| Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture Contributor(s): Kinch (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004243690 ISBN-13: 9789004243699 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $210.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Art | History - General - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 700.454 |
| LCCN: 2012047174 |
| Series: Visualising the Middle Ages |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.30 lbs) 318 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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). |