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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.
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Derek Keene,
Arthur Burns and Andrew Saint, 2004, St Paul’s: the Cathedral Chruch 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.
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.
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)
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.
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