Title & Author:

Memory and the medieval tomb / edited by Elizabeth Valdez del Alamo, with Carol Stamatis Pendergast.

Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2000.

Description:

xv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Souvenir, synaesthesia, and the sepulcrum Domini: sensory stimuli as memory stratagems / Stephen Lamia -- Lament for a lost queen: the sarcophagus of Doña Blanca in Nájera / Elizabeth Valdez del Alamo -- The tomb as prompter for the chantry: four examples from late medieval England / Anne McGee Morganstern -- Activating the effigy: Donatello's Pecci tomb in Siena cathedral / Geraldine A. Johnson -- Commemorating a real bastard: the chapel of Alvaro de Luna / Patrick Lenaghan -- The font is a kind of grave: remembrance in the Via Latina catacombs / Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk -- Memory and the social landscape in eleventh-century Upplandic commemorative practice / Kyle R. Crocker -- Stolen property: St. Mark's first Venetian tomb and the politics of communal memory / Thomas E.A. Dale -- Dream images, memoria, and the Heribert shrine / Carolyn M. Carty -- The queen's body and institutional memory: the tomb of Adelaide of Maurienne / Kathleen Nolan -- Monumenta et memoriae: the thirteenth-century episcopal pantheon of Léon Cathedral / Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras.

Summary:

"This volume 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. The essayists analyze strategies for commemoration from the fourth to the fifteenth century, focusing on the means by which human memory could be activated or manipulated through the interaction between monuments, their setting, and the visitor."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0754600769 (alk. paper)
9780754600763 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Sepulchral monuments.
Recollection (Psychology)
Christian art and symbolism.
Civilization, Medieval.
Rappel (Psychologie)
Civilisation médiévale.
Erinnerung
Grabmal
Ikonographie
Gedenken
Graftomben.
Christelijke kunst.
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Valdez del Alamo, Elizabeth.
Pendergast, Carol Stamatis.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214286
Call No.: NB1803.E9 M4 2000
Status: Available