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Elite commemoration in Early Modern England: reading funerary monuments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jean Wilson*
Affiliation:
Wholeway, Harlton, Cambridge CB3 7ET, England

Abstract

Research into the iconography and symbolism of early modern funerary monuments provides an important new approach to this unexploited source. Here the remarkable monuments to Sir Henry Savile are explored.

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Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2000

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