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

Author/creator Kinch, Ashby
Format Book
PublicationLeiden : Boston : Brill, 2013.
Descriptionxvi, 301 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Death in art.
Death in literature.
Art, Medieval.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Visual communication--Europe. --History. --To 1500.
Middle Ages.
Death--Social aspects. --Europe. --History. --To 1500.
Europe--Intellectual life.
Europe--Social conditions. --To 1492.

SeriesVisualising the Middle Ages, 1874-0448 ; volume 9
Visualising the Middle Ages v. 9. ^A797838
Contents Introduction: The Mediating Image of Death -- Section One. Facing Death -- "Yet mercie thou shal have" : Affirmative Visions of Dying in Illustrations of Henry Suso's "De Scientia" -- Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve's "Lerne for to Die" -- Section Two. Facing the Dead -- Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead -- Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death : Audelay's Three Dead Kings and the Lancastrian Cadaver Tomb -- Section Three. The Community of Death -- "My stile I wille directe" : Lydgate and the Bedford Workshop Reinvent the Danse Macabre -- The Parlementaire, the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre -- Epilogue: The Afterlives of Medieval Images of Death.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-295) and index.
LCCN 2012047174
ISBN9789004243699 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN9004243690 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

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