Imago Mortis
Subtitle: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9789004245815
Subjects: Death in literature; Death in art; Art, medieval; Literature, medieval, history and criticism; Visual communication; Middle ages; Europe, intellectual life; Europe, social conditions; Death, social aspects
Description: In Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture, Ashby Kinch argues that late medieval artists, writers, and patrons creatively adapted conventional death iconography in ways that ultimately affirm theiir artistic, social and political identities.