Imago mortis : mediating images of death in late medieval culture /
Kinch, Ashby.
Imago mortis : mediating images of death in late medieval culture / by Ashby Kinch. - 1 online resource (xiv, 301 pages) - Visualising the Middle Ages, v. 9 1874-0448 ; . - Visualising the Middle Ages 9. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248670. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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 ).
9789004245815
10.1163/9789004245815 DOI
Death in art.
Death--Social aspects--History--Europe--To 1500.
Art, Medieval--History.
ART / Performance
ART / Reference
Middle Ages.
Europe--Intellectual life.
Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.
N8217.D5 / K56 2013eb
700/.45480902
Imago mortis : mediating images of death in late medieval culture / by Ashby Kinch. - 1 online resource (xiv, 301 pages) - Visualising the Middle Ages, v. 9 1874-0448 ; . - Visualising the Middle Ages 9. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248670. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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 ).
9789004245815
10.1163/9789004245815 DOI
Death in art.
Death--Social aspects--History--Europe--To 1500.
Art, Medieval--History.
ART / Performance
ART / Reference
Middle Ages.
Europe--Intellectual life.
Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.
N8217.D5 / K56 2013eb
700/.45480902