Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530

Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530

Experience, Authority, Resistance

Pearson, Andrea

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2005

264

Dura

Inglês

9780754651543

15 a 20 dias

Illuminates the relationships between visual culture, faith, and gender in the courtly, monastic, and urban spheres of the early modern Burgundian Netherlands. This book identifies and explores pictorial constructions of masculinity and femininity in regard to the expectations, experiences, and practices of devotion.
Contents: Introduction: Performing gender in the Burgundian Netherlands; Authority and community in women's books of hours; Regendering the faith: books of hours, devotional portrait diptychs, and the affirmation of men; The problem of male embodiment in two diptychs from Bruges; Nuns and clerics: ambiguous authority in a devotional portrait diptych; Disrupting gender at the court of Margaret of Austria; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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