Interpreting Medieval Effigies: The evidence from Yorkshire to 1400
By Brian Gittos and Moira Gittos
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Many monuments display remarkable realism, depicting people as they themselves wished to be remembered, and are accompanied by a great volume of contemporary sculptural and architectural detail. Stylistic analysis of the effigies themselves has been employed, better to understand how they relate to one another and give a firmer basis for their dating and production patterns. They are considered in relation to the history and material culture of the area at the time they were produced. A more soundly based appreciation of the sculptor's intentions and the aspirations of patrons is sought through close attention to the full extent of the visible evidence afforded by the monuments and their surroundings.
The corpus is of sufficient size to permit meaningful analysis to shed light on aspects such as personal aspiration, social networks, patterns of supply and production, piety and wealth. It demonstrates the value of funerary monuments to the wider understanding of medieval society.
The text will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue, making available a substantial body of research for the first time. The study considers the relationship between the monuments and related sculpture, architecture, painting, glass etc, together with contemporary documentary evidence, where it is available. This material and the underlying methodology are now available to illuminate monuments of the medieval period across the whole country. Its methods and messages extend understanding of all monuments, broadening its potential audience from the purely local to everyone concerned with medieval sculpture and church archaeology.
Brian Gittos
Brian and Moira Gittos, whilst pursuing different careers have been actively involved in archaeology for forty years, always working together. Since retirement, they have worked full time on their archaeological research projects. These are all centred on aspects of church archaeology and medieval monuments in particular. Both are founder members of the Church Monuments Society and between 2012 and 2015 were Associates of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. In 1999 they were elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Through their involvement with a major conservation project on the monuments and the Athelhampton Chapel at Puddletown, they were joint recipients of the Dorset Archaeological Award for 2013.
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