austria (1480-1530), daughter of the Emperor Maximilian I and latterly wife of Philibert II of Savoy. Includes a chapter by Jens Ludwig Burk, ‘Conrad Meit, Court Sculptor to Margaret of Austria’ (pp. 277-285) which discusses the tomb of Margaret and Philibert in the Royal Monastery of Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse, made between 1526 and 1531, for which the contract survives. The tomb has double images of the couple: an effigy of each au vif, in marble, above; with an idealsied representation of each de la mort (dead but not decaying - though Sophie Osterwijk, Church Monuments, 20, 45, points out that the contract specifies ‘morte de huit jours’), in alabaster, below. In the latter Margaret is depicted as a beautiful young woman in contrast to the older face on the effigy above. The effigies are discussed in the context of other surviving ‘portrait’ busts of the couple.

John Fendley (ed.), 2005, Notes on the Diocese of Gloucester by Chancellor Richard Parsons, c. 1700 (Bristol & Gloucs Archaeol. Soc. (Records Series, 19). xxiii + 576 pp. (incl. index), 1 illus. ISBN 0 900197 64 1. Hbk)
An edition of the original notes in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Rawl. B.323. The introduction notes that ‘Parsons paid especial attention to recording monumental inscriptions’ but ‘some of the largest and most ancient of monuments go unremarked’. Mentions of medieval monuments are mostly brief. Appendices of ‘Notes added by Richard Rawlinson’ and ‘Translations of epitaphs in Latin and Greek’.

Heather Gilderdale Scott, 2005, '"this little Westminster": the chantry-chapel of Sir Henry Vernon at Tong, Shropshire', Jnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc., 158, 46-81
An in-depth study (which won the BAA’s Reginald Taylor Essay prize) of this chapel, which includes the monument to Sir Henry Vernon (d.1515) and his wife Anne. Related monuments at Tong and elsewhere are also discussed.

Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, 2002, ‘The Margaret Fitzgerald tomb effigy: a late medieval headdress and gown in St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny’, in Désirée G. Koslin and Janet Snyder (eds.), Encountering medieval textiles and dress: objects, texts, images (The new Middle Ages) (Palgrave, New York), 209-22
Not seen by PJL but reference found from The Royal Historical Society’s on-line Bibliography which contains many other references searchable by keywords (www.rhs.ac.uk). Try searching on ‘effigies, funerary’ and ‘monuments, memorials and commemorations' for some further recent publications that have not all been listed in this Newsletter.

Christopher Herbert, 2006, ‘Permanent Easter sepulchres: a Victorian creation?', Church Archaeology, 7-9 (for 2003-5), 7-19

Aleksandra McClain, 2006, ‘A medieval grave slab from Northallerton, North Yorkshire: its style, use, and social contest’, Church Archaeology, 7-9 (for 2003-5), 131-4
Concerns an elaborate and unusual mid-12th-century grave slab, recently found hidden beneath the pews in All Saints church, inscribed ‘Nicol Scayl le Bone de Alertune’.
Harold Mytum and Kate Chapman, 2006, ‘The origin of the graveyard headstone: some 17th-century examples in Bedfordshire’, Church Archaeology, 7-9 (for 2003-5), 67-78

Kirsty Owen, 2006, ‘Iconographic representations of mortality and resurrection in 17th-century Gloucestershire’, Church Archaeology, 7-9 (for 2003-5), 79-95
Analyses the evidence from funerary monuments.

Warwick Rodwell, 2006, ‘Lichfield Cathedral: archaeology of the nave sanctuary’, Church Archaeology, 7-9 (for 2003-5), 1-6 & front cover
Includes discussion of the remarkable Anglo-Saxon carved slab (front cover), possibly from the shrine chest of St Chad. The slab, which retains considerable traces of polychromy, shows a figure of an angel, possibly the Archangel Gabriel from an Annunciation. See also British Archaeology, May/June 2006, 6-7.

Frits Scholten and Monique Verber, 2005, From Vulcan’s forge. Bronzes from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1450-1800 (Daniel Katz, London. 174 pp. incl. many b/w & col. illus. ISBN 0-9545058-2-4. Pbk. £30)
Includes (as cat. no. 2) the ten surviving bronze ‘weepers’ (on loan to the Rijksmuseum from the City of Amsterdam), attributed to Jean Delemer or a follower, from the tomb of Isabella of Bourbon (d. 1465), second wife of Charles the Bold, originally in the mausoleum set up in 1476 by her daughter, Mary of Burgundy, in St Michael’s Abbey, Antwerp. The bronze effigy from the tomb is preserved in the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp. Selections from the catalogue (including two of the weepers) were exhibited at Daniel Katz’s showrooms in Old Bond Street from 15 Nov. to 16 Dec. 2005 and a further selection is due to be exhibited at the Lichstenstein Museum, Vienna, 7 April to 3 July 2006.

Peter Sherlock, 2004, 'Monuments, Reputation and Clerical Marriage in Reformation England: Bishop Barlow's Daughters', Gender and History, 16: 57-82

T. van Bueren (ed.), 2005, Care for the here and the hereafter: Memoria, Art and Ritual in the Middle Ages (Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium. 332 pp., 127 b/w ill.+18 colour illus. ISBN 2-503-51508-8. Pbk. €95)
Titles of the papers are listed on Brepols webiste (www.brepols.net). To be reviewed in Church Monuments.

Philip Whittemore, 2004, 'The Guildford tomb in Chelsea Old Church'. Monumental Brass Society Transactions 17 pp. 132-35.
The article uses the evidence of an antiquarian drawing in BL MS Landsdown 874 to reconstruct the original appearance of the tomb to Lady Jane Guildford, Duchess of Northumberland (d. 1556); it is now badly damaged with the chest, canopy and pendant arches all lost.

Arne Karsten & Philipp Zitzlsperger (eds), 2004, Tod und Verklärung. Grabmalskulptur in der fruehen Neuzeit (Death and glorification. Monumental sculpture in the early modern age) (Böhlau Verlag, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna (www.boehlau.de) ISBN 3-412-14303-0 € 39.90)
This book contains a series of articles by different authors, mostly (but not exclusively) on Italian and papal monuments.

Hartmut Jericke, 2006, Begraben und Vergessen? Tod und Grablege der deutschen Kaiser und Koenige (To bury and forget? Death and interment of the German emperors and kings), 2 vols (DRW-Verlag Weinbrenner GmbH & Co, Leinfelden/Echterdingen (www.drw-verlag.de))
Vol. I - from King Rudoph of Hapsburg to Emperor Rudolph II (1291-1612)
(128 pp, 20 illus. ISBN 3-87181-020-7. Hbk. €12.90)
Vol. II - from the beginning to the end of the Hohenstaufen dynasty (128 pp, 23 illus. ISBN 3-87181-023-1. Hbk. €12.90)
These are relatively inexpensive and popular books with brief entries for every emperor and king up to 1612 which might thus be a helpful guidebook for non-Germans.

Paul Cockerham, 2006, Continuity and change: memorialisation and the Cornish funeral monument industry (British Archaeological Reports 121, Archaeopress, Oxford. xv + 616 pp, incl. 13 maps, 264 figs, b/w plates etc. ISBN 1841719455. Pbk £62 (£52 from Oxbow books))
Based on the PhD thesis of our member Paul Cockerham. Not yet seen by Philip Lankester but latest Oxbow catalogue says: ‘presents an extensive appraisal of several cohesive style groups of monuments, being the products of specific monument workshops in Cornwall from the end of the fifteenth century to the Commonwealth’.

Sarah Houlbrooke, 2006, ‘A study of the materials and techniques of [the] 13th century tomb of Aveine, Countess of Lancester [sic.], in Westminster Abbey’, The Conservator, 29 (for 2005/06), 105-116
An important study of one of the small number of British medieval sculpted tombs to retain a large proportion of its medieval polychromy.

Phillip Lindley 2006, ‘Two fourteenth-century tomb monuments at Abergavenny and the mournful end of the Hastings Earls of Pembroke’, in John R. Kenyon and Denise M. Williams (eds), Cardiff. Architecture and archaeology in the medieval Diocese of Llandaff (Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. Conference Transactions XXIX, Maney Publishing, Leeds. ISBN 1 904350 80 1 (978 1 904350 80 4) Hbk. £58; 1 904350 81 X (978 904350 81 1) Pbk. £24.50), 136-160

Harold Mytum, 2006, ‘Death, Burial and Commemoration: An Archaeological Perspective on Urban Cemeteries', in Adrian Green and Roger Leech (eds),
Cities In The World, 1500-2000 (Proceedings of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Conference, 2002, Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Monograph No. 3. Maney Publishing, Leeds. vii + 336 pp. ISBN 1 904350 02 X (978-1-904350-02-6) Hbk. £75), 213-234

Nigel Saul, 2006, ‘The contract for the brass of Richard Willoughby (d. 1471) at Wollaton (Notts.)’, Nottingham Medieval Studies, 50, 166-93.
This very important article centres on a previously unknown draft contract dated 1466 for one of the finest and most accomplished brasses of the later 15th century, commissioned by Richard Willoughby in his lifetime at a cost of 8 marks (Nottingham University Library, Middleton Collection Mi 5/168/34). It is the only known contract with a named London marbler, proving that James Reames was producing London D style brasses from a workshop in the London Blackfriars in the 1460s, although some time before 1471 he moved to St Paul’s churchyard. Comparison with the surviving brass in Willoughby’s chantry chapel at Wollaton shows how closely Reames adhered to his instructions. Although impressive in its own right, the brass formed only part of the monument. The elaborate canopied recess and open tomb chest enclosing a stone cadaver must have been separately commissioned; sadly the contract for the stonework does not appear to survive.

Fergus Cannan, 2006, ‘Alabaster representations of the Holy Spirit and allegations of Lollard vandalism’, Sculpture Journal, 15.1, pp. 92-97.

Paul Cattermole (ed.), 2007, Wymondham Abbey. A history of the monastery and parish church (Wymondham Abbey Book Committee, Wymondham. ISBN 978 0 9554899 11 (Hbk), 978 0 9554899 03 (Pbk)).
Includes: Jonathan Finch, ‘The monuments’ , pp. 276-287, 298 (6 medieval brass indents, otherwise post-medieval and mainly 18th- or 19th-century); and Melanie Rolfe, ‘The sedilia’, pp. 288-9 - of terra-cotta and linked to a series of East Anglian tombs in the same material - see A.P. Baggs in Arch J., 125 (1968); D. Purcell in Trans Assoc. for Study & Conservation of Hist. Buildings, 1 (1973).

Jackie Hall and Christine Kratske (eds), 2005, Sepulturae Cisterciensis: Burial, memorial and patronage in medieval Cistercian monasteries (special edition of Cîteaux - Comentarii Cisteriensis, 56. 420 pp., b & w illus.).
Much of interest for those who are good linguists. 13 articles in four languages: 5 English, 1 French, 4 German, 1 Spanish, plus Jackie Hall, Shelagh Sneddon and Nadine Sohr, ‘Table of legislation concerning the burial of laity and other patrons in Cistercian abbeys’, in Latin, with parallel translations in English, French and German, with two-page English introduction. Each paper has 100-150 word resumés in the three languages not used for the main text. Includes a long article (in German) by Annette Blattmacher on monuments in the Cistercian monasteries of Catalonia.

Sven Hauschke, 2005, Die Grabdenkmäler der Nürnberger Vischer-Werkstatt (1543-1544) [The funerary monuments of the Nuremburg Vischer workshop] ‘Bronzegeräte des Mittelalters’ Band 6 (Imhof Verlag, Petersberg (www.imhof-verlag.de)). 592 pp., 16 col. pls, & 483 b & w illus. ISBN: 3865680151. Hbk € 79.
To be reviewed in Church Monuments.

Hadrien Kockerols, 1999-2004, Monuments funéraires en pays mosan (Les editions namuroises, Namur), vol. 5, Arrondissement de Philippeville. 252 pp. ISBN 2-930378-34-4. € 38.
For volumes 1-4 see Newsletter 21/2, p. 25.

Jonathan Marsden, ‘A newly discovered bust of Catherine de Medici by Germain Pilon’, Burlington Magazine, 148, no. 1245, Dec. 2006, pp. 833-836.
A bronze bust in the Royal Collection (at Windsor Castle), bearing the title ‘Marie de Medici’, is shown to be an adaptation of Pilon’s full-length effigy of Catherine de Medice, carved (with that of her consort of Henry II of France) between 1583 and 1590 for the Valois Mausoleum at St Denis, Paris.

Nicholas, Rogers, 2006, ‘Hic Iacet …: the location of monuments in late medieval parish churches’, in Clive Burgess and Eamon Duffy (eds), The parish in late medieval England. Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 14 (Shaun Tyas, Donnington, 2006), pp. 261-281, illus. 29-33.
A review of the whole volume will appear in Church Monuments.

Tony Trowles, 2005, A bibliography of Westminster Abbey: a guide to the literature of Westminster Abbey, Westminster School and St Margaret’s Church published between 1571 and 2000 (Westminster Abbey Record Series, Boydell Press, Woodbridge. 400 pp. 10 digit ISBN: 1843831546; 13 digit ISBN: 9781843831549. Hbk £50).
Finding the numerous publications on the Abbey is a headache for any researcher and this volume will be a great help. Arranged by theme with indexes of authors and subjects it ‘provides full bibliographical details of more than 3300 printed works, including parliamentary papers, editions of archival sources, guide books, theses, historical monographs and journal articles’. Section VII, ‘Death, Burial and Memorialization’, includes sub-sections on Monumental Brasses, Tombs and Monuments to 1600, and Tombs and Monuments from 1600. Section VIII, ‘The Museum and the Collections’, includes a sub-section on the funeral effigies.

Françoise Baron, 2006, ‘Le médican, le prince, les prélats et la mort. L’appiration du transi dans la sculpture française du Moyen Age’, Cahiers Archaeologiques, 51, pp. 125-158
A reconsideration of the factors contributing to the first appearance of cadaver tombs in France in the 1390s, with an examination of all the known French examples (surviving and lost) dating to before 1425. Among other things, the author shows that many of those commemorated had links to Louis, Duke of Orléans (murdered 1407; he requested a cadaver effigy in his will of 1403) or his father, Charles V.

Jerome Bertram, 2007, ‘From Duccius to Daubernon: Ancient Antecedents for Monumental Brass Design’, in L. Gilmour (ed.), Pagans and Christians – from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Papers in honour of Martin Henig presented on the occasion of his 65th birthday, BAR International Series 1610, pp. 219-228
A useful survey of burial practice and commemoration from the Roman period to the end of the Middle Ages. It also has some interesting juxtapositions of illustrations of brasses and Roman funeral sculpture from Britain.

Paul Binski, 2006, ‘John the Smith’s Grave’, in Susan L’Engle and Gerald B. Guest (eds), Tributes to Jonathan J.G. Alexander. The Making and Meaning of Illuminated Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Art and Architecture (London, Harvey Miller. ix + 532 pp., ISBN 10: 1872501478; 13: 978-1872501475. Hbk € 200), pp. 386-93
Concerns the brass at Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire – a very early English inscription, formerly accompanied by a shield and, as first noted by Jerome Bertram, a shrouded demi-effigy (see John Blair, MBS Bulletin, 81, p. 431; Sally Badham, ‘Monumental Brasses and the Black Death – a Reappraisal’, Antiquaries J., 80, 2000, pp. 207-47, at p. 226).

P. Cockerham, 2007? ‘ “Three into one won’t go”: monuments in early modern Cornwall’, in Reiner Sörries and Stefanie Knöll (eds), Creating identities (proceedings of an international conference, 30 October - 2 November 2003, Kasseler Studien zur Sepulkralkulture, Band 11, Zentralinstiutut und Museum für Sepulkralkulture, Kassel) pp. 155-61
This article examines how the 16th century subjection of Cornish identity and autonomy and its consequent social tensions affected memorialisation in the county. At the start of the 16th century there was a tangible dichotomy between the commemoration of the aristocratic few, who favoured London-made tombs, and that of lower social orders, who chose verbal forms of memorialisation, such as guild rolls, until such options were denied by the Reformation. This lacuna was eventually filled by various tomb workshops favoured by different sections of Cornish society. Indigenous workshops catering for the lesser gentry began producing modest slate monuments in the last quarter of the 16th century. The new resident English pseudo-aristocracy which emerged by the beginning of the 17th century instead chose impressive 3-dimensional tombs from a Plymouth based workshop, while their counterparts with Cornish origins mostly ordered tombs made in Barnstaple from a type of alabaster quarried in Somerset.

Richard Cust, 2007, ‘Sir Henry Spelman investigates’, The Coat of Arms, 3rd series, 3, pt 1 (No. 213), Spring, pp. 25-34, col. pls 2, 3
Concerns a case brought before the Court of Chivalry in 1635 against Thomas Tuckfield of Tedbourne (Devon) who ‘was accused of having erected a large funeral monument in Credition church [in March 1630/31] on which “he hath placed arms and given his father the title of esquire”, in spite of the fact that his father, John, had been made to disclaim his gentility at the heralds’ visitation of Devon in 1620’.

Robert Favraud and Jean Michaud, 2000, 2002 Corpus des inscriptions de la France médiévale (Paris, CNRS Éditions, Pbk)
20: Côte d’Or (with Bernadette Mora) (2002, ix + 137 pp,. illus. ISBN 2271056616)
21: Yonne (2000, 360 pp., illus. ISBN 2271057698)
22: Calvados, Eure, Manche, Orne, Seine-Maritime (2002, 500 pp., illus. ISBN 2271060869)
The latest three volumes in this series which includes monumental inscriptions (several monuments are illustrated). The ‘medieval’ period covered by the Corpus ends at 1300.

