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Interpreting Medieval Effigies - The Evidence from Yorkshire to 1400 (Paperback)
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Interpreting Medieval Effigies - The Evidence from Yorkshire to 1400 (Paperback)
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This innovative study examines and analyses the wealth of evidence
provided by the monumental effigies of Yorkshire, from the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, including some of very high
sculptural merit. More than 200 examples survive from the historic
county in varying states of preservation. Together, they present a
picture of the people able to afford them, at a time when the
county was frequently at the forefront of national politics and
administration, during the Scottish wars. Many monuments display
remarkable realism, depicting people as they themselves wished to
be remembered, and are accompanied by a great volume of
contemporary sculptural and architectural detail. Stylistic
analysis of the effigies themselves has been employed, better to
understand how they relate to one another and give a firmer basis
for their dating and production patterns. They are considered in
relation to the history and material culture of the area at the
time they were produced. A more soundly based appreciation of the
sculptor's intentions and the aspirations of patrons is sought
through close attention to the full extent of the visible evidence
afforded by the monuments and their surroundings. The corpus is of
sufficient size to permit meaningful analysis to shed light on
aspects such as personal aspiration, social networks, patterns of
supply and production, piety and wealth. It demonstrates the value
of funerary monuments to the wider understanding of medieval
society. The text will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue,
making available a substantial body of research for the first time.
The study considers the relationship between the monuments and
related sculpture, architecture, painting, glass etc, together with
contemporary documentary evidence, where it is available. This
material and the underlying methodology are now available to
illuminate monuments of the medieval period across the whole
country. Its methods and messages extend understanding of all
monuments, broadening its potential audience from the purely local
to everyone concerned with medieval sculpture and church
archaeology.
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