Holy Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty and Visual Culture in the Later Middle Ages - Couverture rigide

L'Estrange, Elizabeth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719075432 ISBN 13 : 9780719075438

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This study brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry, showing how images worked not only to script and maintain gender and social roles within patriarchal society, but also to offer viewers ways of managing those roles. Some of the manuscripts discussed are relatively unknown and their images and texts are made available to readers for the first time.

Through an adaptation of Baxandall’s ‘period eye’, the study considers the many ‘cognitive habits’ acquired by aristocratic lay women – and men – through familiarity with prayers for childbirth, the lying-in ceremony and the rite of churching. It then uses this methodology to interpret the images and prayers in six bespoke manuscripts, including the Fitzwilliam Hours and the Hours of Marguerite of Foix.

The book will appeal to advanced students, academics and researchers of Art History, Illuminated Manuscripts, Medieval History and Gender Studies.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth L’Estrange is an FNRS Post-Doctoral Fellow in History of Art at the University of Liège in Belgium

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719075432
• ISBN 13: 9780719075438
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible