IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 225: Medieval Commemoration, II: Tomb Monuments, Identity, and Memoria
Monday 11 July 2011, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | MeMO - Medieval Memoria Online Project & Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht |
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| Organisers: | Kim Ragetli, MeMO - Medieval Memoria Online Project, Universiteit Utrecht Rolf de Weijert, Medieval Memoria Online, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Moderator/Chair: | Julian Gardner, Department of the History of Art, University of Warwick |
| Paper 225-a | Women and Death in Medieval Portugal: The Idiosyncrasy of the Female Presence in 14th-Century Portuguese Funerary Monuments (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Gender Studies, Lay Piety, Women's Studies |
| Paper 225-b | 'A coler of the kynge lyverey': Depictions of the Livery Collar on Church Monuments to the Derbyshire Gentry, 1465 to 1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Genealogy and Prosopography, Local History, Political Thought |
| Paper 225-c | 'Ye folke that loken vpon this purtrature …': Self-Image and Portraiture on Medieval Monuments (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Local History, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | Some of the most significant testimonies to female self-representation can be found in funerary monuments. In the first paper these are analysed with the purpose of revealing particular features of women's effigies in Portugal, while focussing on the specific model of ideal Christian conduct for women that they bear witness to. The second paper addresses the motivations behind depicting a livery collar on a memorial, investigating a variety of explanatory factors, some specific to the Derbyshire context: representation of political allegiance, geographical proximity, affiliation to the duchy of Lancaster's Tutbury honor, and, not least, kinship ties. Self-image and portraiture on medieval monuments are central to the third paper, wherein attention is paid to the portrait aspects of effigies predating the late-14th century and cadaver effigies. Self-image and portraiture on medieval monuments are central to the third paper, in which attention is paid to portrait aspects of tomb effigies and the negation of the self in cadaver effigies. |