’... provides a valuable and wide-ranging contribution to the understanding of early modern memorializing practices...’ Renaissance Quarterly ’This excellent book is essential reading for anyone interested in the monuments of Early Modern England; indeed its Introduction is highly recommended to anyone interested in monuments... Peter Sherlock has written a humane, learned and illuminating book which will be fundamental to the ... Read morestudy of church monuments.’ Church Monuments ’This is a groundbreaking study... The text is copiously illustrated... English tombs have had their interpreters but this text offers many fresh ideas mostly owing to the religious import which Sherlock reads into these post-Reformation statements to their present and future.’ Parergon ’Coupled with a thoughtful critical discussion underpinned by sound, sophisticated research, an elegant, lucid style in which explications are ordered and easy to follow, and forty fascinating illustrations, all subject to insightful commentary, Sherlock’s love of the subject makes the book a joy to read.’ Clio ’... Sherlock provides a well-argued and thoroughly researched account of some of the effects of religious and cultural change on portrayals of the dead.’ Huntington Library Quarterly ’... what we have here is essentially a broad discourse on funerary monuments, remarkably wide-ranging, rich in detailed information, and engagingly presented. ... It is a book to be recommended to anyone wishing to know why monuments contribute so much to our understanding of early modern England.’ Literature & History ’... an extremely valuable new addition to the work on early modern monuments in England, one which convincingly rediscovers their spiritual dimension.’ Ecclesiastical History ’Sherlock’s book is a wide-ranging study, encompassing broad conceptualization and a long time-frame. It is meticulously researched and attractively presented with a set of photographs of funeral mon Show Less