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UNINA9910819846403321 |
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Autore |
Kinch Ashby |
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Titolo |
Imago mortis [[electronic resource] ] : mediating images of death in late medieval culture / / by Ashby Kinch |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Visualising the Middle Ages, , 1874-0448 ; ; vol. 9 |
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Disciplina |
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Art, Medieval - History |
Death in art |
Death in literature |
Death - Social aspects - Europe - History - To 1500 |
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism |
Middle Ages |
Visual communication - Europe - History - To 1500 |
Europe Intellectual life |
Europe Social conditions To 1492 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1. “Yet mercie thou shal have” -- 2. Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve’s “Lerne for to Die” -- 3. Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead -- 4. Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death -- 5. “My stile I wille directe” -- 6. The Parlementaire, the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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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