Anyone for Tennis? The Monument to Captain Gervase Scrope in St Michael's, Coventry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8887287 |
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| Authors | Jean Wilson (Boston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Pages | 357-364 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Antiquaries Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5815 • E-ISSN: 1758-5309 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003581500000950 |
| OpenAlex | W2148693290 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The monument to Captain Gervase Scrope was destroyed in 1940, but a rubbing survives in the Society's collections. It alludes to Real Tennis, and in doing so takes part in a debate extending from Plautus to Stephen Hawking about the attitude of the Creator to the universe, although the side it takes is, in an ecclesiastical context, unexpected
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · Performance art · Rubbing · Visual arts · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Engineering · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History
| Highly cited | No |
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