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Item Number: 143965
Title: English Gothic Misericord Carvings : History from the Bottom Up
Author: Chunko-Dominguez, Betsy
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789004341180
Description: Leiden: Brill, 2017. 24cm., hardcover, 204pp. illus.

Contents: 1. Meaning(s) and Medieval Misericords - Literacy and the Viewer - An Iconographic Dilemma - Signa and Res - The Case for Hybridity ; 2. Violent Women and the Clerical Gaze - Touch and Trope - "Wykked Wyves" - The Clerical Gaze ; 3. The Abject and Uncanny Human Form - Illness and Abjection - Scatology and Obscaena - Ungodly Peoples - Conflated Realities ; 4. The Subject as Sign - Iconography of the Lay Classes - Images and Fiction - At Home and in the Fields - "Folk" Iconography - Peasants Behaving Badly ; 5. Image and Anxiety - Iconography of Hell and Damnation - To Partake with Devils - Dark Visions, Corporeal Fears - Doleful Realities ; Afterword - The Vanishing Mediator ; Appendix - Dating the Misericords of Fairford. (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 9)

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