[PDF.14eg] The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey

The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey

[PDF.ll65] The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey

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 | #6097332 in Books |  2003-07-31 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .70 x7.90 x10.92l, | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||1 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting Information|By P. D. Harrison|I found the book very interesting as I did not know that Westminster Abbey had funeral effigies. I also found it interesting that the practice had been around for so many years. I enjoyed the book.| |Enthralling. --Costume

Scholarly, well-footnoted and copiously illustrated... essential reading for those interested in the personages, and for historians of costume. --English Historical

A fascinating and very useful catalogue. --Costu

The funeral effigies housed in their own quarters in the Norman undercroft are one of the most remarkable yet little-known treasures of Westminster abbey. They derive from a time when an effigy of the dead monarch, statesman or national hero played an important part in funeral ritual, offering a visible likeness as a focus to the ceremonial of the funeral. Surprisingly moving when gathered together, this unexpected pantheon of celebrities includes remarkable medieval woo...

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