medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]>
> Retrospective tombs of bishops and abbots became quite common in the 13th
century.
then the ones in the abbey of St. Mary of Josaphat at Leves, the necropolis of
the 12th c. bishops of Chartres, was an early example.
>There is an excellent example of that in the cloister of Wells Cathedral,
where in the early 13th century, a whole series of retrospective bishops'
tombs were commissioned, and the bishops' effigies were even dressed in
out-of-date Saxon-style vestments.
that sounds pretty unusual.
>The Gaignieres drawings from the late 17th century contain several such
series of 13th-century retrospective tomb series. Louis IX also commissioned
a whole bunch of retrospective royal tombs in the abbey church of Saint-Denis
in the mid-13th century. In my masters thesis, I referred to such series as
"cartularies in stone".
> They may not have had quite the same effect as a phony charter, but the
intention was similar.
what is unusual --literally extraordinary, i'd now prefer to say-- is this
notion of dressing the effigies in costumes which were contemporary with the
lives of the fellows they are representing.
i can't think of another example of this.
c
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