The Monuments of Westminster Abbey

Power and Memory in Early Modern Britain
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-38324-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

This is the first critical history of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century monuments of Westminster Abbey. It explains how the Abbey was transformed from a monastery with royal tombs into one of the most popular sites of commemoration in early modern Europe. It shows the extraordinary impact of the Reformation and civil wars and Revolution on the monuments at Westminster Abbey. The book includes accounts of the royal tombs, Poets’ Corner, and monuments to soldiers and sailors. The book illustrates how tourism grew and how the Abbey and others responded by erecting signs, providing tour guides, and publishing guide books, that made visiting the monuments one of the most popular amusements in London.

This book is essential reading anyone who has visited Westminster Abbey and been fascinated by its unparalleled collection of monuments and wants to know more about their history and meaning. The book makes a significant contribution to memory studies by providing an in-depth case study of a single building in the premodern era, and creating a methodology for studying the habits of memory in British culture. The book has 32 illustrations including photographs of the tombs and images of the monuments as reproduced in early modern publications, revealing the vibrancy of commemoration at Westminster Abbey.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sherlock, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Öffentliche Gebäude, Gewerbliche Bauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1

Stairway to Heaven

Chapter 2

Resurrection

Chapter 3

Republic of Memory

Chapter 4

Royal Dust

Chapter 5

Wits to Read

Chapter 6

Dulce Et Decorum

Chapter 7

Entertaining Memory

Chapter 8

Habits of Memory

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Sherlock is Professor at Charles Sturt University, Australia, where he is Associate Director of Yindyamarra Nguluway. From 2012 to 2024 he was Foundation Vice-Chancellor of the University of Divinity. An internationally-recognised expert on history, memory, and commemoration in Reformation and Renaissance Europe, he is author of Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England (2008).