A Sight Full of Woe: The Cecil Family and Their Monuments c.1580–1620

IF 0.4 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Emotions-History Culture Society Pub Date : 2023-06-23 DOI:10.1163/2208522x-02010199
P. Sherlock
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This essay is the first collective analysis of the monuments of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and his family. Between 1580 and 1620 Burghley and his son Robert Cecil were prolific patrons of monuments for themselves and their immediate family members in Westminster Abbey and near their country houses at Stamford, Lincolnshire, and Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Their commissions were typical of Elizabethan monuments: they reflected the maxim that magnificence in memory should be proportionate to the honour the dead enjoyed in life, they focused on aristocratic concerns to transfer land and power from one generation to the next, and they replaced the early sixteenth-century fear of purgatorial suffering with the Protestant hope of the resurrection. Unusually, however, the Cecils’ monuments included emotionally charged inscriptions, recording for posterity their grief at the death of wives, mothers and daughters, as well as pride in their progeny and legacy. This case study demonstrates that early modern objects such as monuments to the dead could communicate love and grief, mirth and despair, hope and happiness to future generations through their words and images.
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《充满悲哀的景象:塞西尔家族和他们的纪念碑(1580 - 1620)
这篇文章是第一次对威廉·塞西尔、伯利勋爵及其家人的纪念碑进行集体分析。1580年至1620年间,伯利和他的儿子罗伯特·塞西尔在威斯敏斯特教堂以及林肯郡斯坦福德和赫特福德郡哈特菲尔德的乡间别墅附近,为自己和直系亲属建造了大量纪念碑。他们的委托是典型的伊丽莎白时代的纪念碑:他们反映了这样的格言:记忆的壮丽应该与死者生前享有的荣誉成正比;他们关注的是贵族对土地和权力代代相传的关注;他们用新教对复活的希望取代了16世纪早期对炼狱般的痛苦的恐惧。然而,不同寻常的是,塞西尔夫妇的纪念碑上有充满感情的铭文,为子孙后代记录了他们对妻子、母亲和女儿去世的悲痛,以及对他们的后代和遗产的自豪。这个案例研究表明,早期的现代物品,如死者的纪念碑,可以通过他们的文字和图像向后代传达爱和悲伤,欢乐和绝望,希望和幸福。
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