Overview
- Analyzes a wide variety of medieval and early-modern media, including manuscripts, prints, paintings, metalwork, textiles and funerary sculpture
- Contextualizes medieval construction of gender identity within the concept of Otherness
- Contributes significantly to the fields of art history, medieval and early modern studies, and gender studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Jew of Bourges
- Aspectu Desiderabilis
- reliquary of David
- face of Medusa
- Clare of Assisi
- gendered testimony in medieval europe
- Dieric Bouts
- Justice of Otto III
- Durer
- Feast of the Rose Garland
- Scuola dei Tedeschi
- Transi tombs
- Naked Woman Seated on a Mound
- non-biblical Jewish woman in medieval art
- anti-semitism and medieval art
- impoverished women in medieval art
- medieval attitudes towards poverty and gender
- gender and honor in middle ages
- masculine identity in medieval Europe
- Fondaco dei Tedeschi
About this book
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.
Reviews
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art
Editors: Carlee A. Bradbury, Michelle Moseley-Christian
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65049-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65048-7Published: 14 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87936-9Published: 24 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65049-4Published: 29 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 244
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medieval Literature, British and Irish Literature, History of Medieval Europe