London Renaissance Seminar: Tombs, Memorials and Monuments
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
No booking required
How did the tomb or funerary monument contribute to the literature and culture of the Renaissance? As John Weever (1631) writes, a ‘Monument is a thing erected, made, or written, for a memoriall of some remarkable action, fit to bee transferred to future posterities’. Exploring the broad understanding of the tomb this suggests, this LRS examines the way in which stone communicated through image and text.
Keynes Library (Room 114), Birkbeck College School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
13.00 Coffee
13.30-14.10 Eva Lauenstein (Birkbeck), ‘Within these tombes enclos’d’: Interring Renaissance Love in Mary Sidney Herbert’s Antonius
14.10-14.50 Chloe Porter (University of Sussex), TBC.
14.50-15.05 Discussion
15.05-15.30 Coffee
15.30-14.10 Patricia Phillippy (Kingston University) Amber Caskets: Shaping Remembrance in the Garden Tomb
Abstract:Whether situated in churches or circulating in more flexible, mobile works—manuscript and printed texts, needlework, jewels and rosaries, personal bequests, or antique “rarities”—monuments were ubiquitous in post-Reformation England. This paper begins with the story of a recovered object, tracing its transmission from the classical past to the post-Reformation to argue that in this period of religious change, the unsettled meanings of sacred sites and recovered objects encouraged a new conception of remembrance and, with it, changed relationships between devotional and secular writings, arts, and identities. I end with a brief reading of the garden of Wales in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and the John Tradescants’ garden tomb in Lambeth.
16.10-16.50 Phillip Lindley (University of Leicester), Tudor Monuments at Framlingham, Suffolk: 3D scanning and analysis
16.50-17.05 Discussion
17.05-18.00 Discussion and Drinks
Contact name:
Sue Wiseman