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Stone Fidelity
Jessica Barker
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Beschreibung
Pioneering investigation of the popular "double tomb" effigies in the Middle Ages.
Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side, and hand in hand, immortalised in elegantly carved stone: what Phiilip Larkin's poem
An Arundel Tomb later described as their "stone fidelity".
This first full account of the "double tomb" places its rich tradition into dialogue with powerful discourses of gender, marriage, politics and emotion during the Middle Ages. As well as offering new interpretations of some of the most famous medieval tombs, such as those found in Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral, it draws attention to a host of lesser-known memorials from throughout Europe, providing an innovative vantage point from which to reconsider the material culture of medieval marriage. Setting these twin effigies alongside wedding rings and dresses as the agents of matrimonial ritual and embodied symbolism, the author presents the "double tomb" as far more than mere romantic sentiment. Rather, it reveals the careful artifice beneath their seductive emotional surfaces: the artistic, religious, political and legal agendas underlying the medieval rhetoric of married love.
Dr JESSICA BARKER is a Lecturer in Medieval Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Published with the generous financial assistance of the Henry Moore Foundation.
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Canterbury Cathedral, Portugal, church interiors, João I, King of Portugal, Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal, Richard II, commemorating the dead, tomb decoration, Westminster Abbey, Margaret Holland, duchess of Clarence, stone effigies, Anne of Bohemia, monastery of Batalha, England, Alice Chaucer, funeral effigies, momento mori, the body, gender, John of Gaunt, ecclesiastical material culture