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

L'Estrange, Elizabeth

 
9780719087264: Holy Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty and Visual Culture in the Later Middle Ages
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0719087260 ISBN 13 : 9780719087264
Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2012

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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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

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Éditeur
Manchester University Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0719087260
ISBN 13 
9780719087264
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780719075438: Holy Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty and Visual Culture in the Later Middle Ages

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0719075432 ISBN 13 :  9780719075438
Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2008
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