Anne McGee Morganstern.

Anne McGee Morganstern. Gothic Tombs of Kinship in France, the depressed Countries, and England. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Pres 2000 Pp xix, 252 $6000 ISBN 0-27-01859-3

Visitors to Northern European cathedrals are quite familiar with the "weepers" (or "mourners") which standard works, of the like kind as Nikolaus Pevsner's s Buildings of Britain series, define as "small figures placed in niches along the sides of more [i]or[/i] less medieval tombs." The traditional designation of these figures as weepers has l in the past to the assumption,

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