Beholding violence in medieval and early modern Europe
By: edited by Allie Terry-Fritsch and Erin Felicia Labbie, with a foreword by W.J.T. Mitchell
Series: Visual culture in early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781409442868
Subjects: Violence in art; European Arts; Themes, motives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: beholding violence / Erin Felicia Labbie and Allie Terry-Fritsch; title: Proof in pierced flesh: Caravaggio's Doubting Thomas and the beholder of wounds in early modern Italy / Allie Terry-Fritsch; title: Giovanni Pisano's marble wounds: beholding artistic self-defense in the Pisa Cathedral pulpit / Matthew G. Shoaf; title: Beholding and touching: early modern strategies of negotiating illness / Mirella G. Pardee; title: The gap of death: passive violence in the encounter between the Three dead and the Three living / Elina Gertsman; title: Being beheld: Julian of Norwich's mystical surreal and the violence of vision / Christopher Taylor; title: Image in pain: icons, old bones and new blood / Galina Tirnanic; title: "To have the pleasure of this siege": envisioning siege warfare during the European wars of religion / Brian Sandberg; title: Theatrum mundi: performativity, violence, and metatheatre in Webster's The white devil / Lisa Dickson; title: Portia's Pauline perversion: the Merchant of Venice and Romans I / Will Stockton; title: Violent passions: plays, pawnbrokers, and the Jews of Rome, 1539 / Barbara Wisch; title: Beholding typology: the violence of recognition in Caravaggio's Sacrifice of Isaac / Erin Felicia Labbie.