Gothic Tombs of Kinship in France, the Low Countries, and England. (Reviews of Books).

Anne McGee Morganstern. Gothic Tombs of Kinship in France, the Low Countries, and England. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2000. Pp. xix, 252. $60.00. ISBN 0-27-01859-3.

Visitors to Northern European cathedrals are quite familiar with the "weepers" (or "mourners") which standard works, such as Nikolaus Pevsner's s Buildings of Britain series, define as "small figures placed in niches along the sides of some medieval tombs." The traditional designation of these figures as weepers has led in the past to the assumption, by ...

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