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

  • Kinch, Ashby.
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Leiden, Boston : Brill, 2013.

Physical description

xvi, 301 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-295) and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9789004243699
  • 9004243690