David Gaimster, Sarah McCarthy and Bernard Nurse (eds), 2007, Making history. Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Royal Academy, London. ISBN 978-1-905711-03-1 (hbk); ISBN 978-1-905711-04-8 (pbk). 267 pp. incl. many col. illus. Hbk £40.00; Pbk £22.95 - at the time of the exhibition)
Catalogue of an exhibition at the Royal Academy, London (15 Sept.-2nd Dec. 2007) to mark the Tercentenary of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Includes a number of entries for exhibits connected with death, burial and monuments (including some by Sally Badham) and sections on the ‘Earliest antiquaries’ (largely by Graham Parry) and another on ‘Opening the tomb’ (with an introductory essay by Barry Marsden and Bernard Nurse).

Hadrien Kockerols, 2007, Monuments funéraires en pays mosan vol. 6, la Pointe de Givet. (Les editions namuroises, Namur, 160 pp. ISBN 978-2-930378-44-2. € 38).
Tombs and epitaphs 1200-1800. For vols 1-4 see Newsletter 21.2, p. 25; for vol. 5 see Newsletter 23.1, p. 24.

D.P. Mortlock and C.V. Roberts, 2007, The Guide to Norfolk Churches, (2nd revised and enlarged edn, The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge. 400 pp., illus., ISBN 13: 9780718830649. Pbk £25.00/US$52.50).
Includes some mentions of church monuments. Its sister publication The Guide to Suffolk Churches by D.P. Mortlock is currently under revision and will be published in the near future.

Ian Panter and Richard Hall, 2007, ‘Gingering up the Viking age in Lythe’, Yorkshire Archaeology Today, 13, Autumn, pp. 16-18
A Heritage Lottery Fund grant is enabling the better public display of what is numerically the largest collection of hogback grave markers at one site – at Lythe (North Yorkshire). Conservation of one of them, formerly in the churchyard (Lang no. 29), by the York Archaeological Trust has revealed for the first time, on one side, a crude human figure between two animals, which is compared with a similar scene on a hogback grave marker at Sockburn (Co. Durham).

Gordon Le Pard, 2007, ‘Two Purbeck marble coffin lids from Bincombe - with a Thomas Hardy connection’, Procs Dorset Nat. Hist. & Archaeol. Soc., 128, pp. 118-120
Concerns two medieval cross slab grave covers, in the churchyard, believed by local tradition to mark the burial place of two executed deserters from the German Legion (recorded in the parish registers) which record was the basis of Thomas Hardy’s short story ‘The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion’. However, it is pointed out that Hardy states several times that the graves were unmarked.

Margaret Pullen, 2007? (due November), The Monuments of the Parish Church of St Peter-at-Leeds (Maney Publishing, Leeds, about 244 pp, illus. ISBN 978 1 905981 52 6. Pbk £24.50/US$49).
For advance orders, contact Maney Publishing at Suite 1C, Joseph's Well, Hanover Walk, Leeds LS3 1AB or at www.maney.co.uk.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2007?, Isabella’s Weeper’s. Ten statues from a Burgundian tomb (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. 64 pp., 70 col. illus. Dutch and English editions. Pbk € 14.95. Can be ordered from the museum’s website: www.rijksmuseum.nl)
Weepers from the tomb of Isabella of Bournon (d 1465), second wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. Some of these figures were included in the exhibition catalogue by Frits Scholten and Monike Verber, From Vulcan's forge..., listed in Newsletter 21.1 and reviewed by Sally Badham in Church Monuments, 21, 2006, pp. 194-6

Simon Roffey, 2006, ‘Constructing a vision of salvation: chantries and the social dimension of religious experience in the medieval parish church’, Archaeol. J., 163, pp. 122-146
Seeks to increase the understanding of the ritual topography of churches, [articularly chantry chapels, by considering site lines, especially those enabled by squints.
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J.B. Trapp†, 2006, ‘Petrachan places. An essay in the iconography of commemoration’, J. Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 69, pp. 1-50
Includes a long discussion of Petrarch’s tomb, erected by his son-in-law Francescuolo, about 1374) in the burial ground of Sta Maria, Arquà Petrarca and the bronze head which was added in 1547 but now is preserved separately at the Casa Pertarca at Arquà. The tomb comprises a rectangular sarcophagus raised high on four columns, the whole of red Verona marble. Professor J. B. Trapp, formerly of the Warburg Institute, died in July 2005: see obituary in The Times, 3 August.

Wendy Walters-DiTraglia, 2007, ‘Death, commemoration and the heraldic funeral in Tudor and Stuart Cheshire and Lancashire’: Pt I, The Coat of Arms, 3rd series, 3, pt 1 (No. 213), Spring, pp. 35-54, col. pls 4, 5; Pt II, ibid., 3, pt 2 (No. 214), Autumn, pp. 103-116, col. pls 1 & 2
Pt I includes discussion of monuments and illus. of examples (in Lancs) at Winwick, and (in Cheshire) at Macclesfield (col. pl. 5), Over Peover (incl. col. pl. 4) and Gawsworth (Cheshire). Pt II focuses on the funerals of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby; Sir John Savage of Rock Savage and Sir Peter Leigh of Lyme, and includes col. illus. of effigies of Sir John Savage (d. 1597) and wife Elizabeth at Macclesfield (Cheshire) and alabaster effigies of c.1500 at Ormskirk (Lancashire), said to have come from Burscough Priory.

James Wilkinson, 2007, Henry VII’s Lady Chapel in Westminster Abbey (JW-Publications, Barnes, London. ISBN 0-9552470-2-0; 987-0-9552470-2-6. 40 pp. plus covers.
Includes several col. illus. of tombs.

Yorkshire Archaeological Society Family History Section, 2007, War memorials in the cemeteries of Leeds: inscriptions and details (YAS, Leeds. iv + 32 pp. ISBN 978-1-903564-95-0. 3 b/w illus. and 8 col. illus. (on covers). Pbk £4.00 plus 50p. p & p)
A record of the inscriptions on each monument with an index of names, compiled by Margaret Ford and others. Copies may be ordered from: Mrs Anne Hill, Publications Sales, Family History Section - Y.A.S., Claremont, 23 Clarendon Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 9NZ or at www.yorkshireroots.org.uk.

Sally Badham, 2007, ‘Whose body? Monuments displaced from St Edward the Confessor’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey’, J. British Archaeol. Assoc., 160, pp. 129-146
Considers four monuments as candidates for the one moved in 1395 to make way for the tomb of Richard II and Anne of Bohemia in the Confessor's Chapel: the Cosmatesque tomb in the south ambulatory, the tomb in the Chapel of St John the Baptist, known as the 'de Bohun tomb' (which Badham clearly demonstrates it cannot be), and the two tombs in the Chapel of Sts Edmund and Thomas: those of John of Eltham and William of Valence; concluding that the latter tomb is the most likely to have been moved from the nite now occupied by Richard II's tomb.

Sally Badham, 2007, ‘Edward the Confessor’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey: the origins of the Royal mausoleum and its Cosmatesque pavement’, Antiquaries J., 87, pp. 197-219
Examines evidence for early burials in St Edward the Confessor's Chapel, Westminster, making use of recent surveys by ground penetrating radar to locate probable, below-adult-size, burial cists, now covered by the Cosmatesque pavement surrounding the shrine. Consderation of the liekly candidates for these burials leads to the conclusions (1) that the establishment of a Royal mausoleum in the Abbey, usually dated to the 1290's went back some decades earlier and (2) that the Cosmatesque pavement was not laid down until the 1290's. It is further argued that this later dating of the shrine pavement, combined with observations on its construction (compared with the Sanctuary pavement and the shrine base), argues for it being made by English craftsmen after the departure of the Italians who were brought over for the earlier Cosmatesque works.

Ron Baxter, 2007, ‘The tombs of the archbishops of Mainz’, in Ute Engel and Alexandra Gajewski (eds), Mainz and the Middle Rhine Valley, (British Archaeological Assoc. Conference Transactions, 30, Leeds, British Archaeological Association and Maney Publishing. ISBN 978-1-904350-83-5 (Hbk), 978-1-904350-82-8 (Pbk)), pp. 68-79.
Synopsis: ‘Mainz Cathedral is unique in possessing memorials to its archbishops, in the form of [mostly relief effigial] tomb-slabs, that make up an almost complete series, ranging in date from the 13th century to the 19th. These slabs simultaneously constitute a wonderful corpus of German memorial sculpture and giv[not b]e expression to the singular status of the arch-diocese of Mainz. This article concentrates on the 13th-, 14th- and 15th-century memorials, exploring the kinds of message they may have been intended to transmit, and their status as tomb imagery’.

P[aul] Cockerham, 2007 ‘ “To mak a Tombe for the Earell of Ormon and to set it up Iarland”: Renaissance ideals in Irish funeral monuments’, in Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton (eds), Ireland in the Renaissance c. 1540-1660 (Dublin, Four Courts Press. 384 pp. ISBN 978-1-85182-988-0. Hbk. € 55), pp. 195-230
Examines aspects of the monuments industry in Kilkenny between 1560 and 1660, looking especially at the impact of the deliberately antiquarianised Butler tombs in St Candice ‘s cathedral and elsewhere in the Butler sphere of influence ordered en bloc by Piers Ruadh Butler to underpin his legitimate but contested inheritance of the earldom of Ormond; and the lost monument made by Nicholas Stone in 1614 to Piers’s successor, the 9th earl of Ormond, (known as Black Tom), the design of which probably inspired the early 17th-century Renaissance-style tombs produced by native craftsmen to Sir Richard and Elias Shee and John Roth Fitzpiers in St. Mary’s. Kilkenny.

Nancy Edwards, 2007, ‘Edward Lhuyd and the origins of early medieval Celtic archaeology’, Antiquaries J., 87, pp. 165-196
‘The Welshman Edward Henry Lhuyd (?1659/60-1709), Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum [Oxford] was a naturalist, philologist and antiquarian’. Assesses ‘his methodology for recording early medieval antiquities - particularly inscribed stones and stone sculpture in Wales and the Celtic regions’. Several memorial stones and cross slabs are discussed and illustrated.

T Fanning and M Clyne (eds), 2007, Kells Priory, Co. Kilkenny: archaeological investigations (Dublin, The Stationery Office. ISBN 0-7557-7582-1. €40)
Section 7.1, ‘The medieval funerary monuments’ by J. Higgins, pp. 453-467, includes low relief and incised cross slabs, sunken relief head slabs and one effigy fragment (upper body, less head).

Sam Fogg, 2007 Art of the Middle Ages, (Sam Fogg (dealer), London. ISBN 978-0-9553393-1-8. Pbk. £20 from Sam Fogg’s shop at 15D Clifford Street, London)
Fully illustrated catalogue of items, most or all of which were offered for sale. Includes a ‘weeper’ from the tomb of Aymon le Pacifique, Count of Savoy, formerly at the Abbey of Hautecombe, carved by Jean de Brecquessent (fl. 1299-1342) between 1331 and 1342. This figure was still displayed in Sam Fogg’s shop in late April 2008.

T Forsyth-Moser (ed.), 2008, Who do you think they were. The memorials of Ripon Cathedral, (Ripon. 128 pp. with many colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 978-0-9531979-2-7. Pbk. £7.50)
This book is written by a group of local enthusiasts. It is aimed primarily at the general market, although the dedicated students of church monuments will also find it a worthwhile buy. It covers all types of monuments right up to the 20th century, including graveyard monuments and WWI memorials, most of which are illustrated by good quality photographs. A mainly thematic approach is adopted (e.g. women and children; memorials to clergymen; memorials with an American connection), although there is a chronological focus to other chapters (medieval tombs; 17th century) and there are specialist sections on epitaphs, symbols and heraldry. It is well presented and written in a lively, accessible style. It is an ideal beginner's book, which hopefully will lead some readers to a deeper interest in church monuments.

Robin Griffith-Jones, [2008], The Temple Church [London]. A history in pictures, n.p. 83 pp., many illus., at least half in colour. Obtainable at the Temple Church. Price: £10, or by post (plus £1 for p. & p.) from Henrietta Amodio, The Master's House, Temple, London EC4Y 7BB. Cheques should be made payable to ‘The Temple Church’.
Published to coincide with an exhibition held at the Temple Church and a linked conference held at the Courtauld Institute on 14 June: ‘In despight of the devouring flame: the history, architecture and effigies of the Temple Church’. Both events celebrated the 400th anniversary of the granting of the Temple to the two Inns of Court, the Inner and Middle Temple, by James I in 1608. Includes several illustrations of the effigies and later monuments, in their former and current states (pp. 28-35, 38).

Jackie Hall, 2007, ‘Croxden Abbey church: architecture, burial and patronage’, J. British Archaeol. Assoc., 160, pp. 39-128
Includes sections on the death and burial of the Verduns (patrons of the abbey) and on other burials there with discussion and illustrations of the later 13th- or early 14th-century effigy, the palimpsest brass at Norbury (Derbys), presumed to commemorate Matilda de Verdun (d.1312) and two cross slab fragments.

C Heighway and R Bryant, 2007, The tomb of Edward II: a royal Monument in Gloucester Cathedral. (Past Historic, Kings Stanley, Stonehouse, 16 pp. incl. many illus, ISBN 9780955709302. Pbk £4.95)
After a short introduction this booklet analyses the form and structure of the tomb (built of Purbeck marble, oolitic limestone with an alabaster effigy) through a series of sequenced diagrams and detailed photographs with captions. Notice by Norman Hammond in The Times, 31 Dec. 2007, p. 49.

Phillip Lindley, 2007, ‘The funeral and tomb effigies of Queen Katherine of Valois and King Henry V’, J. British Archaeol. Assoc., 160, pp. 165-177
Synopsis: ‘This paper re-examines the identification and function of the funeral effigy of Queen Katharine of Valois in Westminster [Abbey]. The antiquarian evidence is analysed and the fate of her lost tomb-monument is discussed, as also is the scandalous neglect of the queen’s remains after they were exhumed in the early 16th century until their translation into the upper part of Henry V’s chantry chapel in the time of Dean Stanley.
Phillip Lindley, 2007, Tomb destruction and scholarship. Medieval monuments in early modern England (Donington, Shaun Tyas. ISBN 1 900289 873 (ten digits) & 978-1900289-870 (thirteen digits). Hbk. £35)
The first three chapters examine and analyse the causes and consequences of the destruction of tomb monuments resulting from the 16th-century Reformation and the 17th-century religious and political upheavals, including the arguments and legislation in defence of tombs and of their study by antiquaries. The last three chapters explore these themes through case studies of King Arthur’s tomb at Glastonbury, the Percy Tomb in Beverley Minster and the Herbert monuments at Abergavenny. To be reviewed in Church Monuments.

Aleksandra McClain, 2007, ‘Medieval cross slabs in the North Riding of Yorkshire’, Yorkshire Archaeol. J., 79, pp. 155-193
From the synopsis: ‘This article undertakes a systematic archaeological investigation of the cross slabs of the North Riding …, exploring their stylistic features and chronological development …, as well as examining the monuments within the physical and social contexts which were essential to their creation and use’.

Susie Nash (with contributions from Till-Holger Borchert and Jim Harris), 2007, ‘No equal in any land’. André Beauneveu, artist to the courts of France and Flanders (Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 216 pp. incl. many illus. (all but a few in colour). ISBN (English edition) 978 903470 66 4 (Dutch & French editions also available). Pbk. £30.
Published to accompany the exhibition ‘The dawn of the Burgundian age: André Beauneveu, artist to the courts of France and Flanders’, at the Groeningenmuseum, Bruges, 14 September 2007 - 6 January 2008. The star exhibit was a statue of the Virgin and Child, known as the Aynard Virgin, which had recently reappeared on the market after many years in a private collection. To be reviewed in Church Monuments.

Roberta Panzanelli with Eike Schmidt and Kenneth Lapatin (eds), 2008, The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present. exhib cat. 200 pages, 9 x 12 in., 166 colour and 10 b/w illustrations. Hbk ISBN 978-0-89236-917-1, $75; Pbk, ISBN 978-0-89236-918-1, $49.95
(from the Getty website: http://www.getty.edu/bookstore/titles/colorlife.html) ‘Published to coincide with an exhibition [at] the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa [Malibu, California] from 6 March to 23 June, 2008 … The works are presented not chronologically but in pairings and sequences that inspire insightful connections, tracing aspects of the impulse that through the ages has inspired sculptors to endow otherwise monochrome figures with the color of life’. To be reviewed in Church Monuments.

Simon Roffey, 2007, The medieval chantry chapel: an archaeology (Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 208 pp incl. 37 b & w & 36 line illus., selected gazetteer, bibliography & index. ISBN 978 1 84383 334 5. Hbk. £40.
Contents (taken from the publisher’s flyer): (1) Introduction, (2) Medieval visions of the afterlife, (3) Setting the context: early origins and influences on later medieval chantry, (4) Sources and approaches, (5) Medieval chantry chapels: form and fabric, (6) The social and religious context of chantry chapels in the medieval parish, (7) The Reformation and chantry chapels, (8) Case studies: Stoke Charity, Bridgwater and Mere, (9) Conclusions. For the author’s 2006 article on this theme see Newsletter 23/2, p. 30.

Nigel Saul, 2007, ‘The growth of a mausoleum: the pre-1600 tombs and brasses of St George’s Chapel, Windsor’, Antiquaries J., 87, pp. 220-258
From the Synopsis: ‘A comprehensive study is attempted of the pre-1600 monuments in the St George’s Chapel … Use is made for the first time of … the set of plans of the chapel floors made by Henry Emlyn in 1789 [which] show the chapel once to have contained a large collection of monumental brasses [the great majority of which] commemorated the deans and canons who served the chapel. It is argued that the character of the chapel as a mausoleum changed after 1475, when Edward IV embarked on the building of the present fabric. From this time, the ranks of the commemorated expanded to include layfolk, particularly Knights of the Garter and men with royal connections, while, alongside the brasses, big sculpted monuments were commissioned in the side chapels of the building’.

Christopher Starr, 2007 Medieval mercenary. Sir John Hawkwood of Essex, (Essex Record Office, Chelmsford), ISBN 978-1-898529-27-9. 92 pp with many colour illustrations. £9.99.
Drawn from information on the ERO website: ‘tells the story of Sir John Hawkwood of Sible Hedingham, the most famous condottiere of his day. Hawkwood's rise from ordinary solider to commanding general is described, as is his marriage to Donnina Visconti, daughter of the tyrant of Milan.’ It deals with Hawkwood’s two monuments: one, in the Duomo, Florence, is a fresco of an equestrian monument and the other, in his chantry at Sible Hedenham, Essex, is a canopied tomb chest. Various other monuments of descendants are also illustrated. To be reviewed in Church Monuments.

J P G Taylor, 2008(?) A fair gate to oblivion. A celebration of the English epitaph, (Ricall, York, Oblong (publishers). vii. + 208 pp, 37 illus. ISBN 978 9536574 9 0 Pbk £18 plus p & p.)
Extracted from publisher’s flyer: This ‘book includes almost 400 examples of the genre [of the English epitaph], about one third of which are drawn from Yorkshire … The work is not an anthology, but rather an explanation of the changing language of the epitaph and the way in which it has reflected changing religious beliefs and social attitudes’.

Jean Wilson, 2007, ‘Anyone for tennis? The monument to Captain Gervase Scrope in St Michael’s, Coventry’, Antiquaries J., 87, pp. 357-364.
Synopsis: ‘The monument to Captain Gervase Scrope was destroyed in 1940, but a rubbing survives in the Society [of Antiquaries of London]’s collections. It alludes to Real Tennis, and in doing so takes part in a debate extending from Plautus to Stephen Hawking about the attitude of the Creator to the universe, although the side it takes is, in an ecclesiastical setting, unexpected’.

Alex Woodcock, 2007, ‘Death and the mermaid: the carved capitals at St Michael’s Horwood (North Devon) and their patron’, J. British Archaeol. Assoc., 160, pp. 147-164
Includes discussion and illustration of the mid-15th-century alabaster female civilian effigy in the north chapel.

John Ashdown-Hill, 2008, ‘The opening of the tombs of the Dukes of Richmond and Norfolk, Framlingham, April 1841: the account of the Reverend J.W. Darby’, The Ricardian, 18, pp. 100-107.
Darby records six bodies, found in vaults under the two tombs, which it is conjectured were those of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk, who was buried at Framlingham from the outset, and five of his family whose bodies were removed from Thetford Priory (Norfolk) after the Dissolution.

Jean Wilson draws attention to the Peterhouse Annual Record (an outstandingly good publication for alumni of that College), covering the years 2004/5, which takes death as its theme. It contains a number of articles of interest to members, including one by James Stevens Curl on monuments to the Curl family at Soberton in Hampshire. There are also a number of funerary-themed cartoons.

Paul Everson and David Stocker, ‘Masters of Kirkstead: hunting for salvation', in John McNeill (ed.) King’s Lynn and the Fens: Medieval art, architecture and archaeology (Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. Conf. Trans XXXI, for 2005, Leeds. 256 pp., incl. 214 b & w figs + 8 pp. col. pls including 12 figs. ISBN 978 1 906540 15 9 Hbk, £72; ISBN 978 1 906540 16 5 Pbk, £34), pp. 83-111
Interprets the detached, 13th-century St Leonard’s chapel, not (as traditionally proposed) a capella ante portas (which makes no sense in terms of the main approach to the abbey) but as a chantry chapel with the thirteenth-century Purbeck marble effigy as a central focus, commemorating either Robert de Tateshale 3 (d. 1249) or, less probably, made retrospectively for his father, Robert de Tateshale 2 (d. 1212) at the institution of the chantry. This volume to be reviewed in Church Monuments.

Jean Gidman, 2008, ‘The identity of the effigies in the Derby Chapel, Ormskirk Parish Church: a re-assessment’, Aspects of Heraldry, no. 22, pp. 15-21. Available from David M, Krause, Hon FHS, 6 Carrara Road, Wyke, Bradford , BD12 9LH, price £4 plus 50 p. p & p; cheques payable to Yorkshire Heraldry Society.
Concerns the four alabaster effigies - two military and two female civilian, now arranged as two pairs. On the basis of heraldry on the tabards of the two ‘knights’ and the instructions for a series of effigies (‘personage’) at Burscough Priory in the will of the 1st Earl of Derby (d. 1504) the surviving effigies are identified as for: Thomas Stanley, 2nd Lord Stanley and 1st Earl of Derby; his second wife Lady Margaret Beaufort (d. 1509); his father, Thomas Stanley, 1st Lord Stanley (d. 1458/9); and either the first Earl’s first wife Eleanor Neville (d. before Nov. 1482) or his mother Joan Goushill (who survived her husband). Although not mentioned in the article, it is interesting that both Lady Margaret Beaufort and the 1st Earl also had cast copper alloy effigies, the former in Westminster Abbey and the latter lost (see J. Harvey, English Medieval Architects, 2nd edn 1984, p. 128).

Mark Horton and Katherine Robson Brown, 2007, ‘An aristocratic mausoleum at Grosbot Abbey (Poitou-Charente, France)’, in Michael Costen (ed.), People and places: essays in honour of Mick Aston (Oxford, Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-1-84217-251-3), pp. 137-165
Concerns a freestanding mausoleum, in use between about 1200 and 1300. Its location to the east of the claustral buildings of the Cistercian monastery raises interesting questions about access. Although most of the monuments and surface grave covers had been robbed from the graves (which included both stone sarcophagi and slab-built burial places) one coffin had a cross on its underside which was interpreted as a substantial grave marker which had been had been turned over, and hollowed out for re-use as a coffin. This coffin stood on one half of an intriguing slab-built pair of burial chambers in the centre of the building, each half of which had a lower burial chamber accessed by slabs with rings in the floor of the upper levels. It is likely this was to provide a receptacle for charnel when the upper compartments were re-used.

Sam Hutchison, 2008, The Light of Other Days: A selection of monuments, mausoleums and memorials in Church of Ireland churches and graveyards and those whom they commemorate (Dublin, Wordwell, 2008, 160 pp. Incl. 120 col. illus; ISBN 978-1-905569-19-9. Hbk. €35).
An interesting and lavishly illustrated survey by an enthusiast which provides an interesting introductory survey of Irish memorials and sets them in their historical context.

William Lack, H. Martin Stuchfield and Philip Whittemore, 2008, The monumental brasses of Herefordshire (The County Series, Stratford St Mary.
xx + 251 pp. incl. many b. & w. illus. ISBN 978 0 9554484 0 9 Pbk £35 incl. p & p.). Copies obtainable from: The County Series, Lowe Hill House,
Stratford St Mary, Suffolk, CO7 6JX. Cheques should be made payable to 'The County Series'.
The latest volume in this important and impressive series, giving a detailed listing of the monumental brasses of the English counties, is published in memory of our late member John Coales (see obituary by Paul Cockerham, Church Monuments, 22, 2007, pp. 159-160). Previously published volumes are also available from the same address as follows (all prices incl. p & p): Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to Durham: £20 each; Essex to Herefordshire:
£35 each; Berkshire and Buckinghamshire are out of print but a CD version is available at £20.

Julian M. Luxford, 2008, ‘The tomb of Sir Humphrey de Littlebury at All Saints, Holbeach’, in John McNeill (ed.) King’s Lynn and the Fens: Medieval art, architecture and archaeology (Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. Conf. Trans XXXI, for 2005, Leeds. 256 pp., incl. 214 b & w figs + 8 pp. col. pls including 12 figs. ISBN 978 1 906540 15 9 Hbk, £72; ISBN 978 1 906540 16 5 Pbk, £34), pp. 148-169
Analyses this important and unusual tomb and concludes that the chest was made about the time of Sir Humphrey’s death in 1339 and that the effigy was added about 20 years later. This volume to be reviewed in Church Monuments.

Julian M Luxford, 2008, ‘The Collegiate Church as Mausoleum’, in Clive Burgess and Martin Heale (eds), The Late Medieval English College and its Contents (York Medieval Press (Boydell & Brewer), Woodbridge. 312 pp. incl. 6 b/w & 2 line illus. ISBN: 9781903153222. Hbk £45), pp. 110-139.

Nigel Saul, [2006], ‘Shadows of the past: indents of lost brasses in the Rutland Chapel [St Georges’ Chapel, Windsor]’, Society of Friends of St George’s and Descendants of Knights of the Garter, Annual Report, 2005/2006, pp. 374-79.
Four of the indents are illustrated by colour photographs.

