List of illustrations -- Sources for illustrations -- Abbreviated references -- Antiquaries and historians : the study of monuments -- Commemoration in early medieval England -- The market : fashion, geography, and clientele -- The production of monuments -- Choosing a monument -- Function and meaning -- Composition and design -- The monuments of ecclesiastics -- Military effigies -- The monuments of civilians -- The monuments of lawyers -- The monuments of women -- The cult of the macabre -- Inscriptions -- Prospect and retrospect -- Appendix : a list of sculpted effigial monuments of civilians in England to c. 1500 -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
This is a comprehensive survey of English medieval church monuments. It examines all types of monument-cross slabs, brasses, incised slabs, and sculpted effigies. It analyzes them in an historical context to show what they reveal of the self image and religious aspirations of those they commemorate
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-398) and index
