Honour in life, death and in the memory: Funeral monuments in early modern England

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Volumn 6, Issue , 1996, Pages 179-200

  Llewellyn, Nigel ^a  

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EID: 60949827825     PISSN: 00804401     EISSN: 14740648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3679235     Document Type: Review

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1. Much of the material presented in this paper may be found in a more fully developed form in two books: Nigel Llewellyn, Signs of Life: Funeral Monuments in the Visual Culture of Post-Reformation England (Cambridge, in press)
2. and Nigel Llewellyn, The Art of Death: The Visual Culture of the English Death Ritual, c.1500-c.1800 (1991).
3. For memoria see Death in the Middle Ages, ed. H. Braet and W. Verbecke (Louvain, 1983).
4. On iconoclasm see Margaret Aston, England's Iconoclasts: Laws against Images (Oxford, 1988)
5. and Nigel Llewellyn, 'Cromwell and the Tombs: Historiography and Style in Post-Reformation English Funeral Monuments', in L'Art et les Revolutions, IV, ed. A. Chatelet (Strasburg, 1992), 193-204.
6. R. C. Fowler, 'The Denny Monument at Waltham Abbey', Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, new series XVI (1923), 57-9, which includes a transcription of the contractual document.
7. There is no complete account of faculties in relation to monuments, however, see Brian Burch, 'Faculty Records and Church Monuments', Bulletin of the International Society for the Study of Church Monuments, VI (1982), 97-114.
8. For the Tudor and Stuart commemorative investment in the Abbey see Nigel Llewellyn, 'The Royal Body: Monuments to the Dead, for the Living', in Renaissance Bodies. The Human Figure in English Culture c.1540-1660, ed. L. Gent and N Llewellyn (London, 1990), 218-40.
9. For an account of stylistic development in monuments in the Abbey see Adam White, 'Westminster Abbey in the Early Seventeenth Century: A Powerhouse of Ideas', Church Monuments, VII (1989), 16-53.
10. For monuments to children see Jean Wilson, 'Seated Children on Seventeenth-Century Tombs', Church Monuments Society Newsletter, VIII (ii) (1993), 47-9
11. and for the Russell tomb see H. C. Gladstone, Building an Identity: two noblewomen in England 1566-1666 (D. Phil. thesis, Open University, 1989).
12. The DNB is wrong to claim that the monument to Lady Lennox was erected by James I after his accession, her will (Public Record Office MS PROB 11/60 fo. 93 recto), dated 26 February 1577 (that is, 1578) states 'And my bodie to be buried in the greate churche of Westminster in the monument, Sepulture or Tombe, alreadie bargayned for, and appointed to me made and sett uppe in the saide churche ....'
13. Henry Holland, Heruulogia Anglica hoc est clarissimorum et doctossimorum ... (1620), 113.
14. John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments (1631), 634.
15. For the Hertford monument see Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England (1662), part vi, 144
16. and Richard Symonds, 'The Diary of the Marches Kept by the Royal Army ...', ed. C. E. Long, Camden Society, LXXIV (1854), 134;
17. for the Bodley monument see most recently Jean Wilson, 'The Memorial by Nicholas Stone to Sir Thomas Bodley', Church Monuments, VIII (1993), 57-62.
18. The decree reprinted by Weever, Ancient Funeral Monuments, 52-4.
19. Important work on this subject has been undertaken by Lucy Gent in her Picture and Poetry, 1560-1620 ... (Leamington Spa, 1981)
20. and '"The Rash Gaze": Economies of Vision in Britain, 1550-1660', in Albion's Classicism: The Visual Arts in Britain, 1550-1650, ed. Lucy Gent (New Haven and London, 1995), 377-93.
21. This is a general reference to the ideas pursued by James in several publications, typically in Family, Lineage and Civil Society. A Study of Society, Politics and Mentality in the Durham Region, 1500-1640 (Oxford, 1974).
22. This monument is fully catalogued in volume 2 of my unpublished Ph.D. thesis, 'John Weever and English Funeral Monuments of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries' (Warburg Institute, University of London, 1983).
23. See Nigel Llewellyn, 'Claims to Status through Visual Codes: Heraldry on Post-Reformation English Funeral Monuments', in Chivalry in the Renaissance, ed. S. Anglo (Woodbridge, 1990), 145-60.
24. The will can be found in PCC 51 Leicester, that is, Public Record Office MS PROB 11/74 fo.1 recto.
25. Conveniently available in Elizabethan People. State and Society, ed. Joel Hurstfield and Alan G. R. Smith (1972).
26. (1592), 26.
27. Speculum Britanniae The first parte. A ... discription of Middlesex (1593) 33.
28. See G. von Bülow's edition of the diary in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, new series VI (1892), 9.
29. History from Marble, ed. J. G. Nichols (1867), I, lxiii.
30. Diary, ed. C. E. Long (for the Camden Society), LXXIV (1859), 202-3.