The New Middle Ages

Bradbury, Carlee A.; Moseley-Christian, Michelle

This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities deployed to construct gender identity. The text analyzes a vast array of medieval artworks, including Dieric Bouts’s Justice of Otto III, Albrecht Dürer’s Feast of the Rose Garland, Rembrandt van Rijn’s Naked Woman Seated on a Mound, and Renaissance-era transi tombs of French women to illuminate medieval and early modern ideas about gender identity, poverty, religion, honor, virtue, sexuality, and motherhood, among others. 

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-05-24

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783319879369

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65049-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 244