LEADER 04105oam 2200673 450 001 9910794584203321 005 20230630000105.0 010 $a0-271-08767-6 010 $a0-271-08769-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271087696 035 $a(CKB)4100000011758035 035 $a(OCoLC)1237403314 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse97331 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6475450 035 $a(DE-B1597)584191 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271087696 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011758035 100 $a20210702d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVisual aggression $eimages of martyrdom in late medieval Germany /$fAssaf Pinkus 210 1$aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$cThe Pennsylvania State University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource 215 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-271-08379-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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 -- Index 330 $aWhy 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. 606 $aViolence in art 610 $aGothic painting. 610 $aGothic sculpture. 610 $acourtly literature. 610 $agender. 610 $alegal and juridical history. 610 $amartyrdom. 610 $amateriality. 610 $aphilosophy. 610 $aresponse theory. 610 $arites of punishment. 610 $asomaesthetics. 610 $atheology. 610 $atortures. 610 $aviolence. 610 $avisual culture. 615 0$aViolence in art. 676 $a700.4552 686 $aLK 83340$2rvk 700 $aPinkus$b Assaf$01511930 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794584203321 996 $aVisual aggression$93745528 997 $aUNINA