Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

'Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe' comprises eleven chapters by twelve art historians. Together, these essays investigate commemorative practices in Cyprus, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. Offering a broad overview of memorialization across Europe and the Mediterranean, each chapter examines local customs through particular case studies. The essays explore complementary themes through the lens of commemorative art, including social status; personal and corporate identities; the intersections of mercantile, intellectual, and religious attitudes; upward (and downward) mobility; and the cross-cultural exchange of memorialization strategies.