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OverviewEnglish Gothic Misericord Carvings: History from the Bottom Up by Betsy Chunko-Dominguez is the first book to move beyond textual dependence and traditional iconographic analysis when examining misericords. It likewise builds the most thorough discussion to date of the relationship between the misericord's several potential audiences - including patron, craftsman, occupant of the seat, and modern viewer. Beyond the bounds of misericord studies, there are implications here for study of the relationship between center and margin in late medieval art; and, indeed, what constitutes 'center' and 'margin' as conceptual realms. Ultimately, this book attempts both to re-integrate the study of misericords into the study of Gothic art in general, and to re-center them in relation to our understanding of late medieval culture. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Betsy Chunko-DominguezPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 9 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.265kg ISBN: 9789004341180ISBN 10: 9004341188 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 23 March 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments vii List of Illustrations viii Notes on Permissions xi List of Abbreviations xii Introduction: History from the Bottom Up 1 1 Meaning(s) and Medieval Misericords 7 Literacy and the Viewer 9 An Iconographic Dilemma 13 Signa and Res 21 The Case for Hybridity 30 2 Violent Women and the Clerical Gaze 33 Touch and Trope 38 Wykked Wyves 45 The Clerical Gaze 51 3 The Abject and Uncanny Human Form 55 Illness and Abjection 57 Scatology and Obscaena 65 Ungodly Peoples 71 Conflated Realities 76 4 The Subject as Sign: Iconography of the Lay Classes 85 Images and Fiction 88 At Home and in the Fields 94 Folk Iconography 105 Peasants Behaving Badly 111 5 Image and Anxiety: Iconography of Hell and Damnation 121 To Partake with Devils 123 Dark Visions, Corporeal Fears 128 Doleful Realities 136 Afterword: The Vanishing Mediator 143 Appendix: Dating the Misericords of Fairford 149 Bibliography 160 Index 182ReviewsThe fabulous panoply of scenes carved into the misericords that once supported the bottoms of medieval monks and canons across England is ripe for an important new treatment, and in Betsy Chunko-Dominguez it has found a suitably erudite and appreciative investigator.[...] a succinct, pithy and broad survey of the medieval interpretive field and a brilliant application of visual analysis, an important historicisation of and corrective to a somewhat neglected subject. Gabriel Byng, Clare Hall Cambridge in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 70 (2019), 152-153 Author InformationBetsy Chunko-Dominguez, Ph.D. (2012), University of Virginia, is Professor of Art History at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her research focuses on forms of late medieval marginalia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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