Pious Memories: the Wall-Mounted Memorial in the Burgundian Netherlands: 13 (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 13) - Hardcover

"Douglas Brine's volume is a well-researched and clearly written work that seeks to characterize and contextualize wall-mounted memorials in the greater Netherlands over the "long fifteenth century" between approximately 1380 and 1520. [...] This volume will be of interest to both scholars of the arts and architecture and those interested in the religious and political environments of the era."
Mitzi Kirkland-Ives, Missouri State University

"The book is well-illustrated and indexed, with Appendices containing transcriptions of key documents. Thoroughly researched, it introduces much information previously only available in Dutch or German into English. It is a convincing and interesting approach to these fascinating and much under-studied objects."
Christina Farley

"His intelligent book will be very useful to anyone interested in forms of memorialisation. In its own quiet way it is a bit of a game-changer.
Brine writes accessibly and to the point, so his text is pleasantly manageable at arond 300 pages. The book is nicely produced with easily legible type of a convenient size. The main reproductions are very good quality, ... ."
Kim Woods, The Open University, UK

"Pious Memories is an important work for any medievalist as it shows how the memoria cult pertains to so many forms of medieval art and how there may be an unsuspected memorial purpose underlying works that now lack an epitaph or other identifying marks - and this is true not just of art in the Low Countries. Brine's work thus raises our awareness of this often overlooked character and purpose of many medieval works of art, including portraits such as Van Eyck's Léal Souvenir that has sadly lost its original frame and inscription that could have proved this point - and the identity of the sitter - once and for all."
Sophie Oosterwijk, School of Art History, University of St. Andrews

In Pious Memories Douglas Brine examines the context, function, and meaning of early Netherlandish memorials (in the form of sculptures, paintings, and brasses), and the role they played in commemorating the dead in the Low Countries during the fifteenth century.