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Item Number: 122510
Title: Imago Mortis : Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture
Author: Kinch, Ashby
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789004243699
Description: Leiden: Brill, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 384pp., 68 illus. Summary: In Imago Mortis: the Mediating Image 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 … read moreMiddle English literary text (Hoccleve’s Lerne for to die, Audelay’s Three Dead Kings, and Lydgate’s Dance of Death). (Visualising the Middle Ages, 9)
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