Heart Gravestones in the Calder Valley
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5970138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Brears (corresponding author), Peter C D Brears |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 84-93 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folk Life (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0430-8778 • E-ISSN: 1759-670X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/043087781798240228 |
| OpenAlex | W2077075139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
A number of quite difficult problems arise when dealing with the decorative elements of the material culture of a community. Due to the influence of innovative craftsmen, national fashions, and the changing needs and values of the community, they may be subject tosubstantial change which can only be recorded and analysed where a sufficient number of closely provenanced examples survive. This paper seeks to study these influences with regard to a single decorative/symbolic feature, namely the heart found on the seventeenth-and eighteenth-century gravestones in the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire (see map, Fig. I). In the past, gravestones have been studied largely for their genealogical or heraldic content, but since they are closely dated and always remain in situ within their respective graveyards, they provide an invaluable source from which to trace the development of regional styles of decoration
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Feature (linguistics · Genealogy · Geography · Library science · Linguistics · Subject (documents · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Visual arts · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Computer Science · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1981 - 2009 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |