Main entry:

Sherlock, Peter.

Title & Author:

Monuments and memory in early modern England / Peter Sherlock.

Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.

Description:

xiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index.
Family fictions -- Monumental bodies -- Life and death -- Reformation -- Renaissance -- Law and order -- Word and image -- Memory.

Summary:

"This book is a study of the material culture of memory in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. By interpreting the images and inscriptions on monuments to the dead, it explores how early modern people wanted to be remembered - their social vision, cultural ideals, religious beliefs and political values." "Arguing that early modern English monuments were not simply formulaic statements about death and memory, Dr Sherlock instead reveals them to be deliberately crafted messages to future generations. Through careful reading of monuments he shows that much can be learned about how men and women conceived of the world around them and shifting concepts of gender, social order and the place of humans within the universe. In post-Reformation England, the dead became superior to the living, as monuments trumpeted their fame and their confidence in the resurrection." "This study aims to stimulate historians to attempt to reconstruct and engage with the world view of past generations through the unique and under-utilised medium of funeral monuments. In so doing it is hoped that more light may be shed on how memory was created, controlled and contested in pre-modern society, and encourage the on going debate about the ways in which understandings of the past shape the present and Future."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780754660934 (alk. paper)
0754660931 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Sepulchral monuments England History 16th century.
Sepulchral monuments England History 17th century.
Christian art and symbolism England Modern period, 1500-
Christian art and symbolism Modern period.
Sepulchral monuments.
Grabinschrift
Grabmal
Sepulchral monuments Great Britain History 16th century.
Sepulchral monuments Great Britain History 17th century.
Christian art and symbolism Great Britain Modern period, 1500-.
England.
1500-1699

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259665
Call No.: BIB 190582
Status: Available