Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art [electronic resource] /
Bradbury, Carlee A.editor.
Moseley-Christian, Michelle.editor.
This collection examines gender and Otherness other as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting a diverse array of 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. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
This collection examines gender and Otherness other as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting a diverse array of 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. .
Literature, Medieval.
British literature.
Europe-History-476-1492.
Medieval Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
History of Medieval Europe.