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An examination of how academic colleges commemorated their patrons
in a rich variety of ways. WINNER of a 2019 Cambridgeshire
Association for Local History award. The people of medieval
Cambridge chose to be remembered after their deaths in a variety of
ways - through prayers, Masses and charitable acts, and bytomb
monuments, liturgical furnishings and other gifts. The colleges of
the university, alongside their educational role, arranged
commemorative services for their founders, fellows and benefactors.
Together with the town's parishchurches and religious houses, the
colleges provided intercessory services and resting places for the
dead. This collection explores how the myriad of commemorative
enterprises complemented and competed as locations where the living
and the dead from "town and gown" could meet. Contributors analyse
the commemorative practices of the Franciscan friars, the colleges
of Corpus Christi, Trinity Hall and King's, and within Lady
Margaret Beaufort's Cambridge household; the depictions of academic
and legal dress on memorial brasses, and the use and survival of
these brasses. The volume highlights, for the first time, the role
of the medieval university colleges within the family
ofcommemorative institutions; in offering a new and broader view of
commemoration across an urban environment, it also provides a rich
case-study for scholars of the medieval Church, town, and
university. JOHN S. LEE is Research Associate at the Centre for
Medieval Studies, University of York; CHRISTIAN STEER is Honorary
Visiting Fellow in the Department of History, University of York.
Contributors: Sir John Baker, Richard Barber, Claire GobbiDaunton,
Peter Murray Jones, Elizabeth A. New, Susan Powell, Michael Robson,
Nicholas Rogers.
Finalist: George Washington Prize George Washington was an affluent
slave owner who believed that republicanism and social hierarchy
were vital to the young country's survival. And yet, he remains
largely free of the "elitist" label affixed to his contemporaries,
as Washington evolved in public memory during the nineteenth
century into a man of the common people, the father of democracy.
This memory, we learn in The Property of the Nation, was a
deliberately constructed image, shaped and reshaped over time,
generally in service of one cause or another. Matthew R. Costello
traces this process through the story of Washington's tomb, whose
history and popularity reflect the building of a memory of
America's first president-of, by, and for the American people.
Washington's resting place at his beloved Mount Vernon estate was
at times as contested as his iconic image; and in Costello's
telling, the many attempts to move the first president's bodily
remains offer greater insight to the issue of memory and hero
worship in early America. While describing the efforts of
politicians, business owners, artists, and storytellers to define,
influence, and profit from the memory of Washington at Mount
Vernon, this book's main focus is the memory-making process that
took place among American citizens. As public access to the tomb
increased over time, more and more ordinary Americans were drawn to
Mount Vernon, and their participation in this nationalistic ritual
helped further democratize Washington in the popular imagination.
Shifting our attention from official days of commemoration and
publicly orchestrated events to spontaneous visits by citizens,
Costello's book clearly demonstrates in compelling detail how the
memory of George Washington slowly but surely became The Property
of the Nation.
Go behind the scenes of generations of the British royal family,
exploring both the glamour and domestic life inside the spectacular
300-year-old Kensington Palace Kensington Palace is renowned for
its architecture, splendid interiors, internationally important
collections, and, of course, its royal residents. This lavish book
thoroughly explores Kensington's physical beauty and its history,
presenting new material drawn from archives, newspapers, personal
letters, images, and careful analysis of the building itself.
Originally a fashionable Jacobean villa, Kensington was
dramatically rebuilt in 1689 by Christopher Wren for the newly
crowned monarchs, William III and Mary II. The palace became the
favored London home of five sovereigns, yet also survived fires,
partial collapse, bombings, and periods of neglect. Queen Victoria
recognized the national significance of her birthplace and
childhood home, turning the palace into her own memorial as well as
a home for members of her extended family and their descendants.
With over 450 illustrations, including specially commissioned
reconstructions and historic plans, this volume explores the
personal tastes and fashions of the British monarchy over the
course of 300 years and provides insight into the 20th- and
21st-century royal family's domestic life. Published in association
with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
This is the first English translation of Francesco Sansovino's
(1521-1586) celebrated guide to Venice, which was first published
in 1561. One of the earliest books to describe the monuments of
Venice for inquisitive travelers, Sansovino's guide was written at
a time when St. Mark's Piazza was in the process of taking the form
we see today. With in-depth descriptions of the buildings created
by the author's father, noted sculptor and architect Jacopo
Sansovino (1486-1570), including the Mint, Library, and Loggetta,
the volume presents a vivid portrait of Venice during a
particularly rich moment in the city's history. An engaging
introduction and scholarly annotations to the original text provide
the modern reader with an appreciation of the history of this great
city as well as a practical guide for seeking out and enjoying its
Renaissance treasures.
Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at
heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research in
Parks Canada records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost
always based on national and conventional messages that commonly
reflect colonialist visions of the past. Throughout western Canada
there are vivid examples of original and official views of what
constitutes a national narrative. Yet many of the places that
commemorate Indigenous, fur trade, and settler colonial histories
are contested spaces, places such as Batoche, Seven Oaks, and Upper
Fort Garry being the most obvious. At these heritage sites,
Indigenous perceptions of the past confront the conventions of
settler colonial history and denote the fluid cultural perspectives
that must define the shifting ground of heritage space. Robert
Coutts brings his many years of experience as a Parks Canada
historian to this detailed examination of heritage sites across the
prairies. He shows how the process of commemoration reflects social
and cultural perspectives that privilege a confident and
progressive national narrative. He also examines how class, gender,
and sexuality often remain apart from the heritage discourse. Most
notably, Authorized Heritage examines how governments became the
mediators of what is heritage and, just as significantly, what is
not.
Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at
heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research from
predominantly government records, it argues that heritage
narratives are almost always based on national messages that
commonly reflect colonial perceptions of the past. Yet many of the
places that commemorate Indigenous, fur trade, and settler
histories are contested spaces, places such as Batoche, Seven Oaks,
and Upper Fort Garry being the most obvious. At these heritage
sites, Indigenous views of history confront the conventions of
settler colonial pasts and represent the fluid cultural
perspectives that should define the shifting ground of heritage
space. Robert Coutts brings his many years of experience as a
public historian to this detailed examination of heritage sites
across the prairies. He shows how the process of commemoration
often reflects social and cultural perspectives that privilege a
conventional and conservative national narrative. He also examines
how class, gender, and sexuality often remain apart from the
heritage discourse. Most notably, Authorized Heritage examines how
governments became the mediators of what is heritage and, just as
significantly, what is not.
Catrin Huber (*1968) works with architectural, fictional and
imagined spaces as well as with site-responsive practices.
Fascinated by ancient Roman wall painting, she developed
site-specific installations in a topical dialogue with two Roman
houses at the world-heritage sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii. This
intricately designed book presents Huber's versatile spatial
interventions, discusses the complex relation between her
installations and their respective archaeological settings
(local/temporal), and re-evaluates the daring concept of a
historiographic turn within the arts. Text in English, German and
Italian.
"Taken together, this volume is a welcome departure from the usual
literature on memory and trauma which ignores what came before the
war and treats what happened after only in relation to the
Holocaust. This excellent volume enables us to look at the history
of death as a whole beyond the break of 1945 and to see influences
and continuities throughout the last century. The volume delivers
on the promise of the introduction to open up new avenues for
research and raise new questions and should be a welcome addition
to the library of every scholar of modern Germany." . German
Politics & Society " The volume] offers a significant
contribution to theories of death and memory work in German
Studies. It] is clearly organized using theme-based sections, which
lead the reader through material culture as well as psychological
investigation; the essays are well-researched and cogently
written." . German Studies Review "Taken together, the volume
provides more than the sum of its individual contributions and
actually succeeds in offering new perspectives on a hitherto
neglected topic. Several essays demonstrate persuasively the myriad
ways in which the ghosts of the dead haunted the living in
twentieth-century Germany...for anybody interested in the social
and cultural history of death in Germany, this volume will be an
indispensable starting point." . German History Recent years have
witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death.
Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject
in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in
20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special
place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how
German mourning changed over the 20th century in different
contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger
issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It
contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does
not begin and end with the Third Reich."
For the first time, the 92-metre frieze of the Voortrekker Monument
in Pretoria, one of the largest historical narratives in marble,
has been made the subject of a book. The pictorial narrative of the
Boer pioneers who conquered South Africa's interior during the
'Great Trek' (1835-52) represents a crucial period of South
Africa's past. Conceptualising the frieze both reflected on and
contributed to the country's socio-political debates in the 1930s
and 1940s when it was made. The book considers the active role the
Monument played in the rise of Afrikaner nationalism and the
development of apartheid, as well as its place in post-apartheid
heritage. The frieze is unique in that it provides rare evidence of
the complex processes followed in creating a major monument. Based
on unpublished documents, drawings and models, these processes are
unfolded step by step, from the earliest discussions of the purpose
and content of the frieze, through all the stages of its design, to
its shipping to post-war Italy to be copied into marble from Monte
Altissimo, up to its final installation in the Monument. The book
examines how visual representation transforms historical memory in
what it chooses to recount, and the forms in which it is depicted.
The second volume expands on the first, by investigating each of
the twenty-seven scenes of the frieze in depth, providing new
insights into not only the frieze, but also South Africa's history.
Francois van Schalkwyk of African Minds, co-publisher with De
Gruyter writes: From Memory to Marble is an open access monograph
in the true sense of the word. Both volumes of the digital version
of the book are available in full and free of charge from the date
of publication. This approach to publishing democratises access to
the latest scholarly publications across the globe. At the same
time, a book such as From Memory to Marble, with its unique and
exquisite photographs of the frieze as well as its wealth of
reproduced archival materials, demands reception of a more
traditional kind, that is, on the printed page. For this reason,
the book is likewise available in print as two separate volumes.
The printed and digital books should not be seen as separate
incarnations; each brings its own advantages, working together to
extend the reach and utility of From Memory to Marble to a range of
interested readers.
Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the
history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a
historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its
pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany,
predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This
collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the
20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how
death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural
self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in
20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third
Reich.
The San Francisco Civic Center tells the 150-year story of San
Francisco's city halls and Civic Center. The grandest collection of
monumental municipal buildings in the United States, the Civic
Center is one of the finest achievements of the American reformist
City Beautiful movement and a stunning manifestation of one of the
nation's most dynamic and creative cities.
Fragments of history: Rethinking the Ruthwell and Bewcastle
monuments is an innovative study of the two premier survivals of
pre-Viking Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. Both monuments are rich in
finely carved images and complex inscriptions. Though in some way
related, in this book, they have very different histories. This
ambitious study draws the reader in through a vivid exposition of
the problems left by earlier interpretations, shows him or her how
to understand the monuments as social products in relation to a
history of which our knowledge is so fragmentary, and concludes
with a deeply persuasive discussion of their underlying premises.
Orton, Wood and Lees bring their research in art history and
antiquarianism, history and archaeology, medieval literature,
philosophy and gender studies into a successful and coherent whole,
organised around certain key notions, such as place, history and
tradition, style, similarity and difference, time, textuality and
identity. Theoretically astute, rigorously researched, vivid and
readable, Fragments of history is a model of how interdisciplinary
research can be conducted, written and published. It will be
required reading in a number of disciplines, including art history,
Anglo-Saxon studies, medieval language and literature, history and
ecclesiastical history, antiquarianism and archaeology. -- .
From the sculptured peaks of Mount Rushmore to the Coloradan
prairie lands at Sand Creek to the idyllic islands of the Pacific,
the West's signature environments add a new dimension to the study
of memorials. In such diverse and often dramatic landscapes, how do
the natural and built environments shape our emotions? In Memorials
Matter, author Jennifer Ladino investigates the natural and
physical environments of seven diverse National Park Service (NPS)
sites in the American West and how they influence emotions about
historical conflict and national identity. Chapters center around
the region's diverse inhabitants (Mexican, Chinese, Japanese,
African, and Native Americans) and the variously traumatic
histories these groups endured-histories of oppression,
exploitation, incarceration, slavery, and genocide. Drawing on
material ecocritical theory, Ladino emphasizes the ideological and
political importance of memorials and how they evoke visceral
responses that are not always explicitly 'storied,' but
nevertheless matter in powerful ways. In this unique blend of
narrative scholarship and critical theory, Ladino demonstrates how
these memorial sites and their surrounding landscapes, combined
with written texts, generate emotion and shape our collective
memory of traumatic events. She urges us to consider our everyday
environments and to become attuned to features and feelings we
might have otherwise overlooked.
A Practical, Quantitative Approach to Conservation Methodology What
can be done about the harmful effects of industrial pollutants on
carbonate stone monuments, buildings, and sites? Here is an
important guide to this phenomenon of the twentieth century.
Written by two conservation technology experts with an intimate
knowledge of the restoration of major world monuments, Carbonate
Stone: Chemical Behavior, Durability, and Conservation covers:
* Properties of carbonate rocks affecting the weathering of
stone
* Weathering mechanisms in polluted and natural environments, plus
biodeterioration
* Mathematical modeling for reaction rates and durability
factors
* The use of porosimetry in determining rock durability
* Conservation methodologies from the real world
* The theory of neural networks and their application to correlate
large volumes of chemical and physical data
* Application of archaeology to geochronology
Shajar al-Durr-known as "Tree of Pearls"-began her remarkable
career as a child slave, given as property to the Ayyubid Sultan
Salih of Egypt. She became his favorite concubine, was manumitted,
became the sultan's wife, served as governing regent, and
ultimately rose to become the legitimately appointed sultan of
Egypt in 1250 after her husband's death. Shajar al-Durr used her
wealth and power to add a tomb to his urban madrasa; with this
innovation, madrasas and many other charitably endowed
architectural complexes became commemorative monuments, a practice
that remains widespread today. A highly unusual case of a Muslim
woman authorized to rule in her own name, her reign ended after
only three months when she was forced to share her governance with
an army general from the ranks of the Mamluks (elite slave
soldiers) and for political expediency to marry him. Despite the
fact that Shajar al-Durr's story ends tragically with her
assassination and hasty burial, her deeds in her lifetime offer a
stark alternative to the continued belief that women in the
medieval period were unseen, anonymous, and inconsequential in a
world that belonged to men. This biography-the first ever in
English-will place the rise and fall of the sultan-queen in the
wider context of the cultural and architectural development of
Cairo, the city that still holds one of the largest and most
important collections of Islamic monuments in the world. D.
Fairchild Ruggles also situates the queen's extraordinary
architectural patronage in relation to other women of her own time,
such as Aleppo's Ayyubid regent. Tree of Pearls concludes with a
lively discussion of what we can know about the material impact of
women of both high and lesser social rank in this period, and why
their impact matters in the writing of history.
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