...Fred Orton © by Duke University Press 2004 Northumbrian Identity in the Eighth Century: The Ruthwell and Bewcastle Monuments; Style, Classification...

...Philip Schwyzer The century after the Reformation witnessed a profusion of artworks commemorating lost or failed monuments. In different ways, these memorials to memorials sought to register, if not necessarily to repair, a rupture in cultural memory. Early modern memorials to memorials could take...

...Patricia Phillippy Following three-year-old Henry Montagu’s death in 1625, his father installed a memorial comprised of three objects in Barnwell All Saints Church. In addition to an alabaster monument, Sidney Montagu incorporated into his memorial program a thirteenth-century piscina (a basin...

... events are brought within the economy of salvation history, serving as threads in a larger fabric of the narration of the past. In the construction of this historical web, monumental objects play an important role. In the thirteenth-century Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César , copied at the Crusader...

...Russ Leo Published in four volumes between 1671 and (posthumously) 1704, Geeraardt Brandt's monumental History of the Reformation and other Ecclesiastical Transactions in and about the Low-Countries challenges abiding assumptions about Reformation, confession, and modernity. Recasting...

...Andrea Denny-Brown A medieval and early modern “best seller,” William Durandus's monumental late-thirteenth-century liturgical treatise, Rationale Divinorum Officiorum , offered its readers a definitive, codified explanation for almost every aspect of church symbolism. A close look at its book...

... how the De Bry compilations both disclose and enclose the pluralities of the worlds their travelers encountered, negotiating through word and image the dialectics of difference and similarity. The complex intertwining of religious, ethnographic, and scientific impulses in this monumental publishing...

...Michiel van Groesen In 1631, Matthaeus Merian and Johann Ludwig Gottfried published a one-volume abridgment of the monumental America series issued by Theodor De Bry and his two sons. Historia Antipodum can be considered the apotheosis of the collection of voyages to the New World. This article...

... of materials (including saints’ lives, poetry, monumental brasses, and wills), the essay shows how the English imagined maidens who were untamed by manly authority, endowed with a menacing sexuality, and superhumanly powerful in relation to death. It concludes by considering the global reach of this curious...

... of the 1530s, Reginald Pole's De Unitate , and John Foxe's Acts and Monuments . It also examines the Venetian-Greek Nicander Nucius's depiction of the Henrician Reformation in his autobiography, exploring how this unique account was shaped by Nicander's religious beliefs. Eastern Christianity must...

... appointed to investigate the causes of the fire) and the fire’s material com- memoration (Christopher Wren’s monument). That the monument is encrusted with inscriptions reveals the overlap of the discursive and the material. As I will show, the printed “informations...

... Thomas A. Prendergast The College of Wooster Wooster, Ohio There is not in this country any monuments of antiquity left, but certain fabulous histories and that lately written.  — Bi shop R obi n son For that at my late being there, I...

... done much to expand the jurisdiction of art history, promoting objects that defy the category of fine art as viable subjects of analysis.8 Fittingly, Alois Riegl s 1903 Modern Cult of Monuments might be seen as a precursor to visual culture studies, which took seriously as an object of theoretical...

... incomer and community specifically revolves around the textualization of a monumental inscription, “which whosoever shall happen to read, the ignorant common people dwelling thereabout, give it out upon a credulous errour, that hee shall be sure to die within a lit- tle while after” (Brit., 644...

... the broadest historical argument of Gibbon’s enormous work: Rome fell to ruin when the city became Christian and its new leaders destroyed or neglected the former monuments of its classical past. Nearly a century later another great historian, Jacob Burckhardt, followed Gibbon by visiting Rome during his...

... attest not only to the continuing allure of these halls of fame but also to the resonant vitality of Damasus’ ubiquitous monumental texts. 9 Nevertheless, these days it is Damasus the impresario of the saints, not the historical archaeologist, who grips our imagination. There is no longer...

... rents and fees, and hires masons, carpenters, and other craftspeople to rebuild the land (8590–610). After installing the infrastucture needed to reconstruct a thriving 48 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 32.1 / 2002 nation, Aurelius expresses a desire to build a monument...

... force. Ben Jonson is said to have (re-)invented the book with his Workes (1616), and the significance of later books seems to depend upon their con- forming to Jonson’s (re-)invention: since Jonson’s folio is a monumental col- lection carefully selected and arranged...

..., but “coulde not fynde any one sentence perfyte.” Nevertheless, before returning the book to Elyot, he thinks he can decipher one line which seems to suggest “that the sayde boke conteyned some auncient monumente of this yle”; one word stands out, “Prytania,” which he believes “was there put...

... University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama Two of the master texts of the English Reformation—John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (also known as his Book of Martyrs) and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer (also known as the Prayer Book)—share...