Description
Book SynopsisAmbiguous Women in Medieval Art brings together the work of seven researchers who, coming from different perspectives, and in some cases different disciplines, approach the question of ambiguity in relation to different case-studies where the represented women do not follow the ever-present dichotomy exemplified by Eve and Mary. In doing so, they demonstrate the complexities of a topic that is as contemporary as it is ancient. Through them, we can get valuable insights on the understanding and experience of gender in the past and the ways in which these experiences have shaped our own understanding of this topic.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, By Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo
- 1. The Disease Woman: A Neutral Representation of Health? by Sara Öberg Strådal
- 2. The Woman in Labour: A Twelfth-Century Navarrese Relief from the Church of San Martin de Tours, Artáiz, by Dilshat Harman
- 3. Bathsheba's Bath and the Seven Deadly Sins: A New Interpretation of a Visual Narrative Strategy in Late Medieval Books of Hours, by Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo
- 4. King Solomon's Ambiguous Wife in the Queste del Saint Graal, by Anastasija Ropa
- 5. Saint Eugenia Outside-Inside-Outside Rome: An Iconographic Continuity?, by Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky
- 6. Doubly crowned: The Public and Private Image of Two Fourteenth-Century Hungarian Queens, by Christopher Mielke
- 7. Material and Temporal Ambiguity at Santiago de Compostela: The Case of the South Portal's Woman with the Skull, by Karen Webb
