Holy motherhood
gender, dynasty and visual culture in the later Middle Ages
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Author
Publication
2008 - Manchester University Press, Manchester, England
Language
English
Word Count
70,500 words, Guess
Page Count
282 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveholymotherhoodge00lest
- ISBN-100719075432
- ISBN-139780719075438
- LibraryThing5936801
- Goodreads3404787
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- Library of Congress Control Number2009275751
- OCLC Control Number183147134
- Better World Books9780719075438
- Open LibraryOL23175610M
Classifications
- DDC704.94820820944
- LCCN7793.W65 L47 2008
- LCCN7949.A1
Description
"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."--Jacket.
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Series Statement
- Manchester medieval studies
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