Imago mortis [electronic resource] : mediating images of death in late medieval culture / by Ashby Kinch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kinch, Ashby.

Series:

Visualising the Middle Ages ; v. 9.

Visualising the Middle Ages, 1874-0448 ; vol. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Medieval--History.

Art, Medieval.

Death in art.

Death in literature.

Death--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500.

Death.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Middle Ages.

Visual communication--Europe--History--To 1500.

Visual communication.

Europe--Intellectual life.

Europe.

Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Summary:

In Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture , Ashby Kinch argues for the affirmative quality of late medieval death art and literature, providing a new, interdisciplinary approach to a well-known body of material. He demonstrates the surprising and effective ways that late medieval artists appropriated images of death and dying as a means to affirm their artistic, social, and political identities. The book dedicates each of its three sections to a pairing of a visual convention (deathbed scenes, the Three Living and Three Dead, and the Dance of Death) and a Middle English literary text (Hoccleve’s Lerne for to die , Audelay’s Three Dead Kings , and Lydgate’s Dance of Death ).

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

1. “Yet mercie thou shal have”

2. Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve’s “Lerne for to Die”

3. Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead

4. Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death

5. “My stile I wille directe”

6. The Parlementaire, the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-24581-2

OCLC:

829855634

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004245815 DOI