Imago mortis : mediating images of death in late medieval culture / / by Ashby Kinch.

• Author: Kinch, Ashby.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Visualising the Middle Ages ; v. 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture , Ashby Kinch argues for the affirmative quality of late medieval death art and literature, providing a new, interdisciplinary approach to a well-known body of material. He demonstrates the surprising and effective ways that late medieval artists appropriated images of death and dying as a means to affirm their artistic, social, and political identities. The book dedicates each of its three sections to a pairing of a visual convention (deathbed scenes, the Three Living and Three Dead, and the Dance of Death) and a Middle English literary text (Hoccleve’s Lerne for to die , Audelay’s Three Dead Kings , and Lydgate’s Dance of Death ).

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1. “Yet mercie thou shal have” -- 2. Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve’s “Lerne for to Die” -- 3. Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead -- 4. Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death -- 5. “My stile I wille directe” -- 6. The Parlementaire, the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.