Transactions (Journal)
Transactions is an annual members-only publication featuring articles on brasses and incised slabs, with an average of 100 pages in each issue.
Volumes of the Transactions for the period from 1992 to 2017 are freely available as downloadable PDF files. Volumes for 2018 onwards (i.e. the last five years) are available free to members only, or to those who wish to join the Society. See join us.
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2023 Transactions (Volume XXIV)
- Flemish Sophistication in Rural Hertfordshire: The Brass of William Kesteven (d. 1361)
by David Lepine - Why are there so many brasses at Childrey, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire)?
by Nigel Saul - The Norwich Marblers, c.1440-1550: Part 1
by Jon Bayliss - Sir John Fogge’s Tomb: The Culmination of his Commemorative Scheme in Ashford Church, Kent
by Gillian Draper - The Verminous Cadaver Monument in Medieval Scotland
by Julian Luxford - Reviews
- Index
- Flemish Sophistication in Rural Hertfordshire: The Brass of William Kesteven (d. 1361)
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2022 Transactions (Volume XXIII)
- ‘L’usaige de mittre, d’anel et de tous signes pontificaux’: The Brass of Abbot Paschal Huguenet (d. 1399), once in the Abbey Church of La Couture, Le Mans (France)
by Paul Cockerham - ‘Preciosarum Domuum Fuit Edificator’: Bishop William Alnwick (d. 1449) in Brass, Wax, Glass and Stone
by Rosemary C.E. Hayes - A Survey of Monumental Brasses of Late Medieval Vowesses
by Laura M. Richmond - ‘A Memory on whose Soule Jesu Have Mercy’: John Fuller (d. 1526) of Norwich, a Benefactor and his Brass
by Christian Steer - ‘Aere Perennius’: Monumental Brasses in Literature, Art and Film
by David Meara - Review
- ‘L’usaige de mittre, d’anel et de tous signes pontificaux’: The Brass of Abbot Paschal Huguenet (d. 1399), once in the Abbey Church of La Couture, Le Mans (France)
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2021 Transactions (Volume XXII)
- The Cantilupe Indent in Hereford Cathedral and its Associated Shrine Base Re-assessed
by Sally Badham - The Recent Discovery of a Flemish Indent at Leatherhead, Surrey
by Stephen Freeth and Nigel Saul - Piety and Dynastic Memory: The Brass of Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester
by Lucia Diaz Pascual - Brass among Glass: The Tame Family Brasses in Fairford Church, Gloucestershire
by John S. Lee - Conservation of Brasses, 2019–20
by Martin Stuchfield - Reviews
- The Cantilupe Indent in Hereford Cathedral and its Associated Shrine Base Re-assessed
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2020 Transactions (Volume XXI)
- Obituary
by Martin Stuchfield - The Tournai Trade: Flemish Brasses and Slabs for British Clergy
by Jerome Bertram - The Brass of Sir John de Creke and Lady Alyne at Westley Waterless, Cambridgeshire
by Robert Kinsey - The Brass of Bishop Waltham (d. 1395)
by Jerome Bertram - Schoolmasters and Pupils on Brasses before the Reformation
by Nicholas Orme - Antiquarian Records of Brasses in Norfolk 1840-99: A Quantitative Approach
by Matthew Sillence - Reviews
- Obituary
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2019 Transactions (Volume XX)
- Insignia and Status: Banners on Brasses in England in the Late Middle Ages
by Nigel Saul - The Brass of Thomas Stapel (d. 1372), Sergeant-at-Arms to Edward III: A Monument to a Career in Household Service
by Matthew Hefferan - Bishop Hallum's Brass in Konstanz Minster
by Nicholas Rogers - Ex Terra Vis: The Cadaver Brass of Richard and Cecily Howard at Aylsham, Norfolk
by Julian Luxford - Conservation of Brasses, 2017-18
by William Lack and Simon Nadin - Reviews
- Insignia and Status: Banners on Brasses in England in the Late Middle Ages
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2018 Transactions (Volume XIX, Part 5)
- Editorial
- Commemoration of the War Dead in Late Medieval England
by Nigel Saul - The Brass of Sir Nicholas Dagworth
by David Green - The Death of Achilles: The Funerary Brass of Sir Humphrey Bourchier
by Christian Steer - Brasses of the English Civil War: Two Case Studies
by Richard Busby - Commemoration of the War Dead in the 'Long Eighteenth Century'
by Michael Harris - 'Sorrow and Pride': Commemorating the Anglo-Boer War in Brass
by David Meara - Brass Memorials to Conflict of the Liverpool Region
by Jonathan Trigg - Index
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2017 Transactions (Volume XIX, Part 4)
- Bishops, Deans and Canons: Commemorative Contexts Across Two Centuries at Exeter Cathedral
by Paul Cockerham - 'Tis the sheep have paid for all': Merchant Commemoration in Late Medieval Newark
by John Lee - Edward Courtenay and his Brass in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
by Nicholas Orme - Kateline d'Ault and the Angels: the Brass of Kateline d'Ault (d. 1461) in St. James', Bruges
by Harriette Peel - An Aristocractic Brass in Late Fifteenth-Century England
by Lynda Pidgeon - Conservation of Brasses, 2016
by William Lack - Review
- Bishops, Deans and Canons: Commemorative Contexts Across Two Centuries at Exeter Cathedral
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2016 Transactions (Volume XIX, Part 3)
- Editorial
- Investigating the Metal Tombs of Medieval France: A Statistical Approach
by Robert Marcoux - The Canons of St. Paul's and their Brasses
by Christian Steer - New light on lost brasses in York Minster
by Sally Badham and John Dent - Ghostly Remains: The Surviving Howard Brasses at Lambeth
by Lisa Ford - Conservation of Brasses, 2015
by William Lack - Reviews
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2015 Transactions (Volume XIX, Part 2)
- Editorial
- A Debate with Death: John Rudyng’s Brass in St. Andrew’s Church, Biggleswade
by Neil Cartlidge - A Cadaver in Context:
the Shroud Brass of John Brigge Revisited
by David Harry - The Southwark Workshops, 1585-1605
by Jon Bayliss - Brasses in the Church of Our Lady and
Alphonsus, Hanley Swan, Worcestershire
by George McHardy - Conservation of Brasses, 2014
by William Lack - Book Reviews
- Portfolio of Small Plates
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2014 Transactions (Volume XIX, Part 1)
- The Tomb and Seal of John Trillek, Bishop of Hereford: some comparative thoughts
by Elizabeth New - ‘Pause and pray with mournful heart’:
Late Medieval Clerical Monuments in Lincoln Cathedral
by David Lepine - John Waryn and his Cadaver Brass,
formerly in Menheniot Church, Cornwall
by Paul Cockerham and Nicholas Orme - The Victor of St. George’s Cay:
Commander John Ralph Moss, R.N. (1759-99)
by Michael Harris - Conservation of Brasses, 2013
by William Lack
- The Tomb and Seal of John Trillek, Bishop of Hereford: some comparative thoughts
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2013 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 5)
- Monumental Brass Society: Grant of Arms and Crest
by Thomas Woodcock - The Brass of King Christopher I at Ribe
by Jerome Bertram - The Commemorative Strategies of the Frowyks of Medieval London and Middlesex
by Jessica Freeman - Cathédrale ou Collégiale?: Monuments and Commemoration in Late Medieval Toul
by Paul Cockerham - Lettering on Small Brass Plates 1600-1850
George Thomson - Animal Creation: the Curious Brass to Thomas Rymer Jones
by Philip Whittemore
- Conservation of Brasses, 2012
by William Lack
- Monumental Brass Society: Grant of Arms and Crest
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2012 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 4)
- Obligations and Strategy: Managing Memory in the Later Medieval Parish
by Clive Burgess - Each According to their Degree: the Lost Brasses of the Thorpes of Northamptonshire
by Robert Kinsey - Embellishment and Restoration: the Barttelots and their Brasses at Stopham, Sussex
by Jerome Bertram - The Brass to the Revd. Montague Henry Noel, d. 1929,
St. Barnabas, Oxford
by David Meara - Conservation of brasses, 2011
by William Lack
- Obligations and Strategy: Managing Memory in the Later Medieval Parish
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2011 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 3)
- The Hastings Brass at Elsing: A Contextual Analysis
by Julian Luxford - The Inscriptions of the Blodwell Brass at Balsham, Cambridgeshire
by Reinhard Lamp - Jankyn Smith of Bury St. Edmunds and his Brass
by Margaret Statham and Sally Badham - The Indent of John Aylward: Glass and Brass at East Harling
by David King - Conservation of brasses, 2010
by William Lack
- The Hastings Brass at Elsing: A Contextual Analysis
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2010 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 2)
- Bishop Wyville's Brass
by Julia Boorman - Aristocratic pretension and heraldic skulduggery in fourteenth-century Shropshire: Sir Nicholas Burnell
of Acton Burnell
by Jonathan Moor - An Incised Slab Discovery in Bruges and some other
Bruges Slabs
by Ronald van Belle - The Brass of Joost van Amstel van Mijnden
by Truus van Bueren - Murdered by Greek Brigands: The Sad Story of
Frederick Vyner
by Philip Whittemore - Conservation of brasses, 2009
by William Lack
- Bishop Wyville's Brass
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2009 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 1)
- The function of St. Christopher imagery in medieval
churches, c. 1250 to c. 1525: wall-painting and brass
by Ellie Pridgeon - A fifteenth-century brass at Swithland, Leicestershire, and
the commemoration of female religious in late-medieval England
by Kelcey Wilson-Lee - Conspicuous by their absence: rethinking explanations
for the lack of brasses in medieval Wales
by Rhianydd Biebrach - The brass of Sir William d’Audley at Horseheath, Cambridgeshire
by Nigel Saul - The Coverts of Slaugham or three brasses disentangled
by Jerome Bertram and Robert Hutchinson - Villers-Vermont, France
by Ronald van Belle - Conservation of brasses, 2008
by William Lack - Reviews
- Obituary: Nancy Raymonde Briggs, M.A., F.S.A.
