Stone Fidelity

Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture

Jessica Barker (Royalty Account)

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The Boydell Press
17 April 2020

History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; Sculpture; Medieval history

Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture

"Pioneering investigation of the popular ""double tomb"" effigies in the Middle Ages. 2022 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period before 1600 2021 International Center of Medieval Art Annual Book Prize Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side, and hand in hand, immortalised in elegantly carved stone: what Philip Larkin's poem An Arundel Tomb later described as their ""stone fidelity"".

This first full account of the ""double tomb"" places its rich tradition into dialogue with powerful discourses of gender, marriage, politics and emotion during the Middle Ages. As well as offering new interpretations of some of the most famous medieval tombs, such as those found in Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral, it draws attention to a host of lesser-known memorials from throughout Europe, providing an innovative vantage point from which to reconsider the material culture of medieval marriage. Setting these twin effigies alongside wedding rings and dresses as the agents of matrimonial ritual and embodied symbolism, the author presents the ""double tomb"" as far more than mere romantic sentiment. Rather, it reveals the careful artifice beneath their seductive emotional surfaces: the artistic, religious, political and legal agendas underlying the medieval

rhetoric of married love. Published with the generous financial assistance of the Henry Moore Foundation."

By: Jessica Barker (Royalty Account)
Imprint: The Boydell Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v. 19
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781783272716
ISBN 10: 1783272716
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Pages: 354
Publication Date: 17 April 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr JESSICA BARKER is a Lecturer in Medieval Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

Reviews for Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture

[This] attractively-produced and well-illustrated volume is thoroughly researched. * ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY * [A] magnificent and original study. -- Christopher Howse * DAILY TELEGRAPH * [This book] leads the way in the current movement urging the reappraisal of pre-Reformation monuments by what is regarded as a holistic art-historical contextualisation. . . . It is certainly essential reading for all interested in medieval church monuments. * Peregrinations *