Imago Mortis

Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-24369-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1340 g

Reihe: Visualising the Middle Ages

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).

Zielgruppe

All interested in death art (Three Living and Three Dead, the Dance of Death), late Middle English literature, and text-image relationships in medieval art, including theory of the image.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kinch, Ashby

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures. vii
Preface. xiii

Introduction: The Mediating Image of Death. 1

Section One: Facing Death
1: “Yet mercie thou shal have”: Affirmative Visions of Dying in Illustrations of Henry Suso’s “De Scientia”. 35
2: Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve’s “Lerne for to Die”. 69

Section Two: Facing the Dead
3: Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead. 109
4: Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death: Audelay’s Three Dead Kings and the Lancastrian Cadaver Tomb. 145

Section Three: The Community of Death
5: “My stile I wille directe”: Lydgate and the Bedford Workshop Reinvent the Danse Macabre. 185
6: The Parlementaire, the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre. 227

Epilogue: The Afterlives of Medieval Images of Death. 261

Bibliography. 281
Index. 297

Über Autor(innen)

Kinch, Ashby
Ashby Kinch, Ph.D (2000) is Associate Professor of English at The University of Montana. He has co-edited a book and published several articles on Alain Chartier, as well as numerous articles on medieval death art and Middle English literature.