Table of Contents

Introduction: In Fellowship with the Dead - Christian Steer
Monuments and Memory: A University Town in Late Medieval England - John S. Lee
The Commemoration of the Living and the Dead at the Friars Minor of Cambridge - Michael Robson
The Foundation of Corpus Christi College Cambridge and the City of London - Richard Barber
Patrons and Benefactors: The Masters of Trinity Hall in the Later Middle Ages - Elizabeth A. New and Claire Gobbi Daunton
A Comparison of Academical and Legal Costume on Memorial Brasses - John Baker
Commemoration at a Royal College - Peter Murray Jones
Cambridge Commemorations of the Household of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509) - Susan Powell
'The Stones are all disrobed': Reasons for the Presence and Absence of Monumental Brasses in Cambridge - Nicholas Rogers
Bibliography

About the Author

Michael Robson is an emeritus fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. RICHARD BARBER has had a huge influence on the study of medieval history and literature, as both a writer and a publisher. His first book on the Arthurian legend appeared in 1961, and his major works include The Knight and Chivalry (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971), Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe and The Holy Grail: the History of a Legend which was widely praised and was translated into six languages. ELIZABETH A. NEW is Reader in Medieval History at Aberystwyth University, and has published widely on Christocentric devotion, the material culture of medieval religion, and medieval seals and sealing practices. PETER MURRAY JONES is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, UK.

Reviews

Will be useful to those interested in late medieval urban commemorative practice, and it offers some genuinely new insight into the peculiar commemorative environment created by the colleges and their unique educational/spiritual/social role.
*MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY*

This is an extremely interesting collection of essays that add up to rather more than the sum of their parts.
*RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY*

[An] excellent and thought-provoking volume.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*

A fine production.
*CHURCH MONUMENTS*

Splendidly informative.
*PROCEEDINGS OF THE CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY*

The authors of this book have created a piece that attempts to push our understanding of the dynamics within town and countryside and their effects on networks of commemoration.
*THE RICARDIAN*

A well-executed volume that serves as the first foray in contextualizing a university town against the multiplicity of commemorative strategies that were available in pre-Reformation England. In a book that draws heavily on material culture, the accompanying images and map are both necessary and excellent.
*URBAN HISTORY*

This volume is a significant contribution to the study of commemoration in all its various guises and your reviewer has no hesitation in recommending this to all who study commemoration in the Middle Ages.
*MEDIEVAL MEMORIA RESEARCH*