Imago Mortis
Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture
Biographical note
Ashby Kinch, Ph.D (2000) is Associate Professor of English at The University of Montana. He has co-edited a book and published several articles on Alain Chartier, as well as numerous articles on medieval death art and Middle English literature.
Readership
All interested in death art (Three Living and Three Dead, the Dance of Death), late Middle English literature, and text-image relationships in medieval art, including theory of the image.
Table of contents
List of Figures ... vii
Preface ... xiii
Introduction: The Mediating Image of Death ... 1
Section One: Facing Death
1: “Yet mercie thou shal have”: Affirmative Visions of Dying in Illustrations of Henry Suso’s “De Scientia” ... 35
2: Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve’s “Lerne for to Die” ... 69
Section Two: Facing the Dead
3: Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead ... 109
4: Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death: Audelay’s Three Dead Kings and the Lancastrian Cadaver Tomb ... 145
Section Three: The Community of Death
5: “My stile I wille directe”: Lydgate and the Bedford Workshop Reinvent the Danse Macabre ... 185
6: The Parlementaire , the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre ... 227
Epilogue: The Afterlives of Medieval Images of Death ... 261
Bibliography ... 281
Index ... 297
Preface ... xiii
Introduction: The Mediating Image of Death ... 1
Section One: Facing Death
1: “Yet mercie thou shal have”: Affirmative Visions of Dying in Illustrations of Henry Suso’s “De Scientia” ... 35
2: Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve’s “Lerne for to Die” ... 69
Section Two: Facing the Dead
3: Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead ... 109
4: Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death: Audelay’s Three Dead Kings and the Lancastrian Cadaver Tomb ... 145
Section Three: The Community of Death
5: “My stile I wille directe”: Lydgate and the Bedford Workshop Reinvent the Danse Macabre ... 185
6: The Parlementaire , the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre ... 227
Epilogue: The Afterlives of Medieval Images of Death ... 261
Bibliography ... 281
Index ... 297
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