Imago Mortis : Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture
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| Title: | Imago Mortis : Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture |
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| 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). |
| Authors: | Ashby Kinch |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Death--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500, Death in literature, Art, Medieval, Visual communication--Europe--History--To 1500, Middle Ages, Literature, Medieval--History and criticism, Art, Medieval--History, Death in art |
| Categories: | ART / Movements / Medieval, ART / Performance |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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). |
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| ISBN: | 9789004243699 9789004245815 |
