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Anyone for Tennis? The Monument to Captain Gervase Scrope in St Michael's, Coventry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Jean Wilson
Jean Wilson
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Department of English, Boston University, 236 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA, and Wholeway, Harlton, Cambridge CB23 1ET, UK. E-mail: .
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Abstract

The monument to Captain Gervase Scrope was destroyed in 1940, but a rubbing survives in the Society's collections. It alludes to Real Tennis, and in doing so takes part in a debate extending from Plautus to Stephen Hawking about the attitude of the Creator to the universe, although the side it takes is, in an ecclesiastical context, unexpected.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 87 , September 2007 , pp. 357 - 364
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2007

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