Funerary Inscriptions in Early Modern Europe: Shaping Identities to Remember (Intersections, 98)

This volume brings together studies that consider funerary inscriptions from Early Modern Europe (1400-1800) from various angles: their material dimension, their literary character, the content of what they are stating, their relation to sculpted and other decorations, and the wider context of a culture of commemoration and remembrance. The central question is: how were funerary inscriptions used to shape the memory of a deceased person in such a way as to determine how (s)he would be remembered and what (s)he would be commemorated for? How would this image fit in the contemporary collective culture of remembrance or in narrower spheres, as for instance specific religious groups or denominations?

Contributors are: Faith D. Acker, Kaylee P. Alexander, Ramona Baltolu, Jens Borchert-Pickenhan, Veronika Brandis, Christopher Joby, Jan L. de Jong, Katharina Kagerer, Rodney Lokaj, Anu Mänd, Luise Mervin, John Nassichuk, Stefania Pasti, Snezana Rajic, Robert Seidel, Federica Vermot, Arsenii Vetushko-Kalevich, Maia Wellington Gahtan, and Stamatis Zochios.

Veronika Brandis, Ph.D. (2007), University of Dresden, is senior lecturer of Classical Philology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Her research interests are inscriptions of the Early Modern period, the reception of classical authors, and history of education. Her main book publication is Die Grabinschriften der Hohenzollern (2009).

Jan L. de Jong, Ph.D. (1987), Leiden University, is emeritus professor of Early Modern Italian art at the University of Groningen. He has published The Power and the Glorification. Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (2013) and Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400–1600). Monuments of Mourning, Memory and Meditation (2022).

Robert Seidel, Dr. phil. (1992) and Dr. habil. (2000), University of Heidelberg, is professor of German literature at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. He has published books, articles and editions on German and Neo-Latin literature, most recently Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context (2021) and Nicodemus Frischlin: Korrespondenz. Mit Regesten und Kommentaren (2022).