04105oam 2200673 450 991081865060332120230630000105.00-271-08767-60-271-08769-210.1515/9780271087696(CKB)4100000011758035(OCoLC)1237403314(MdBmJHUP)muse97331(MiAaPQ)EBC6475450(DE-B1597)584191(DE-B1597)9780271087696(EXLCZ)99410000001175803520210702d2021 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierVisual aggression images of martyrdom in late medieval Germany /Assaf PinkusUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :The Pennsylvania State University Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (1 online resource 215 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-271-08379-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: Visual Rhetoric -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Between Theological and Juridical Positions -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: Bodily Imagination, Imagined Bodies -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Eroticized and Sexualized Bodies -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: The Body Reincarnated -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexWhy does a society seek out images of violence? What can the consumption of violent imagery teach us about the history of violence and the ways in which it has been represented and understood? Assaf Pinkus considers these questions within the context of what he calls galleries of violence, the torment imagery that flourished in German-speaking regions during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Exploring these images and the visceral bodily responses that they produced in their viewers, Pinkus argues that the new visual discourse on violence was a watershed in premodern conceptualizations of selfhood.Images of martyrdom in late medieval Germany reveal a strikingly brutal parade of passion: severed heads, split skulls, mutilated organs, extracted fingernails and teeth, and myriad other torments. Stripped from their devotional context and presented simply as brutal acts, these portrayals assailed viewers’ bodies and minds so violently that they amounted to what Pinkus describes as “visual aggressions.” Addressing contemporary discourses on violence and cruelty, the aesthetics of violence, and the eroticism of the tortured body, Pinkus ties these galleries of violence to larger cultural concerns about the ethics of violence and bodily integrity in the conceptualization of early modern personhood.Innovative and convincing, this study heralds a fundamental shift in the scholarly conversation about premodern violence, moving from a focus on the imitatio Christi and the liturgy of punishment to the notion of violence as a moral problem in an ethical system. Scholars of medieval and early modern art, history, and literature will welcome and engage with Pinkus’s research for years to come.Violence in artGothic painting.Gothic sculpture.courtly literature.gender.legal and juridical history.martyrdom.materiality.philosophy.response theory.rites of punishment.somaesthetics.theology.tortures.violence.visual culture.Violence in art.700.4552LK 83340rvkPinkus Assaf1707205MiAaPQMiAaPQUtOrBLWBOOK9910818650603321Visual aggression4095229UNINA