Overview

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. 

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Author:   Carlee A. Bradbury ,  Michelle Moseley-Christian
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   3.451kg
ISBN:  

9783319879369

ISBN 10:   3319879367
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   24 May 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction .- “Aspectu Desiderabilis”: A Thirteenth Century Reliquary of David with the Face of Medusa.- Picturing Maternal Anxiety in the Miracle of the Jew of Bourges.- Gender and Poverty in Late Medieval Art.- Forms of Gendered Testimony in Dieric Bouts’s Justice of Otto III.- “In Love and Faithfulness Toward One Another Like Brothers.” Dürer’s Feast of the Rose Garland and the Scuola dei Tedeschi as Strategies for Mediating Masculine Identity.- “The monster, death, becomes pregnant”: Female Transi Tombs from Renaissance France.- Embodying Gluttony as Women’s Wildness:  Rembrandt’s Naked Woman Seated on a Mound.

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“The volume … summarizes the state of research and outlines the major theoretical issues in considering the intersection of gender, ‘otherness,’ and visual culture. … it should become a desiratum for scholars interested in gender.” (Diane Wolfthal, Early Modern Women Journal, Vol. 13 (2), 2019)

The volume ... summarizes the state of research and outlines the major theoretical issues in considering the intersection of gender, `otherness,' and visual culture. ... it should become a desiratum for scholars interested in gender. (Diane Wolfthal, Early Modern Women Journal, Vol. 13 (2), 2019)

Author Information

Carlee A. Bradbury is Associate Professor of Art History at Radford University. Michelle Moseley-Christian is Associate Professor of Art History at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 

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