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William Catesby (d. 1485),
Ashby St Ledgers
(Photograph: H M Stuchfield)
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Call for
papers: Brasses Revisited
The Monumental Brass Society
is delighted is a sponsor a one-day conference examining the role of
commemoration, and in particular the study of monumental brasses, in current
postgraduate research.
The conference will be held at the Institute of Historical Research, London,
on Saturday 27th September 2008.
Papers are invited from postgraduate students on how brasses and other forms
of commemoration are used and interpreted in the
display of social status and the self-image of the commemorated from
the middle ages until the present. In particular papers are welcome on the
role of workshops and marblers; inscriptions and their language; religious
intercession and salvation; the role of dress and armour; genealogy and
heraldry, and also on the place brasses played in a broader need for
commemoration and remembrance.
Proposals, with an abstract
of no more than 250 words, are to be sent to Christian Steer,
c.steer@rhul.ac.uk,
and Rob Kinsey,
rck103@york.ac.uk,
by 31 March 2008. |
Margaret Catesby (d. 1494),
Ashby St Ledgers
(Photograph H M Stuchfield)
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