Ambiguous Women in Medieval Art
Title | Ambiguous Women in Medieval Art PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Ann Walker |
Publisher | Trivent Medieval |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-02 |
Genre | Art, Medieval |
ISBN | 9786158122207 |
Ambiguous Women in Medieval Art brings together the work of seven researchers who, coming from different perspectives, and in some cases different disciplines, approach the question of ambiguity in relation to different case-studies where the represented women do not follow the ever-present dichotomy exemplified by Eve and Mary. In doing so, they demonstrate the complexities of a topic that is as contemporary as it is ancient. Through them, we can get valuable insights on the understanding and experience of gender in the past and the ways in which these experiences have shaped our own understanding of this topic.
Ambiguous Women in Medieval Art
Title | Ambiguous Women in Medieval Art PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Ann Walker Vadillo |
Publisher | Trivent Publishing |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2019-12-31 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 6158122211 |
Ambiguous Women in Medieval Art brings together the work of seven researchers who, coming from different perspectives, and in some cases different disciplines, approach the question of ambiguity in relation to different case-studies where the represented women do not follow the ever-present dichotomy exemplified by Eve and Mary. In doing so, they demonstrate the complexities of a topic that is as contemporary as it is ancient. Through them, we can get valuable insights on the understanding and experience of gender in the past and the ways in which these experiences have shaped our own understanding of this topic.
Ambiguous Locks
Title | Ambiguous Locks PDF eBook |
Author | Roberta Milliken |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0786487925 |
It has long been said that a woman's hair is her crowning glory. Indeed, throughout history, hair has remained an important cultural symbol of femininity. In medieval art, iconic images of long, flowing locks can express sexuality, and the cutting of a woman's hair often signals her feminine misbehavior. Artists of all kinds in the Middle Ages used women's long hair to manipulate their audience's estimation of their female figures. This interdisciplinary work explores the significance of women's hair in literature and art from the medieval period through 1525, putting into historical context the ways in which hair participates in construction of the female identity.
Ambiguous Realities
Title | Ambiguous Realities PDF eBook |
Author | Carole Levin |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | European literature |
ISBN | 9780814318737 |
Examining specific literary, historical, and theological texts, the essays in Ambiguous realities illuminate a number of important issues about women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: the changes in attitude toward women, the role and status of women, the dichotomy between public and private spheres, the prescriptions for women's behavior and the image of the ideal woman, and the difference between the perceived and the actual audience of medieval and Renaissance writers.--Back cover.
Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture
Title | Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 1184 |
Release | 2012-05-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004228322 |
These volumes propose a renewed way of framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women. Today’s standard division of artist from patron is not seen in medieval inscriptions—on paintings, metalwork, embroideries, or buildings—where the most common verb is 'made' (fecit). At times this denotes the individual whose hands produced the work, but it can equally refer to the person whose donation made the undertaking possible. Here twenty-four scholars examine secular and religious art from across medieval Europe to demonstrate that a range of studies is of interest not just for a particular time and place but because, from this range, overall conclusions can be drawn for the question of medieval art history as a whole. Contributors are Mickey Abel, Glaire D. Anderson, Jane L. Carroll, Nicola Coldstream, María Elena Díez Jorge, Jaroslav Folda, Alexandra Gajewski, Loveday Lewes Gee, Melissa R. Katz, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Pierre Alain Mariaux, Therese Martin, Eileen McKiernan González, Rachel Moss, Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, Felipe Pereda, Annie Renoux, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Stefanie Seeberg, Miriam Shadis, Ellen Shortell, Loretta Vandi, and Nancy L. Wicker.
Same Bodies, Different Women
Title | Same Bodies, Different Women PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Mielke |
Publisher | Trivent Publishing |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2019-12-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 6158122238 |
This volume is a collection of essays focusing on marginalized women mostly in Central and Eastern Europe from around 1350 to 1650. "Other" women are discussed in three different categories: women whose religious practices put them on the social margins, "common women" who are in society but not of society because they are in the sex trade, and women whose occupations were reason enough to shunt them. In order to fill a gap in gender history for countries east of the Rhine River, the studies included present how official city-funded brothels in medieval Austria worked, how a princess' disability affected her life as Byzantine empress, how one unmarried Transylvanian woman who got pregnant dealt with being the center of a court case, and how enslaved women in medieval Hungary were treated as sexual property. The hope with this volume is that it will show the many interdisciplinary ways that women on the margins can be studied in this region, and to diminish the taboo of discussing this topic to begin with.
Picturing Women in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art
Title | Picturing Women in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art PDF eBook |
Author | Christa Grössinger |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Art, Early Renaissance |
ISBN | 9780719041099 |
This extensively illustrated book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of different media, but making particular use of the rich plethora of woodcuts, the author charts how the images of women changed during the period and proposes two basic categories - the Virgin and Eve, good and evil. Within these, however, we discover attitudes to sinful, foolish, married and unmarried women and the style and use of these images exposes the full extent of the misogyny entrenched in medieval society.