Table of Contents

1. Rivalling/reviving Rome: environmental genealogies in palace halls; 2. Structuring the past: history and genealogy in thirteenth-century England; 3. Crowning the king: coronation rights at Cologne and Reims; 4. Advertizing allegiances: tombs and tomb cycles; 5. Flattering founders: genealogical imagery in cloister chronicles.

Promotional Information

Appearing in all figural media from the mid-twelfth century, family trees and lineages made political claims for their patrons.

About the Author

Joan A. Holladay is Professor of Art History at the University of Texas, Austin. Author of Illuminating the Epic: The Kassel Willehalm Codex and the Landgraves of Hesse in the Early Fourteenth Century (1997) and Co-Editor of Gothic Sculpture in America, volume 3 (2016), she has held positions as Visiting Senior Fellow at Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art; Hohenberg Chair of Excellence, University of Memphis; and NEH Professor of the Humanities, Colgate University. In 2008, she received the Distinguished Teaching Award of the University of Texas's College of Fine Arts.

Reviews

'The thesis of this work is that political positioning of medieval patrons, using both real and imagined lineages, was widespread … Recommended.' K. E. Staab, Choice