'Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe' comprises eleven chapters by twelve art historians. Together, these essays investigate commemorative practices in Cyprus, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. Offering a broad overview of memorialization across Europe and the Mediterranean, each chapter examines local customs through particular case studies. The essays explore complementary themes through the lens of commemorative art, including social status; personal and corporate identities; the intersections of mercantile, intellectual, and religious attitudes; upward (and downward) mobility; and the cross-cultural exchange of memorialization strategies.
Author(s): Anne Leader (ed.)
Series: Medieval Institute Publications. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 60
Publisher: Western Michigan University
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 362
City: Kalamazoo
Acknowledgments vii
List of Illustrations ix
Introduction / Anne Leader 1
Recycling for Eternity: The Reuse of Ancient Sarcophagi by Pisan Merchants, 1200–1400 / Karen Rose Mathews 25
Nuremberg Merchants in Breslau (1440–1520): Commemoration as Assimilation / Agnieszka Patała 49
The Sepulchralization of Renaissance Florence / Anne Leader 75
“Under the tombe that I have there prepared”: Monuments for the Tailors and Merchant Tailors of Medieval London / Christian Steer 107
Tombs and the "imago doctoris" in 'cathedra' in Northern Italy, ca. 1300–1364 / Ruth Wolff 129
“Middle-Class” Men Who Would Be Nobles in Fifteenth-Century Castile, Flanders, and Burgundy / Ann Adams and Nicola Jennings 157
Remembering the Dead, Planning the Afterlife in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany: The Case of Cione di Ravi / Sandra Cardarelli 187
Appendix: Testament of Cione di Ravi 206
Noble Aspirations: Social Mobility and Commemoration in Two Seventeenth-Century Venetian Funerary Monuments / Meredith Crosbie 237
Commemoration through Food: Obits Celebrated by the Franciscan Nuns of Late Medieval Strasbourg / Charlotte A. Stanford 255
The Panel Painting as a Choice for Family Commemoration: The Case of Fifteenth-Century Patrons on Cyprus / Barbara McNulty 271
The Knight and the Merchant: Familial Commemorative Strategy in the Wake of the Flemish Revolts ca. 1482–1492 / Harriette Peel 297
Appendix: Lodewijk’s memorial requests 315
Notes on Contributors 327
