IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1703: Mourning and Remembrance, III: Constructing a Memorial
Thursday 7 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Lena Wahlgren-Smith, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Christian Steer, Department of History, University of York |
| Paper 1703-a | Carbunculus ignitus lilie: Family Memory in Medieval Song (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Hagiography, Lay Piety, Music |
| Paper 1703-b | From the Written Word to Rituals: Arthur's Grave as a Case Study, 12th-13th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1703-c | Late Medieval Verse Epitaphs: A Marked Choice (Language: English) Index terms: Epigraphy, Language and Literature - Latin, Lay Piety |
| Abstract | This session looks at memorials in different genres. The first paper analyses the partly-preserved motet Carbunculus ignitus lilie, composed in the honour of St Thomas Becket. It argues that it represents an attempt to reinterpret the saint as a Lancastrian patron within the context of Canterbury as a 'Lancastrian mausoleum', that it was likely composed by Henry V and intended as a requiem for his father. The second paper explores the transition of King Arthur from a literary figure to a character connected to the present through the physical reality of his supposed tomb at Glastonbury. The final paper discusses 15th-century verse epitaphs in parish churches as a marked choice. |