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

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

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

Inhalt

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.