From an intercultural perspective, this book focuses on aesthetic strategies and forms of representation in premodern Christian and Islamic sepulchral art. Seeing the tomb as an interface for eschatological, political, and artistic debate, the contributions analyze the diversity of memorial space configurations.

The subjects range from the complex interaction between architecture and tomb topography through to questions relating to the funereal expression of power and identity, and to practices of ritual realization in the context of individual and collective memory.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 6
• CONTENTS 8
• aMemorial Space Configurations An Introduction 10
• TOPOGRAPHY AND REPRESENTATION / TOPOGRAPHIE UND REPRÄSENTATION 22
• On a Holy Mountain? Remote and Elevated Funerary Monuments in Medieval Islam 22
• Urban Space Beyond the Walls Siting Islamic Funerary Complexes in Konya 34
• Die Entstehung der Hohenzollern-Grablege im Raumgefüge der Zisterzienserabteikirche Heilsbronn 53
• Von Stiftern und Mönchen Grablegen als Erinnerungsorte im Kontext monastischer Raumkonzepte 82
• Saint-Denis und die Grablegen der Königinnen bis ins 15. Jahrhundert Programm oder Zufall? 106
• POWER AND IDENTITY / MACHT UND IDENTITÄT 106
• The Funerary Complex of Sultan Qalawun (1284–1285) Between Text and Architecture 123
• The Crosses of the Sultan Sultan Qaytbay and the Mystery of the Two Crosses in his Funerary Complex at Cairo's Northern Cemetery 143
• The Capilla Real in Córdoba Transcultural Exchange in Medieval Iberia 152
• Sepoltura al solito? Die Grablegen in Santo Spirito im Kontext von Regulierungen der Florentiner Begräbniskultur und vormodernen 167
• The Stadtholder’s Two Bodies and the Visibility of Power The Tomb of William of Orange in the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft 186