Death, Art, and Memory in Medieval England The Cobham Family and Their Monuments, 1300-1500

Name: Death, Art, and Memory in Medieval England The Cobham Family and Their Monuments, 1300-1500
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ISBN: 9780198207467

ISBN-10: 0198207468

ISBN-13: 9780198207467

Edition: 2001

Authors: Nigel Saul

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In this innovative and compelling book Nigel Saul approaches the world of the medieval gentry through the monuments they left behind them. The Cobham family left the largest and most spectacular collection of brasses in Britain in their church at Cobham, and other magnificent brasses in Lingfield, and elsewhere. Medieval brasses have hitherto been studied chiefly from an antiquarian or technical perspective; Nigel Saul for the first time shows how they served as a link between the living and the dead. Commemoration was inseparable from the wider dynamics of society. Through the brasses and through family history he takes us to the heart of gentry aspirations and fears, successes and…

Book details

List price: $190.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/7/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.57" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English




Introduction: Problem and Method



The Cobhams: The Family and their Experience



Cobham Church and College



The Market for Brasses



The Brasses at Cobham



The Cobhams of Sterborough



The Brasses and Monuments at Lingfield



Brasses Elsewhere to the Cobhams



Conclusion: Lineage and Commemoration


Appendix


Genealogies


Bibliography


Index