Nigel Saul, 2008, ‘The medieval monuments of St Mary’s, Barton-on-Humber [Lincs]’, in Matthew Davies & Andrew Prescott (eds), London and the Kingdom: essays in honour of Caroline Barron (Procs of the 2004 Harlaxton Symposium, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, XVI, Shaun Tyas, Donington), pp. 265-71 & Pls 19-23.
Discusses the important but worn collection of brasses and incised slabs, many imported from the Low Countries, in the social and economic context of the port of Barton and those commemorated.
This volume to be reviewed in Church Monuments

Jane Spooner, 2008, ‘The fourteenth-century wall-paintings at Castle Acre Priory and Greyfriars, Great Yarmouth’, in John McNeill (ed.) King’s Lynn and the Fens: Medieval art, architecture and archaeology (Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. Conf. Trans XXXI, for 2005), Leeds. 256 pp., incl. 214 b & w figs + 8 pp. col. pls including 12 figs. ISBN 978 1 906540 15 9 Hbk, £72; ISBN 978 1 906540 16 5 Pbk, £34, pp. 170-85 & col. Pls 6 & 7A.
The Great Yarmouth Greyfriars paintings are on a pair canopied tomb recesses, (each containing a plain Purbeck marble slab), here dated to about 1310 and originally situated in the south wall of the friary church nave. In addition to polychromy on the canopies’ tracery, the back wall of the better preserved recess is divided into a pair of painted canopies with a female head under one of them. This volume to be reviewed in Church Monuments.

Christian Steer, 2008, ‘Commemoration and women in medieval London’, in Matthew Davies & Andrew Prescott (eds), London and the Kingdom: essays in honour of Caroline Barron (Procs of the 2004 Harlaxton Symposium, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, XVI), Shaun Tyas, Donington), pp. 230-45 & Pls 24-28.
Uses the evidence of John Stow’s survey and other sources to examine lost monuments. Appendix II is a list of ‘surviving monuments to women in [the City of] London’ down to 1594. This volume to be reviewed in Church Monuments.

Danielle Westerhof, 2008, Death and the body in medieval England (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 300 pages pp. 3 b/w illus., 1 line illus. ISBN 978 1 84383 416 8. Hbk £50).
(adapted from publisher’s summary) Examines how contemporary ideas about death and dying disrupted the abstract early medieval ideal of the aristocratic body. Explores the meaning of aristocratic funerary practices such as embalming and heart burial, and, conversely, looks at what the gruesomely elaborate executions of aristocratic traitors in England around the turn of the fourteenth century reveal about the role of the body in perceptions of group identity and society at large.

John Ashdown-Hill, 2008, ‘The epitaph of Richard III’, The Ricardian, 18, pp. 31-45
Although Richard III’s alabaster tomb at Leicester does not survive, various transcripts of the inscription are known. Previously dismissed as a seventeenth-century invention, it is shown to be consistent with a date of c.1495, the date the tomb was made, and is addressed to Henry VII in person. Reasons are explored as to why it lacks hostility to Richard III, while also praising Henry VII.

Sally Badham and Geoff Blacker, 2009, Northern Rock: The Use of Egglestone Marble for Monuments in Medieval England . British Archaeological Reports, 480, Oxford. vi + 187 pp. incl. gazetteer, catalogues, data Appendices; illus. throughout with figs, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, incl. 3 col. Pls. ISBN 9781407304151. Pbk £38.00)
(adapted from the publisher’s web site) Egglestone marble, which has received little attention in the past, is one of a group of so-called sedimentary ‘marbles’, such as the better-known Purbeck and Tournai marbles, capable of receiving a high polish. When freshly quarried it is suitable for detailed carving, and the fact that it is capable of being extracted in very large blocks and slabs. The description of the stone in this study is based on polished samples taken from the quarry known as ‘Abbey Quarry’, in the North Riding of Yorkshire.. No examples have been found of the stone’s deployment for columns or other structural elements in buildings, but there is a wealth of material and documentary evidence of its widespread employment for other artifacts, including tomb-chests, low relief and incised slabs, slabs for monumental brasses and other grave slabs. (This book will be reviewed in Church Monuments by Tim Palmer)

Fraser Brown and Christine Howard-Davis 2008, Norton Priory: Monastery to Museum. Excavations 1970-87 (Lancaster imprints 16, Oxford Archaeology North. 473 pp., 296 figs and 234 pls. ISBN(13) 978-0-904220-52-0; ISBN(10) 0-904220-52-4. Pbk £48.50)
Includes: Laurence Keen, ‘The Medieval Tiled Floors of the Priory’. Tile Group 7 (pp. 257-9) are tiles with hand-incised curved and undulating lines representing mail, interpreted as coming from a tile mosaic monumental military figure, here dated to the first half of the fourteenth century. Some other tile mosaic pieces may be from the same monument. Such monuments are rare in this country: fragments of other tile effigies from Whalley Abbey (Lancs) and Warden Abbey (Beds) are mentioned. There are also sections (not yet seen by PJL) on the stone grave covers and markers and on the well-known stature of St Christopher.

Brian Carne, 2007, Curiously painted: an illustrated history of the St. John family polyptych at Lydiard Tregoze: its makers and its message (Friends of Lydiard Park, Bierton. 246 pp. ISBN(13) 978-0-9555357-0-3. Pbk £29.50)

Joan Coutu, 2006, Persuasion and Propaganda: Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Montreal, Canada, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 496 pp., 160 pp. of b & w illus. ISBN(13) 9780773531307. Hbk. US $60.00; CA $ 60.00
(edited from the publisher’s website): In the eighteenth century sugar planters, merchants, aristocrats, politicians, and governments erected hundreds of commemorative monuments throughout the British Empire as expressions of social status, personal dynasties, territorial occupation, and imperial ambitions. In a culture transformed by the rising merchant class, these monuments – inherently public and hopefully permanent – underscored the economic, political, and cultural complexities of the emerging empire. Persuasion and Propaganda is the first study of these works of art within the framework of colonial politics and political culture. From private funeral monuments in the West Indies to works erected by the East India Company and the British Parliament, Coutu shows how the youthful British Empire saw itself and validated its mission through sculpture.

Matthew Craske, 2007, The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770 (Yale University Press, London & New Haven. 256 pp, 60 b & w illus. ISBN(13): 978-0-300-14603-7. Hbk £45)
Reviewed by Simon Watney, Church Monuments, 23, 2008, pp 156-8
(adapted from publisher’s information) This book is the first to examine eighteenth-century British funeral monuments in their social, as well as their artistic, context, looking not only at the sculptors who created the monuments, but also the people who commissioned them and the people they commemorated. The author begins by analyzing the relationship of tomb designs to the changing and diverse culture of death in eighteenth-century England, and then explains conditions of production and the shifting dynamics of the market. He concludes with an analysis of the motivations of the people who commissioned monuments, from aristocrats to merchants and professional people.

Antje Fehrmann, 2008, Grab und Krone. Koënigsgrabmaëler im mittelalterlichen England und die posthume Selbstdarstellung der Lancaster (Tombs and the Crown. Royal tombs in medieval England and the posthumous Lancastrian self-representation) (Deutscher Kunstverlag, München-Berlin. 320 pp., incl. 142 b & w figs plus 30 col. illus. ISBN(13) 978-3-422-06728-8. Hbk €51)
To be reviewed by Sophie Ooterwijk.

A. A. Gill, 2009, 'Where the dead don't sleep', National Geographic, 215, No. 2, February 2009, pp. 118-134 & 148.
Concerns mummies in Sicily, mostly nineteenth-century; with some rather gruesome photographs. As the mummies can be viewed, they might be considered to form a sort of memorial – a sort of auto-icon, reminiscent of Jeremy Bentham’s at University College, London; or of the bodies of saints exposed to view in some Catholic churches, especially in Italy.

Madeleine Gray, 2006, ‘The medieval bishops’ effigies at Llandaff Cathedral’, Archaeologia Cambensis, 153, for 2004, pp. 37-50
Demonstrates the difficulties of reconciling antiquarian accounts with the effigies now surviving and suggests some possible solutions.

Barbara J. Harris, 2009, ‘The Fabric of Piety: Aristocratic Women and Care of the Dead, 1450–1550’, Journal of British Studies, April, 48, No. 2, pp. 308-335
Alessandra Bigi Iotti, 2008, ‘Andrea Sansovino and the design for a funerary monument for Leo X’, Burlington Magazine, 150, no. 1268, November, pp. 757-759
The present monument to Pope Leo X (d. 1521) in S. Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, was not commissioned until 1536. This article discusses an earlier unrealised design, known from a drawing in the Victoria and Albert Museum (attributed by Ulrich Middeldorf to Andrea Sansovino), and another drawing of the same design, possibly earlier but with the lower half missing, in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence (here identified for the first time), and compares the design with other known monuments and designs by Sansovino.

Eva Leistenschneider, 2008, Die französische Königsgrablege Saint-Denis. Strategien monarchischer Repräsentation 1223 bis 1461 (The French royal burials at Saint-Denis. Strategies of monarchic representation 1223 to 1461) (Weimar: VDG - Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften. 3562 pp., 121 illus., ISBN (13): 9783897395800. €68; also available as a download from publisher’s website €47.60)
To be reviewed.

