Grave stuff
Litigation with a London tomb-maker in 1421
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4891846 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nigel Saul (Royal Holloway University of London), Jonathan Mackman (University of London), Christopher Whittick (East Sussex County Council) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 226 |
| Pages | 572-585 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-3471 • E-ISSN: 1468-2281 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2010.00559.x |
| OpenAlex | W1907642345 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The recent A.H.R.C.-funded project on ‘Londoners and the law’ has brought to light a case in the court of common pleas in which the executors of Sir John Dallingridge of Bodiam (d. 1408) sued a London mason, John Petit, for failure to deliver to their satisfaction a tomb monument commemorating the deceased knight. The greater part of the contract for the monument was rehearsed in the pleadings, and as a result valuable light is shed on the expectations of patrons and the workings of the market in tomb monuments. Today, at Bodiam castle there survives a mutilated fragment of an alabaster torso which, on the evidence of the heraldry, must have formed part of a tomb monument to Sir John Dallingridge. It is suggested that this alabaster effigy is the product of a different commission from the one given to Petit, and that after Petit's dismissal Dallingridge's executors went to a Midlands firm in search of a suitable replacement
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Commission · Dismissal · Heraldry · Knight · Political science · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |