1st Edition
Memory and Medieval Tomb
336 Pages
by
Routledge
This book explores the ways in which medieval Christians sought to memorialize the deceased: with tombs, cenotaphs, altars and other furnishings connected to a real or symbolic burial site.
Reverent memorial for the dead was the inspiration for the production of a significant category of artworks during the Middle Ages - artworks aimed as much at the laity as at the clergy, and intended to... Read more
Part I: Memory and images 1. Images and the Work of Memory: The Sixth-Century Mosaics of Ravenna, Italy / Jean-Claude Schmitt (translated from the French by Marie-Pierre Gelin) 2. "Images Gross and Sensible": Violence, Memory and Art in the Thirteenth Century / Martha Easton 3. Beyond the Two Doors of Memory: Intertextualities and Intervisualities in Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts of the Roman de Troie and the Histoire Ancienne / Rosa Mariìa Rodriìguez Porto Part II: Commemoration and oblivion 4. The Making of the Carolingian Libri Memoriales : Exploring or Constructing the Past? / Eva-Maria Butz and Alfons Zettler 5. Status and the Soul: Commemoration and Intercession in the Rayonnant Chapels of Northern France in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries / Mailan S. Doquang 6. Ritual Excommunication: An "Ars Oblivionalis"? / Christian Jaser Part III. Memory, Reading and Performance 7. The Speculum Maius, Between Thesaurus and Lieu de Meìmoire / Mary Franklin-Brown 8. The Memory of Roman Law in an Illuminated Manuscript of Justinian's Digest / Joanna Fronska 9. "Quant j'eus tout recordeì par ordre" : Memory and Performance on Display in the Manuscripts of Guillaume de Machaut's Voir Dit and Remede de Fortune / Kate Maxwell 10. Acrostics as Copyright Protection in the Franco-Italian Epic: Implications for Memory Theory / John F. Levy Part IV: Royal and Aristocratic Memory and Commemoration 11. Changes of Aristocratic Identity: Remarriage and Remembrance in Europe 900-1200 / Elisabeth van Houts 12. Longchamp and Lourcine : The Role of Female Abbeys in the Construction of Capetian Memory (Late Thirteenth Century to Mid-Fourteenth Century) / Anne-HeìleÌne Allirot (translated from the French by Lewis Beer) 13. Louis IX and Liturgical Memory / M. Cecilia Gaposchkin Part V. Remembering Medieval France 14. Pierre Loti's "Memories" of the Middle Ages : Feasting on the Gothic in 1888 / Elizabeth Emery 15. Celebrating the Medieval Past in Modern Cluny : How Popular Events Helped Shape Collective Memory for a Small French Town / Janet T. Marquardt 16. "A Mere Patch of Color" : Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Shattered Glass of Reims Cathedral / Shirin Fozi.
Biography
Valdez Del Alamo, Elizabeth; Stamatis Pendergast, Carol