Simon Marsden, 2007, Memento Mori: Churches and Churchyards of England (English Heritage, Swindon. Hbk as low as £7.99 from various remainder outlets, originally c.£25?) To be reviewed by Peter Hacker

David Meara, 2009 (chk), Modern Memorial Brasses 1880-2001, Donington, Shaun Tyas Publishing, x + 302 pp. incl. 193 b & w and 3 col. pls. ISBN(13) 978 900289 85 6, ISBN(10) 1 900289 85 7. Hbk £35)
Beautifully produced with fine quality illustrations (including some of the artists and engravers), this book includes a useful ‘checklist of nineteenth and twentieth-century figure brasses’, though the author does not claim it is exhaustive. This book will be reviewed in Church Monuments.

Oliver Meys, 2009, Memoria und Bekenntnis. Die Grabdenkmäler evangelischer Landesherren in Heiligen Römischen Reich Deutscher Nation im Zeitalter der Konfessionaliserung (Memoria and denomination. The tomb monuments of evangelical princes in the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation in the period of confessionalization) (Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg. 888 pp., 150 illus. ISBN(13) 978-3-7954-2173-1. €149)
To be reviewed by Stphanie Knoëll

Erika Naginski, 2009, Sculpture and Enlightenment (Oxford University Press, Oxford.
336 pages; 33 color and 78 b/w illustrations. ISBN(13) 978-0-89236-959-1, ISBN(10) 0-89236-959-0. Hbk $45) – Not yet published at 1 May but due out shortly
(edited from publisher’s web site): This book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-century France. As royal and ecclesiastical authority waned under the rule of Louis XV, there emerged nascent democratic institutions, a new metaphysics, and a radical political consciousness – a paradigm shift that profoundly marked the forms that commemorative sculpture and architecture took. As a French Catholic heritage gave way to more civic-minded and secular views of posterity, how was the monument reinterpreted? How did works by Clodion, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Augustin Pajou, Marie-Joseph Peyre, and Jacques Germain Soufflot, among others, speak to the aesthetic philosophies of Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire? Analyzing an extraordinary range of artistic projects--from unrealized plans for a Bourbon memorial to the sculptural program for the Pantheon – the author appraises how the Enlightenment art of res publica intersected with historical forces, social movements, and continental philosophies that brought Western culture to the cusp of modernity.
To be reviewed by Marjorie Trusted

Denys Pringle, 2008, An Expatriate Community in Tunis 1648-1885: St. George's Protestant Cemetery and its Inscriptions (Oxford, John and Erica Hedges, Ltd. (BAR, International ser., S1811; Cardiff Studies in Archaeology). 178 pp. ISBN(13) 9781407302225, ISBN(10) 1407302221. Pbk £45 )
(extracted from author’s profile on Cardiff University web site): A piece of ground outside the Carthage Gate in which English and other Protestants who died in Tunis might be buried was granted to the British consul by Hammuda Bay in the 1640s. It continued to be used for that purpose until 1885, when a new municipal cemetery opened outside Bab al-Khadra. In 1890, new Anglican church of St George was built over part of the cemetery, the tombstones that lay in its way being saved and arranged around the walls. Altogether some 114 tomb texts survive from 1648-1885. They relate to mariners, merchants, consuls and their families, and later to missionaries, engineers and railway personnel. The deceased came not only from Britain but also from Scandinavian countries, France, Italy, Holland and the United States. From 1860 onwards the information from the inscriptions is supplemented by the Anglican church registers.

Mark Roffey, 2008, Chantry Chapels: and Medieval strategies for the Afterlife (Tempus, Stroud, 208 pp. ISBN 0752445715, ISBN-13 9780752445717. 208 pp. Pbk. £17.99
This book will be reviewed in Church Monuments. For the author’s 2007 book on chantry chapels, see Newsletter 24/2, p. 29.

Nigel Saul , 2007, English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages: history and representation (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 413 pp. Incl. 78 b & w illus., bibliography and indexes. ISBN 978-0-19-921598-0. Hbk. £65)
Outstandingly important survey – the result of many years of information gathering and thought– which seeks to set the monuments in their historical context. The first seven chapters discuss such topics as historiography, market and fashion, production, and function and meaning. Then follow chapters on effigies by type: military, civilian, legal, female and ‘the macabre’ (cadavers and the like), followed by an important chapter discussing the history, function and survival of inscriptions. An appendix provides ‘A list of sculpted effigial monuments of civilians in England to c.1500’. This book will be reviewed in Church Monuments.

Tony Trowles, 2008, Treasures of Westminster Abbey (Scala Publications, London & New York. 176 pp. 174 col & 9 b & w illus ISBN(13): 9781857594546; ISBN(10) 1857594541. Pbk £16.95). To be reviewed in Church Monuments

Geoffrey Tyck, 2009, The restored tomb of John Townsend at St Giles's Church, Oxford' Oxoniensia, 73 (for 2008), pp. 198-9
Describes the tomb-chest with classical mouldings and a flaming urn atop to Townsend (d. 1728), the founder of the famous dynasty of master masons, and also discusses his work and that of his descendents.

Simon Watney, 2009, 'John Busnell in Chichester: the monument to Bishop Carleton', Burlington Magazine, 150, no. 1268, 759-762
Argues for Bushnell’s authorship of Carleton’s monument on stylistic grounds, by comparison with features on his documented monuments, including ‘his enthusiastic use of greatly enlarged decorative details’ and his highly distinctive putti ‘with deeply cut retinas, wind-swept hair, and streamlined rubbery bodies’.

Adam White, 2009, 'A Biographical Dictionary of London Tomb Sculptors c1560-c.1660: Addenda and Corrigenda', The Walpole Society, 71, pp. 325-55
Supplement to the author's original dictionary which was published in Walpole Society, vol 60. Contains significant new information on many of the leading sculptors of the period, including the Colt (Poutrain) family, John Christmas, Cornelius Cure, Epiphanius Evesham, Edward and Joshua Marshall and Nicholas Stone the Elder.

Kim Woods, 2007, Imported Images. Netherlandish Late Gothic Sculpture in England c.1400-c.1500 Donington, Shaum Tyas, 586 pp. inc. 242 plates (some in colour) ISBN(13)978-1900289-832, ISBN(10) 1900289830. Hbk £49.50
Comprised three introductory chapters: 'Sculpture in the Low Countries c.1400-c.1550', 'Importing Continental sculpture into England in the fifteenth century', and 'Netherlandish sculpture in English churches, c.1800-c.1950', and a schorlarly catalogue of 109 pieces (many of which are published for the first time). Not directly concerned with funerary monuments, though they receive occasional mention and the catalogue includes 'entombment' images of the dead Christ from the Mercers' Hall, London, and St Alban's Cathedral. Fascinating section on pp. 7-8 on 'hallmarks' applied to sculpture made in Brussels, Antwerp and Mechelen, from 1454, 1470 and c. 1500 respectively.

Amy Blakeway, 2009, ‘The Response to the Regent Moray's Assassination’, Scottish Historical Review, 88, no. 1, Apr, pp. 9-33

(extracted from author’s abstract in the British Humanities Index) Examines the immediate contemporary response to the assassination of James Stewart, earl of Moray and regent of Scotland. Moray's funeral and tomb are considered alongside the series of popular printed responses to his demise, largely written by the prolific King's party propagandist Robert Sempill. This article concludes that Sempill's discussion of Moray's assassination and posthumous eulogisation of Moray constituted a powerful and effective aspect of King's party rhetoric, which dominated discussion during the first six months of 1570, the urgency and efficacy of which deserves recognition. (Author abstract)

Inga Brinkmann, 2009, Grabdenkmäler, Grablegen und Begräbniswesen des lutherischen Adels. Adelige Funeralrepräsentation im Spannungsfeld von Kontinuität und Wandel im 16. und beginnenden 17. Jahrhundert (Tomb monuments, burials and the funerary customs of the Lutheran nobility. Aristocratic funerary representation in a period of tension between continuity and change in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.), Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien, 163 (Deutscher Kunstverlag: Berlin. 432 pp., 321 b/w illus. ISBN 978-3-422-06918-3. Hbk., €58)

Elizabeth Buettner, 2006, 'Cemeteries, Public Memory, and Raj Nostalgia in Postcolonial Britain and India', History & Memory, 18.1, Spring/Summer, pp. 5-42.

Ilas Burtusch, 2009, Die Inschriften der Stadt Baden-Baden und des Rastatt (Die Deutsche Inschriften 78 Band, Dr Ludwig Reichart Verlag Wiesbaden. 752 pp, 314 illus., 1 map. ISBN 978-3-89500-707-1. Hbk, about €88)

Survey of 541 inscriptions up to about 1650. The latest volume in the German Inschriften series containing a number of inscriptions on effigies (normally incised or low relief) and other funerary slabs. Other volumes are listed on the rear dust jacket flap. For a full list, see www.inschriften.net.

