The background to a medieval military effigy, the development of the fashion for kneeling figures on tomb chests, polychrome on a royal effigy, some gruesome charnel carvings, detailed study of some Baroque monuments, the chequered history of a politician’s monument, and a wide range of book reviews.
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NIGEL TRINGHAM
The monument of Ralph, Lord Basset (d. 1390), formerly in Lichfield Cathedral
MADELEINE GRAY
Kneeling weepers on medieval tomb chests and monumental brasses
CHRISTINE BUCKLEY with ANN J. ADAMS
The effigy of King John (d. 1216), Worcester Cathedral: evidence for its polychromy
ROGER BOWDLER
‘A Golgotha of Skulls and Bones’: charnel monuments of the Caroline period
ELISE PHILIPPE
Documenting the Mérode-d’Allamont commemorative monument: new archival and typological perspectives
ANNA FAIRLEY NIELSSON
The Huskisson Monument, Liverpool: The biography of a nineteenth-century memorial
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