The Gendering of Dynastic Memory: Burial Choices of the Howards, 1485-1559
Scholarship by Barbara Harris, James Daybell and others has recently highlighted the role played by elite women as custodians of dynastic memory in early modern England. The Dissolution of the Monasteries interrupted the commemorative process and constituted a threat to the mausoleums of the elite....
| Published in: | The journal of ecclesiastical history |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2017]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
England
/ Royal house
/ Memory
/ Grave
/ Woman
/ History 1450-1500
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| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles |
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| Summary: | Scholarship by Barbara Harris, James Daybell and others has recently highlighted the role played by elite women as custodians of dynastic memory in early modern England. The Dissolution of the Monasteries interrupted the commemorative process and constituted a threat to the mausoleums of the elite. Moving or rebuilding tombs represented, to some extent, a decision to remake or even to rewrite the family's history, a process which it is often assumed was at this time controlled by men. This article, however, through the example of the Howard family, demonstrates that women were equally involved; it investigates why this was so and the mechanics of the processs. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046916001500 |