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Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine new copy. 448pp. plus 224 pages of colour plates, real-cloth binding, sewn in sections and colour dustwrapper. France is fabulously rich in incised effigial slabs - a two-dimensional form of funeral monument popular from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century - and this book is the first study written in English to examine on detail their unique qualities in a particular region of that country. It uncovers their various meanings, as grave markers and tools to encourage intercession for those they commemorate, and how they were commissioned by a socially diverse range of patrons, from ecclesiastical grandees to the lesser clergy, and from knights and esquires to widows and members of the professional classes. The social and artistic aspects of the art form are fully discussed in an incisive introduction of seven chapters, followed by an inventory of the 187 known slabs from the five… Read More