Beholding violence in medieval and early modern Europe / edited by Allie Terry-Fritsch and Erin Felicia Labbie ; with a foreword by W.J.T. Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Terry-Fritsch, Allie.

Labbie, Erin Felicia.

Series:

Visual culture in early modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence in art.

Arts, European--Themes, motives.

Arts, European.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]

Contents:

Introduction: beholding violence / Erin Felicia Labbie and Allie Terry-Fritsch

Proof in pierced flesh: Caravaggio's Doubting Thomas and the beholder of wounds in early modern Italy / Allie Terry-Fritsch

Giovanni Pisano's marble wounds: beholding artistic self-defense in the Pisa Cathedral pulpit / Matthew G. Shoaf

Beholding and touching: early modern strategies of negotiating illness / Mirella G. Pardee

The gap of death: passive violence in the encounter between the Three dead and the Three living / Elina Gertsman

Being beheld: Julian of Norwich's mystical surreal and the violence of vision / Christopher Taylor

Image in pain: icons, old bones and new blood / Galina Tirnanic

"To have the pleasure of this siege": envisioning siege warfare during the European wars of religion / Brian Sandberg

Theatrum mundi: performativity, violence, and metatheatre in Webster's The white devil / Lisa Dickson

Portia's Pauline perversion: the Merchant of Venice and Romans I / Will Stockton

Violent passions: plays, pawnbrokers, and the Jews of Rome, 1539 / Barbara Wisch

Beholding typology: the violence of recognition in Caravaggio's Sacrifice of Isaac / Erin Felicia Labbie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409442868

1409442861

OCLC:

768480342