Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe / Anne Leader.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leader, Anne, editor.

Series:

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sepulchral monuments--Europe--History.

Sepulchral monuments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Offering a broad overview of memorialization practices across Europe and the Mediterranean, this book examines local customs through particular case studies. These essays explore complementary themes through the lens of commemorative art, including social status; personal and corporate identities; the intersections of mercantile, intellectual, and religious attitudes; upward (and downward) mobility; and the cross-cultural exchange.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

Introduction / Leader, Anne

Chapter One. Recycling for Eternity Th e Reuse of Ancient Sarcophagi by Pisan Merchants, 1200-1400 / Mathews, Karen Rose

Chapter Two. Nuremberg Merchants in Breslau (1440-1520) Commemoration as Assimilation / Patała, Agnieszka

Chapter Three. The Sepulchralization of Renaissance Florence / Leader, Anne

Chapter Four. "Under the tombe that I have there prepared" Monuments for the Tailors and Merchant Tailors of Medieval London / Steer, Christian

Chapter Five. Tombs and the imago doctoris in cathedra in Northern Italy, ca. 1300-1364 / Wolff, Ruth

Chapter Six. "Middle-Class" Men Who Would Be Nobles in Fifteenth-Century Castile, Flanders, and Burgundy / Adams, Ann / Jennings, Nicola

Chapter Seven. Remembering the Dead, Planning for the Afterlife in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany The Case of Cione di Ravi / Cardarelli, Sandra

Appendix. Testament of Cione di Ravi, Notarile Antecosimiano, 556, Filza F, 29 Giugno 1478

Chapter Eight. Noble Aspirations Social Mobility and Commemoration in Two Seventeenth- Century Venetian Funerary Monuments / Crosbie, Meredith

Chapter Nine. Commemoration through Food Obits Celebrated by the Franciscan Nuns of Late Medieval Strasbourg / Stanford, Charlotte A.

Chapter Ten. The Panel Painting as a Choice for Family Commemoration The Case of Fifteenth-Century Patrons on Cyprus / McNulty, Barbara

Chapter Eleven. The Knight and the Merchant Familial Commemorative Strategy in the Wake of the Flemish Revolts ca. 1482-1492 / Peel, Harriette

Appendix. Lodewijk's memorial requests

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9783110625424

3110625423

9781580443463

158044346X

OCLC:

1049577067