{"product_id":"picturing-death-1200-1600-9789004430020","title":"Picturing Death 1200–1600","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePicturing Death: 1200–1600 explores the visual culture of mortality over the course of four centuries that witnessed a remarkable flourishing of imagery focused on the themes of death, dying, and the afterlife. In doing so, this volume sheds light on issues that unite two periods—the Middle Ages and the Renaissance—that are often understood as diametrically opposed. The studies collected here cover a broad visual terrain, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture. Taken together, they present a picture of the ways that images have helped humans understand their own mortality, and have incorporated the deceased into the communities of the living.    Contributors: Jessica Barker, Katherine Boivin, Peter Bovenmyer, Xavier Dectot, Maja Dujakovic, Brigit Ferguson, Alison C. Fleming, Fredrika Jacobs, Henrike C. Lange, Robert Marcoux, Walter S. Melion, Stephen Perkinson, Johanna Scheel, Mary Silcox, Judith Steinhoff, and Noa Turel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Introduction   Stephen Perkinson and Noa Turel    part 1: Housing the Dead  1 Looking beyond the Face: Tomb Effigies and the Medieval Commemoration of the Dead   Robert Marcoux    2 Portraiture, Projection, Perfection: The Multiple Effigies of Enrico Scrovegni   Henrike Christiane Lange    3 Plorans ploravit in nocte: The Birth of the Figure of the Pleurant in Tomb Sculpture   Xavier Dectot    4 Gendering Prayer in Trecento Florence: Tomb Paintings in Santa Croce and San Remigio   Judith Steinhoff    5 Two-Story Charnel-House Chapels and the Space of Death in the Medieval City   Katherine M. Boivin    part 2: Mortal Anxieties and Living Paradoxes  6 The Living Dead and the Joy of the Crucifixion   Brigit G. Ferguson    7 The Speaking Tomb: Ventriloquizing the Voices of the Dead   Jessica Barker    8 Feeding Worms: The Theological Paradox of the Decaying Body and Its Depictions in the Context of Prayer and Devotion   Johanna Scheel    9 Not Quite Dead: Imaging the Miracle of Infant Resuscitation   Fredrika H. Jacobs    part 3: The Macabre, Instrumentalized  10 Dissecting for the King: Guido da Vigevano and the Anatomy of Death   Peter Bovenmyer    11 Covert Apotheoses: Archbishop Henry Chichele’s Tomb and the Vocational Logic of Early Transis   Noa Turel    12 Into Print: Early Illustrated Books and the Reframing of the Danse Macabre   Maja Dujakovic    13 Death Commodified: Macabre Imagery on Luxury Objects, c. 1500   Stephen Perkinson    part 4: Departure and Persistence  14 Coemeterium Schola: The Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David’s Veridicus Christianus   Walter S. Melion    15 A Protestant Reconceptualization of Images of Death and the Afterlife in Stephen Bateman’s A Christall Glasse   Mary V. Silcox    16 Shifting Role Models within the Society of Jesus: The Abandonment of Grisly Martyrdom Images c. 1600   Alison C. Fleming    Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210800226647,"sku":"9789004430020","price":152.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/picturing-death-1200-1600-9789004430020","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}