Renesanční epitaf v průsečíku historických disciplín a jeho vypovídací možnosti

• Authors: Onddřej Jakubec

Title variants

EN

Renaissance Epitaph on the Intersection of Disciplines and its Communicational Possibilities

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Despite a number of particular studies, the Renaissance epitaph remains a largely undervalued source. Art historians study it solely as a “work of art,” while historians tend to use it as a source of purely factual data (heraldic, epigraphic, genealogical, prosopographic etc.). However, from the wider, cultural-historical or historicalanthropological perspective, it is necessary for both disciplines to realize the specific value of the epitaph as a sepulchral monument, the goal of which was to construct the identity of the “social body” of the deceased. The specific conceptual character of the epitaph thus offers a possibility to study it as a complex medium (source) reflecting cultural codes of dying, death, remembering and salvation (which is especially interesting in the context of Europe divided by different denominations), but also as a pure phenomenon that took part in forming the death discourse of the period.

Keywords

EN

Epitaph; sepulchral monuments; death; Renaissance; early modern era; confessions; Czech Lands

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 111
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 66-100

Contributors

author

Onddřej Jakubec

• Seminář dějin umění, Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic