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Rulers on Display: Tombs and Epitaphs of Princes & the Well-Born in Northern Europe 1470-1670
26 - 27 April 2019
Colloquium

University of Toronto, Emmanuel College Room 302, 75 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto, Canada

During the sixteenth and seventeenth century princes and the nobility found tomb sculpture an effective means of refashioning their identity and promoting their interests in a rapidly changing society. Enormous funds were spent on these monuments, either by the occupants themselves or by their heirs, for whom the sepulchers became a generalized marker of family status. Epitaphs were also fashioned of words, penned in ink and published as well as engraved in stone. Poetical tributes and eulogies to rulers gave them another type of public persona. For this conference we wish to focus on the agency of these creations in the social and political arena of Northern Europe and Iberia.

Organizers

Ethan Matt Kavaler (University of Toronto)

Birgit Ulrike Münch (University of Bonn)

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