Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture

Frontcover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	An Arundel Tomb
	Medieval Marriage
	Emotion and the “Expressivity” of Gothic Art
1 The Double Tomb: Marriage, Symbol and Society
	The Emergence of the Double Tomb
	Burial, Monument and the Time of Death
	Memorialising Marriage and the Image of the Bride
	Queer Tombs
	Symbols and Society
2 Love’s Rhetorical Power: The Royal Tomb
	Corpse and Effigy
	The King’s Two Bodies
	Richard II and Anne of Bohemia
	João I and Philippa of Lancaster
	Love, Beyond Two Bodies
3 Gender, Agency and the Much-Married Woman
	The Concept of Bigamy
	Funerary Schemes of Much-Married Women
	The Holland Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral
	Remarriage, Reburial and Resurrection
	With or Without Men
4 Holding Hands: Gesture, Sign, Sacrament
	Gesture as “Figure”
	A Sacramental Sign
	Production and Patronage
	The Legal Dimension
	Ritual as Image
	Situation and Spectatorship
	What Will Survive of Us Is Love?
Epilogue
	Artifice and Emotion
	Gender and Convention
	Bodily Metaphors
Gazetteer of Hand-Joining Monuments
Bibliography
Index of Names and Places
Thematic Index