(1929-2009), Vice-President
by H. Martin Stuchfield - Portfolio of Small Plates
- The function of St. Christopher imagery in medieval
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2008 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 6)
- The West family of Hinton Martell, Dorset, and their monuments at Christchurch Priory
by Sally Badham - Incised Slab Discoveries at Tickhill, Yorkshire
by Patrick Farman, Peter Hacker and Sally Badham - Johannes Lüneburg, d. 1461, Katharinenkirche, Lübeck
by Reinhard Lamp - The Monument of Saint Henry of Finland: A Reassessment
by Claude Blair - The Monument of Saint Henry of Finland:
An Assessment of its Construction and Conservation
by Derrick Chivers - Conservation of Brasses, 2006-07
by William Lack - Book Review
- Portfolio of Small Plates
- Index to Volume XVII
- The West family of Hinton Martell, Dorset, and their monuments at Christchurch Priory
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2007 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 5)
- Obituary: John Coales, O.B.E., F.S.A. (1931-2007), Patron
by H. Martin Stuchfield - Patterns of Patronage: Brasses to the Cromwell-Bourchier Kinship Group
by Sally Badham - The Quatremain Mausoleum at Thame, Oxfordshire
by Kelcey Wilson-Lee - Friedrich of Saxony, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (1498-1510)
by Hans Gerd Dormagen - A Koranic Inscription in an English Church:
The Kinsley brass at Eversley, Hampshire
by Philip Whittemore - Conservation of Brasses, 2005
by William Lack - Book Review
- Portfolio of Small Plates
- Obituary: John Coales, O.B.E., F.S.A. (1931-2007), Patron
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2006 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 4)
Including:
- Two Incised Slabs from the Abbey of
Val-Saint-Lambert near Liège
by Hadrien Kockerols - The Wool Merchants and their Brasses
by Nigel Saul - Eghard I von Hanensee, d. 1405
by Reinhard Lamp - Thomas Adynet and his brass at Northleach, Gloucestershire
by Sally Badham - The world of folly: The foot panels of the Walsokne brass and the persistence of its iconography over the centuries. Part II
by Ronald Van Belle - Conservation of Brasses, 2004
by William Lack - Portfolio of Small Plates
- Two Incised Slabs from the Abbey of
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2005 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 3)
Including:
- The World of Folly: The Foot-panels of the Walsokne Brass and the Persistence of their Iconography over the Centuries. Part I
- by Ronald van Belle
- The London C Workshop
by Sally Badham - The Brass of John and Elizabeth Vampage at Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire
by Jerome Bertram -
Hermann Blankfordtby Hans-Gerd Dormagen
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Oxfordshire styles II and IIIby Jerome Bertram
- A brass to Samuel Richardson
by David Meara - Conservation of Brasses, 2003
by William Lack - Portfolio of Small Plates
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2004 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 2)
Including:
- Cast Copper-alloy Tombs and London Series B Brass Production in the late fourteenth century
by Sally Badham - The Brass of Edward, Duke of York, d. 1415,
at Fotheringhay, Northants
by Philip Whittemore - The Guildford Tomb in Chelsea Old Church
by Philip Whittemore - The Incised Slab to an Architect at
Caudebec-en-Caux, Seine-Maritime
by Paul Cockerham - Conservation of Brasses, 2001-2002
by William Lack - Portfolio of Small Plates
- Cast Copper-alloy Tombs and London Series B Brass Production in the late fourteenth century
Right: detail from the monumental brass to Margaret [Sidney, died 1503], one of the gentlewomen to Queens Elizabeth [Widville] and Elizabeth [of York], wife of Nicholas Gaynesford, one of the esquires for the body to Edward IV and Henry VII, from Carshalton, Surrey. Photo: ©Martin Stuchfield