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Book SynopsisSpecial issue focusing on violence in fifteenth-century life, text, and image: warfare and justice, violence in family and milieu (court, town, village, and forest), hagiography, ethnicity and xenophobia, gender relations and sexual violence, brutality on the stage, and the relation of text and image in the depiction of violence. Founded in 1977 as the publication organ for the Fifteenth-Century Symposium, Fifteenth-Century Studies has appeared annually since then. It publishes essays on all aspects of life in the fifteenth century, including literature, drama, history, philosophy, art, music, religion, science, and ritual and custom. The editors strive to do justice to the most contested medieval century, a period that has long been the stepchild of research. The fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues: some scholars dispute, in fact, whether it belonged to the middle ages at all, arguing that it was a period of transition, a passage to modern times. At issue, therefore, is the very tenor of an age that stood under the influence of Gutenberg, Columbus, the Devotio Moderna,, and Humanism. Volume 27 is a special issue offering a selection of outstanding papers on violence that will interest students of medieval history and the early Renaissance, the humanities, art history, sociology, anthropology, and even the general reader. The articles highlight warfare and justice, violence in family and milieu (court, town, village,and forest), hagiography, ethnicity and xenophobia, gender relations and sexual violence, brutality on the stage, and the relation of text and image in the depiction of violence. Edelgard E. DuBruck is professor in theModern Languages Department at Marygrove College in Detroit; Yael Even is associate professor of Art and Art History at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
Table of ContentsPreface - Edelgard E. DuBruck Introduction - Yael Even Spectator Responses to an Image of Violence: Seeing Apollonia - Marla Carlson Der ernsthafte König oder die Hölle schon auf Erden: Gewalt im Dienste des Seelenheils - Marianne Derron Lazarus's Vision of Hell: A Significant Passage in Late-Medieval Passion Plays - Edelgard E. DuBruck Violence and Late-Medieval Justice - Edelgard E. DuBruck La noblesse face à la violence: arrestations, exécutions et assassinats dans les Chroniques de Jean Froissart commandées par Louis de Gruuthuse (Paris, B.N.F., mss fr. 2643-46)commandées par Louis de Gruuthuse - Olivier Ellena The Music of the Medieval Body in Pain - Jody Enders The Emergence of Sexual Violence in Quattrocento Florentine Art - Yael Even Some Lesser-Known Ladies of Public Art: On Women and Lions - Yael Even The Self in the Eyes of the Other: Creating Violent Expectations in Late-Medieval German Drama - Matthew Z. Heintzelman Cleansing the Social Body: Andrea Mantegna's Judith and the Moor (1490-1505) - Carol Janson Aggression and Annihilation: Spanish Sentimental Romances and the Legends of the Saints - Claudia Kruells-Hepermann Der Malleus Maleficarum (1487) und die Hexenverfolgung in Deutschland - Ina Lommatzsch "For They Know Not What They Do": Violence in Medieval Passion Iconography - Robert Mills Zur Bedeutung von Gewalt in der Reynaert-Epik des 15. Jahrhunderts - Rita Schlusemann Terror and Laughter in the Images of the Wild Man: The Case of the 1489 Valentin et Orson - Shira Schwam-Baird Rereading Rape in Two Versions of La Fille du comte de Pontieua - Nancy E Virtue The French Kill Their King: The Assassination of Childeric II in Late-Medieval French Historiography - Sanford Zale
