John Lord Lumley and the Creation and Commemoration of Lineage in Early Modern England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11614035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C D Liddy (0000-0002-5033-3992, Durham University, corresponding author), Christian Steer |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 167 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 197-227 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00665983.2010.11020797 |
| OpenAlex | W2325775661 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
This paper reconstructs and reinterprets a sequence of monuments which was installed in the parish church at Chester-le-Street in County Durham in the 1590 s by John Lord Lumley, who is probably best known today for his status as one of the most important collectors of books and paintings in the reign of Elizabeth I. The monuments consisted of retrospective effigies of his ancestors in the direct male line and traced the family's roots to the pre-Conquest period. The paper explores the purpose of the church monuments and argues that they should not be understood in terms of changing ideas about memory and commemoration or about the nature and basis of nobility in the second half of the sixteenth century. Rather, they were designed to serve specific functions and addressed pragmatic and perennial aristocratic anxieties about power, lordship, lineage and the succession, which remained untouched by the Reformation
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · CONQUEST · Lineage (genetic · Nobility · Period (music · Politics · Power (physics · Reign · Classics · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |