Edited by Paul Cockerham and Christian Steer, 2025 (Yorkist History Trust in association with Shaun Tyas)
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Paul Cockerham
Introduction: Tomb Monuments in Medieval Europe
Johan Bollaert
The Materiality of Roman and Runic Alphabet Tombs in Medieval Norway
Iris Crouwers
From Europe to the Fjords: The Development of Sepulchral Monuments in West-Norwegian Churchyards (c.1030–1350)
Øystein Ekroll
Northern Ladies: The Incised Slabs of Aristocratic Ladies in Medieval Norway
Savvas Mavromatidis
Unveiling the Maternal: An Incised Slab of a Pregnant Woman in Late Medieval Cyprus
Estelle Ingrand-Varenne and Maria Aimé Villano
The Words of the Last Hour: Tombs and Epitaphs for Women in the Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus
Vincent Debiais
Verse and Prose, Formulary and Creation: The ‘Unexpected’ in Funerary Inscriptions on Medieval Slabs in France (1150–1350)
Xavier Barral i Altet
The 11th-Century Rise in Monumental Funerary Sculpture and the Beginnings of the Romanesque gisant in Europe
Vinni Lucherini
The Angevin Royal Tombs in Naples and their Kinship Discourses (1323–43)
Karen Blough
The Abbatial Effigies from Quedlinburg: Conceptualisation, Significance and Function
Robert Marcoux
The Beaumont Tombs and the Political Context of Thirteenth-Century Maine
Philip Muijtjens
Visibility and Exclusivity: The Tombs of Blanche (d.1243) and Jean of France (d.1248) in the Cistercian Abbey of Royaumont
Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras
The Dormant Kings: Aethtics, Politics and the Royal Tombs at Santiago de Compostela (1211–1374)
Luca Salvatelli and Gianpaolo Serone
Monumental Tombs and Sepulchral Memories in the Dominican, Franciscan and Augustinian Convents of Viterbo of the Thirteenth Century: A General Catalogue
Federica Cosenza and Lorenzo Curatella
The Pantheon in the Middle Ages: The Tomb Slabs of Santa Maria ad Martyres in Rome (c.1250–c.1500)
Christene d’Anca
The Brabantian Influence on Westminster Abbey: Henri III of Brabant’s Tomb, an Inspiration for Henry III and Edward I of England
Sarah S. Celentano
Selective Kinship at the Priory of Saint-Louis de Poissy: The Sculpted Family of Louis IX and the Heart Tomb of Philip IV
Stefania Botticchio Giorgi
Strategies of Visualisation: The Development of Microarchitecture on Canopie d Effigies of the Iberian Peninsula, c.1290–1493
Edward Impey
The Canopied Funerary Monument in England, 1290–1600
Index