Monumental Brass Society

No Sacrifice to oblivion: Studies on Monuments and Commemoration for Paul Cockerham

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Edited by David Lepine and Christian Steer

This Festschrift honours the notable contribution of Paul Cockerham to the study of tomb monuments and commemoration, which he has accomplished while also being a busy country vet. The retail price will be £35.00 but a pre-publication offer is available of £30 (post-free in the U.K., £10 for overseas) for those who subscribe to the Tabula Gratulatoria by 31 Oct. 2024. The contents include:

- Sophie Oosterwijk Foreword
- Christian Steer It shouldn’t happen to a vet, but it did: Paul Cockerham and the Study of European Tomb Monuments
- Julia Faiers Et sepultus est in medio cori: The Incised Effigial Slab of Bernard de Camiat (d. 1337) in Albi cathedral (Tarn, France)
- Reinhard J. Lamp Flemish Influence on Lübeck’s Sepulchral Incised Copper-Alloy Plates
- Robert Marcoux A Note on the Documentary Evidence for the Tomb Monuments of Notre-Dame de Paris
- David Lepine ‘Too Fat in Body and Purse’?: The Brass of Henry Codyngton (d. 1404) at Bottesford, Leicestershire, and the Commemoration of Kings’ Clerks
- Tobias Capwell The Monumental Brass of Sir Peter Courtenay (d. 1405) at Exeter Cathedral and its Representation of Armour
- Nigel Saul Commemoration and Dynastic Extinction: The Brass of Margery Arundell (d. 1420) at Antony (Cornwall)
- †Clive Burgess On All Souls’ Day in the Charnel Chapel at St Paul’s: Commemorating London’s Unnamed Dead
- Christian Steer A Palimpsest from Medieval London: The Brass of William Chapman, Sheriff and Tailor, of St Dunstan in the West (d. 1446)
- †Jerome Bertram The Benevolent Bewforests of Dorchester, Oxfordshire, and their Brasses
- Joanna Mattingly Makers or Donors? Reclaiming the Early Sixteenth-Century Altarnun Maker's' Bench End and Setting it in its Wider Context
- Nigel Llewellyn Lord Burghley’s Monuments: Art as a Piece of State
- Amy Louise Harris Monumental Transactions in Early Modern Ireland
- Elizabeth Tingle Funerary Commemoration and the Counter Reformation in France: The Memorialisation of Cathedral Canons in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- Nicholas Rogers A Jesuit in an Anglican Parish Church: The Fortescue Brass at Huddingon, Worcestershire
- Jean Wilson Fortunate Travellers: The Recording of Overseas Contacts on Early Modern Funerary Monuments in England
- David Meara William Butterfield (1814–1900): Architect and Designer of Brasses Shaun Tyas Medieval and Renaissance Tombs in Ghost Stories

To order a copy please send the linked form, with a cheque made payable to Shaun Tyas Publishing, to Christian Steer, 8 Shefford Lodge, Link Road, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 7LR; to pay by PayPal / bank transfer please email: christian.steer@york.ac.uk.

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