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Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art / edited by Carlee A. Bradbury, Michelle Moseley-Christian.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The New Middle Ages, 2945-5944
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Medieval.
- European literature.
- Europe--History--476-1492.
- Europe.
- Medieval Literature.
- European Literature.
- History of Medieval Europe.
- Local Subjects:
- Medieval Literature.
- European Literature.
- History of Medieval Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XVII, 244 p. 26 illus.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2017.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- Summary:
- This collection examines gender and Otherness other as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting a diverse array of up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities deployed to construct gender identity. The text analyzes a vast array of medieval artworks, including Dieric Bouts's Justice of Otto III, Albrecht Dürer's Feast of the Rose Garland, Rembrandt van Rijn's Naked Woman Seated on a Mound, and Renaissance-era transi tombs of French women to illuminate medieval and early modern ideas about gender identity, poverty, religion honor, virtue, sexuality, and motherhood, among others. .
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- "Aspectu Desiderabilis": A Thirteenth Century Reliquary of David with the Face of Medusa
- Picturing Maternal Anxiety in the Miracle of the Jew of Bourges
- Gender and Poverty in Late Medieval Art
- Forms of Gendered Testimony in Dieric Bouts's Justice of Otto III
- "In Love and Faithfulness Toward One Another Like Brothers." Dürer's Feast of the Rose Garland and the Scuola dei Tedeschi as Strategies for Mediating Masculine Identity
- "The monster, death, becomes pregnant": Female Transi Tombs from Renaissance France
- Embodying Gluttony as Women's Wildness: Rembrandt's Naked Woman Seated on a Mound.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783319650494
- 3319650491
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