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Deathbed and commemoration rituals on tomb carvings: some further references

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The books referred to in the lecture:

Brian and Moira Gittos, Interpreting Medieval Effigies: The Evidence from Yorkshire to 1400 (Oxbow, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-78925-128-9 (hbk), 978-1-78925-129-6 (epub)

Jean-Claude Schmitt, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan, Ghosts in the Middle Ages (University of Chicago Press, 1998. ISBN: 0-226-73887-6)

Andrew Joynes, ed., Medieval Ghost Stories (Boydell Press, 2001. ISBN: 0-85115-817-X)

On Books of Hours, the Office of the Dead and the liturgy for the commemoration of the soul, see Nicholas Orme, Going to Church in Medieval England (Yale University Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-300-25650-5), or Deathbed and Burial Rituals in Late Medieval Catholic Europe – University of South Wales

The woodcut of the deathbed scene is at http://www.bdnancy.fr/ars/ars.htm (this gives you thumbnails of all the woodcuts in the Ars Moriendi. Click on the first thumbnail for the deathbed scene.)

And finally: grateful thanks to Philip Lankester for putting me right on the civilian figures on the second Berkerolles tomb. Rhianydd Biebrach has identified the stone of both the Berkerolles effigies as Sutton, a fine-grained limestone quarried near the coast south of Bridgend (see her Ph D thesis, ‘Monuments and commemoration in the Diocese of Llandaff, c.1200 c.1540’, downloadable from
cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42675/Download/0042675-02082018162513.pdf
: the specific Berkerolles reference is on p 115.)


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