Vision, devotion, and self-representation in late medieval art / Alexa Sand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sand, Alexa Kristen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portraits, Medieval--England.

Portraits, Medieval.

Portraits, Medieval--France.

Women--England--Portraits.

Women.

Women--France--Portraits.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--England.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France.

Prayer books--England.

Prayer books.

Prayer books--France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 408 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Vision, Devotion, & Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book investigates the 'owner portrait' in the context of late medieval devotional books primarily from France and England. These mirror-like pictures of praying book owners respond to and help develop a growing concern with visibility and self-scrutiny that characterized the religious life of the laity after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. The image of the praying book owner translated pre-existing representational strategies concerned with the authority and spiritual efficacy of pictures and books, such as the Holy Face and the donor image, into a more intimate and reflexive mode of address in Psalters and Books of Hours created for lay users. Alexa Sand demonstrates how this transformation had profound implications for devotional practices and for the performance of gender and class identity in the striving, aristocratic world of late medieval France and England.

Contents:

Introduction: self-reflection, devotion, and vision in the image of the book owner at prayer

Saving face: the Veronica and the Visio Dei

From Memoria to Visio: revising the donor

Framing vision: the image of the book owner and the reflexive mode of seeing

Domesticating devotion: body, space, and self

Conclusion: Power and the portrait: negotiating gender.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89142-1

1-107-72784-7

1-107-73020-1

1-107-73195-X

1-139-42476-9

1-107-72383-3

1-107-72844-4

OCLC:

869735803