Holy motherhood gender, dynasty and visual culture in the later Middle Ages

"This book brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry. By focusing on images of St Anne and the Holy Kinship in Books of Hours made for aristocratic women in relation to the dynastic importance of heirs, it reassesses the role of the female vi...

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1. Verfasser: L'Estrange, Elizabeth (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Manchester u.a. Manchester Univ. Press 2008
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Manchester medieval studies
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Zusammenfassung:"This book brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry. By focusing on images of St Anne and the Holy Kinship in Books of Hours made for aristocratic women in relation to the dynastic importance of heirs, it reassesses the role of the female viewer as an active agent in the interpretation of pictures and popular devotional rites." "Holy Motherhood combines an innovative methodology that draws on art-historical and contemporary gender studies with empirical evidence from fifteenth-century manuscripts, to show how images worked, not only to script and maintain gender and social roles within patriarchal society, but also to offer viewers ways of managing those roles." "The book will appeal to advanced students, academics and researchers of Art History, Illuminated Manuscripts, Medieval History and Gender Studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index
Beschreibung:XVII, 282 S.
Ill., graph. Darst.
22 cm
ISBN:9780719075438
978-0-7190-7543-8
0719075432
0-7190-7543-2