Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781580443456
Subjects: Sepulchral monuments; Middle class, europe
Description: This study investigates commemorative practices in Cyprus, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. Offering a broad overview of memorialization practices across Europe and the Mediterranean, individual chapters examine local customs through particular case studies. These essays explore complementary themes through the lens of commemorative art, including social status; personal and corporate identities; the intersections of mercantile, intellectual, and religious attitudes; upward (and downward) mobility; and the cross-cultural exchange of memorialization strategies.--Publisher description.