Brendan Cassidy, 2009, ‘The Tombs of the Acciaioli in the Certosa del Galluzzo outside Florence’, in J. Luxford (ed.) Studies in Carthusian Monasticism in the Late Middle Ages (Medieval Church Studies 14) (Brepols: Turnhout, xvi + 367 pp., 45 b/w ill., 1 b/w table, ISBN 978-2-503-51699-8. Hbk €70.00): pp. 323-353

Paul Cockerham, 2009, ‘My body to be buried in my owne monument’: the social and religious context of Co. Kilkenny, funeral monuments, 1600–1700’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C, 109, pp. 241-365, published on line at http://www.ria.ie/cgi-bin/ria/papers/100831.pdf. (papers in this journal are now published on line when ready; the hard copy volume will be published when all the contents are ready.)

The seventeenth-century funeral monuments of Co. Kilkenny are documented in this study and changes in their design and meaning related both to local socio-economic factors and wider historical events. The traditional ‘box-tombs’ of the start of the century, displaying Christo-centric iconography, were slowly abandoned in favour of more visual monumental forms such as heraldic wall plaques and much larger mural structures Monumental enthusiasm during the Kilkenny Confederacy (1642–9) was terminated abruptly by the Cromwellian invasion; following which, a lack of both suitable patrons and skilled sculptors hindered the resumption of the custom until well into the eighteenth century.

Jane Crease, 2009, ‘The Sherriff Hutton tomb’, The Ricardian Bulletin, Pt I, September, pp. 37-39, Pt II, December, pp. 39-41

Vincent Debiais, 2009, Messages de Pierre: lectures des inscriptions dans la communication médiévale (XIIIe - XIVe siècles) (Brepols: Turnhout; Cultures et Société Médiévale 17. viii + 422 pp., 149 b & w illus. ISBN: 978-2-503-53123-6; Pbk €75)

This book will be reviewed in Church Monuments. A summary is available on publisher’s web site (www.brepols.net).

Gary Dempsey, 2009 ‘In search of the “Bully's Acre” ’ Archaeology Ireland, 23.3 Autumn 2009, pp. 9-10

Concerns burial sites for the destitute.

Claudia Denk & John Ziesemer, eds, 2007, Städtische Bestattungskultur von der Aufklärung bis zum frühen 20 Jahrhundert (Urban burial culture from the Enlightenment to the early 20th century). Transactions of a conference held in November 2005 (Schnell und Steiner: Regensburg. 239 pp and many illus. about €50?)

Philipp Fehl, 2007, Monuments and the Art of Mourning: The Tombs of Popes and Princes in St. Peter's [Rome], revised and completed by Raina Fehl, ed. R. Boesel and R. Fehl

Unione Internazionale degli Istituti di Archaeologia Storia e Storia dell'arte in Roma: Rome.

Pbk, 201 pp text, 38 illus. $35)

Richard Marks, 2009, ‘Picturing word and text in the late Medieval Parish church’ in L. Clark, M Jurkowski and C Richmond (eds), Image, text and church 1380-1600. Essays for Margaret Aston (Papers in Medieval Studies 20) (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies), pp. 162-199

Concerns medieval parchment tabulae mounted on boards in churches and especially those with prayers and other religious texts. Some of these tables were attached to monuments with information about those commemorated. Display texts in other media in churches are also addressed.

D P Mortlock, 2009, The Guide to Suffolk Churches, with an encyclopaedic glossary; The Lutterworth Press: Cambridge. 392 pp, b/w photos & illus. ISBN-13: 9780718830762. Pbk £30)

Revised and enlarged edn of several vols previously published separately. A similar omnibus volume for Norfolk was published in 2007.

Eileen M. Murphy, 2008, Deviant burial in the archaeological record (Studies in Funerary Archaeology 2) (Oxbow Books: Oxford. 244 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1-84217-338-1; ISBN-10: 1-84217-338-3. Pbk £30.00)

C[ameron] B Newham, 2009 Some Old Devon Churches, Vol. I [Abbots Bickington to Butterleigh], Vol. II [Cadeleigh to Dunsford] (DAE Publishing: [place unknown], vol. I, 168 pages, 300 colour illus. ISBN 978-1-906265-01-4; vol. II, 160 pages, 270 colour illus. ISBN 978-1-906265-02-1. Both vols Hbk. £60 each.

Republishes the text of an early 20th-century series of books by the Devon antiquary and photographer John Staab along side new colour photographs, which include many pictures of monuments (information from the author).

Scott L Newstok, 2008, Quoting Death in Early Modern England The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb, Series: Early Modern Literature in History, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 244 pp. ISBN 9780230203259. Hbk. £50

(from the publisher’s web site) An innovative study of the emergent Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. Quoting Death argues that the post-Reformation preoccupation with textual remembrance led to a remarkable proliferation of epitaphic gestures beyond the putative gravestone. You can read more at: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=290604

Jerry O'Sullivan, 2009, ‘A Killeen Burial Ground in St Laurencesfields and the Lepers of Loughrea’ Archaeology Ireland, 23.3, Autumn, pp. 18-20)

Concerns the excavation of a killeen and its possible association with a medieval leper hospital.

Nigel Saul, 2009, ‘The cuckoo in the nest. A Dallingridge tomb in the FitzAlan chapel at Arundel’, Sussex Archaeological Collections, 147, pp. 125-33

Concerns on an atypical indenture to acquire a tomb chest second-hand.

Jane Schlueter, 2009, ‘Thee early seventeenth-century watercolours of the tombs of Henry VII and Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey’, Burlington Magazine, 151, no. 1281, December, pp. 819-820

The three paintings, all of 1618, are contained in the album amicorum of Jakob Fetzer, in the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Col. Guelf.235 Blank, fols 26 (Elizableth I), 24 & 162 (Henry VII).

Monica E Simon, 2009, ‘Who is buried in the tomb in St Kenelm’s Church, Minster Lovell Church?’ The Ricardian, 19: pp. 84-94

Mark Stocker, 2009, ‘Love, sympathy and tenderness’: [Sir] Bertram Mackennal’s monument to Lord and Lady Curzon, Burlington Magazine, 151, no. 1280, November, pp. 755-762

The monument, in the north aisle of Keddleston Church (Derbyshire), commemorates Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary (d. 1925), and his first wife, Mary (d. 1906).

George Thomson, 2009, Inscribed in remembrance: gravemarker lettering: form, function and recording (Wordwell Books: Leopardstown, Dublin. 180pp, 160 images. ISBN 978-1 905569-35-9. Pbk. €25)

This book will be reviewed in Church Monuments.

Eleanor Townsend, 2009, Death and Art: Europe 1200-1530, V & A Publishing: London. 96 pp., 60 col. illus. ISBN-13: 978-1851775835; ISBN-10: 1851775838. Hbk. £14.99

Contains a chapter on tombs and memorials.

Pamela Tudor-Craig, 2009, ‘Effigies with attitude’, in J. Cherry and Ann Payne (eds), Signs and Symbols, (Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 18. xvi + 224 pp, c. 100 b/w Pls. ISBN 978190028996. Hbk. £49.50): pp. 133-142.

Erica Utsi, 2006, ‘Improving definition: GPR investigations at Westminster Abbey’, J. Daniels & C.C. Chen (eds), Proceedings of GPR 2006, the 11th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (Ohio State University: Columba. ISBN not known. published on CD. Price not known).

(Edited from the published abstract) Describes the high definition results obtained by using ground penetrating radar to investigate the thirteenth-century Cosmati pavement in Westminster Abbey. Subsurface features include two graves for which the radar has revealed differences in construction and content. Comparison of the time slices and the 2-dimensional output indicates the presence of grave goods and other remains. Computer modelling is applied to test some of the findings.

Angela Vanhaelen , 2008, ‘Recomposing the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century Delft’
Oxford Art Journal, vol. 31, no. 3, October, pp. 361-381

(extracted from author’s abstract in the British Humanities Index) This paper examines how the notion of a body politic changes dramatically in the course of the seventeenth century by focusing on an important and much-painted political monument in Delft's Nieuwe Kerk: the sepulchre of the first Dutch stadholder William of Orange, military leader of the Dutch Revolt.

Adam White, 2009, ‘Love, Loyalty and Friendship; Education, Dyasty and Service. Lady Anne Clifford’s Church Monuments’, in Karen Hearn and Lynn Hulse (eds), Lady Anne Clifford: Culture, Patronage and Gender in 17^th-century Britain (Yorkshire Archaeological Society Occasional Paper no. 7), pp. 43-71

A detailed survey and analysis of Lady Anne’s very long career as a patron of church monuments, fully illustrated. The book can be obtained from the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Claremont, 23 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9NZ, price £20.00, plus £3.00 p & p.

Simon Watney, 2009, ‘Recording the Past: the Origins and Aims of The Church Monuments Society’, in Megan Aldrich and Robert J. Wallis (eds), Antiquaries and archaists: the past in the past, the past in the present (Spire Books: Reading. 170 pp, 42 illus., ISBN 978 1 904965 23 7. Pbk £19.95): pp. 87-103

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