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Of Armor and Men in Medieval England - The Chivalric Rhetoric of Three English Knights' Effigies (Paperback)
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Of Armor and Men in Medieval England - The Chivalric Rhetoric of Three English Knights' Effigies (Paperback)
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Despite the profusion of knightly effigies created between c. 1240
and c. 1330 for tombs throughout the British Isles, these
commemorative figures are relatively unknown to art historians and
medievalists. Until now, their rich visual impact and significance
has been relatively unexplored by scholars. In this study, Rachel
Dressler examines this category of sculpture, illustrating how
English military figures employ a visual language of pose, costume,
and attributes to construct a masculine ideal that privileges
fighting prowess, elite status, and sexual virility. Like military
figures on the Continent, English effigies represent knights
wearing chain mail and surcoats, and bearing shields and swords;
unique to the British examples, however, is the display of an
aggressive sword handling pose and dynamically crossed legs.
Outwardly hyper masculine, the carved figures partake in artistic
subterfuge: the lives of those memorialized did not always match
proffered images, testifying to the changing function of the knight
in England during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
This study traces the development of English military figures, and
analyzes in detail three fourteenth-century examples-those
commemorating Robert I De Vere in Hatfield Broad Oak (Essex),
Richard Gyvernay at Limington (Somerset), and Henry Allard in
Winchelsea (Sussex). Similar in appearance, these three sculptures
represent persons of distinctly different social levels: De Vere
belonged to the highest aristocratic rank, where Gyvernay was a
lesser county knight, and Allard was from a merchant family,
raising questions about his knightly standing. Ultimately,
Dressler's analysis of English knight effigies demonstrates that
the masculine warrior during the late Middle Ages was frequently a
constructed ideal rather than a lived experience.
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