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AuthorWelch, Christina-
Date2013-
Other Identifierhttps://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/FIR/article/view/14185-
Other Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1558/firn.v8i2.133-
Other Identifierhttp://repository.winchester.ac.uk/365/-
URIhttps://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/66110-
DescriptionThis short article contextualizes a subset of Northern European cadaver monuments of the late- Medieval/early-Modern era, known as transi imagery. It explores 37 English carved cadaver monuments (ECCMs) dating from between c. 1425 to 1558. By examining vernacular theology, perceptions of purgatory, and understandings of the body post-mortem, it supports current scholarly writing that these ECCMs were pedagogical in nature, prompting prayers from the living to comfort the deceased in purgatory. However, it controversially argues that ECCMs additionally provided a visual reminder to the living that purgatorial suffering was not just spiritual, but also physical during the wet stage of death (the period before the corpse became skeletal). Further, by drawing on fieldwork, this article provides the first comprehensive guide to the carved cadaver monuments that can be found in England.-
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Languageeng-
Rightscc_by_nc_nd_4-
KeywordsMedieval history-
KeywordsModern history 1500-1599-
KeywordsHistory of art-
KeywordsTheology & religious studies-
Dewey Decimal Classification940-
TitleFor Prayers and Pedagogy: Contextualizing English Carved Cadaver Monuments of the Late-Medieval Social and Religious Elite-
TypeArticle-
TypePeerReviewed-
AMAD ID564737-
Year2013-
Open Access1-
DisciplineKunstgeschichte-
Appears in Collections:BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
General history of Europe


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