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 me...

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.