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020			_a9781108470186 (hardback)
082	0	0	_a929.1 _bHOL/G
100	1		_aHolladay, Joan A.,
245	1	0	_aGenealogy and the Politics of Representation in the High and Late Middle Ages
260			_aCambridge _bCUP _c2019
300			_a386p.
500			_a"This study will examine examples of both ramified charts, including trees properly speaking, and more linear portrayals of succession in which family members or office-holders appear next to one another."
520			_a"Images and image cycles with genealogical content were everywhere in the high and later Middle Ages. They represent families related by blood as well as successive office holders and appear as family trees and lineages of single figures in manuscripts, on walls and in stained glass, and in sculpture and metalwork. Yet art historians have hardly remarked on the frequency of these images. Considering the physical contexts and functions of these works alongside the goals of their patrons, this volume examines groups of figural genealogies ranging across northern Europe and dating from the mid-twelfth to the mid-fourteenth century. Joan A. Holladay considers how they were used to legitimize rulers and support their political and territorial goals, to reinforce archbishops' rights to crown kings, to cement relationships between families of founders and their monastic foundations, and to commemorate the dead. The flexibility and legibility of this genre was key to its widespread use"--
650		0	_aGenealogy
650		0	_aNobility
650		0	_aRoyal houses
650		7	_aHISTORY / Europe / General.
942			_cBK