Dijkdrent, Mats
[UCL]
Funerary rituals and their material culture in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were inextricably linked to each other. Modern scholarship, however, was for a long time limited by the inheritance of disciplinary boundaries when studying either tombs or funerary rites. I propose to use funerary rites as a lens to understand the material monuments left after the event. I will show how the ritual charged the object with meaning. I will specifically focus on the tomb of the cardinals d’Amboise in Rouen (constructed shortly after 1510) and propose that the concept of ‘magnificentia’ was used to frame the beauty and opulence of the funeral procession as well as the tomb as virtuous.
Bibliographic reference |
Dijkdrent, Mats. Commemorating Virtuousness in Late Medieval Rouen.International Medieval Congress (Leeds, du 01/07/2024 au 04/07/2024). |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/298313 |