Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture

by Jessica Barker

Book Overview

Pioneering investigation of the popular "double tomb" effigies in the Middle Ages.

2022 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period before 1600
2021 International Center of Medieval Art Annual Book Prize

Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side, and hand in hand, immortalised in elegantly carved stone: what Philip Larkin's poem An Arundel Tomb later described as their "stone...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783276940
• ISBN13: 9781783276943
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"