The Dance Of Death In Late Medieval And Renaissance Europe

Author : Andrea Kiss,Kathleen Pribyl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429956836

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The Dance of Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe by Andrea Kiss,Kathleen Pribyl Pdf

This volume investigates environmental and political crises that occurred in Europe during the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Period, and considers their effects on people’s lives. At this time, the fragile human existence was imagined as a ‘Dance of Death’, where anyone, regardless of social status or age, could perish unexpectedly. This book covers events ranging from cooling temperatures and the onset of the Little Ice Age, to the frequent occurrence of epidemic disease, pest infestations, food shortages and famines. Covering the mid-fourteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries, this collection of essays considers a range of countries between Iceland (to the north), Italy (to the south), France (to the west) and the westernmost parts of Russia (to the east). This wide-reaching volume considers how deeply climate variability and changes affected and changed society in the late medieval to early modern period, and asks what factors, other than climate, interfered in the development of environmental stress and socio-economic crises. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Environmental and Climate History, Environmental Humanities, Medieval and Early Modern History and Historical Geography, as well as Climate Change and Environmental Sciences.

Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822038709457

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The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages by Elina Gertsman Pdf

Elina Gertsman's multifaceted study introduces readers to the imagery and texts of the Dance of Death, an extraordinary subject that first emerged in western European art and literature in the late medieval era. Conceived from the start as an inherently public image, simultaneously intensely personal and widely accessible, the medieval Dance of Death proclaimed the inevitability of death and declared the futility of human ambition. Gertsman inquires into the theological, socio-historic, literary, and artistic contexts of the Dance of Death, exploring it as a site of interaction between text, image, and beholder. Pulling together a wide variety of sources and drawing attention to those images that have slipped through the cracks of the art historical canon, Gertsman examines the visual, textual, aural, pastoral, and performative discourses that informed the creation and reception of the Dance of Death, and proposes different modes of viewing for several paintings, each of which invited the beholder to participate in an active, kinesthetic experience.

Author : Stefanie Knöll,Sophie Oosterwijk
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443879224

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Mixed Metaphors by Stefanie Knöll,Sophie Oosterwijk Pdf

This groundbreaking collection of essays by a host of international authorities addresses the many aspects of the Danse Macabre, a subject that has been too often overlooked in Anglo-American scholarship. The Danse was once a major motif that occurred in many different media and spread across Europe in the course of the fifteenth century, from France to England, Germany, Scandinavia, Poland, Spain, Italy and Istria. Yet the Danse is hard to define because it mixes metaphors, such as dance, di ...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004358331

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Dealing With The Dead by Anonim Pdf

Death was a constant, visible presence in medieval and renaissance Europe. Yet, the acknowledgement of death did not necessarily amount to an acceptance of its finality. Whether they were commoners, clergy, aristocrats, or kings, the dead continued to function literally as integrated members of their communities long after they were laid to rest in their graves. From stories of revenants bringing pleas from Purgatory to the living, to the practical uses and regulation of burial space; from the tradition of the ars moriendi, to the depiction of death on the stage; and from the making of martyrs, to funerals for the rich and poor, this volume examines how communities dealt with their dead as continual, albeit non-living members. Contributors are Jill Clements, Libby Escobedo, Hilary Fox, Sonsoles Garcia, Stephen Gordon, Melissa Herman, Mary Leech, Nikki Malain, Kathryn Maud, Justin Noetzel, Anthony Perron, Martina Saltamacchia, Thea Tomaini, Wendy Turner, and Christina Welch

Author : Joelle Rollo-Koster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315466842

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Death in Medieval Europe by Joelle Rollo-Koster Pdf

Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the world of the living in the Middle Ages. Across ten chapters, the articles in this volume survey the cultural effects of death. This volume explores overarching topics such as burials, commemorations, revenants, mourning practices and funerals, capital punishment, suspiscious death, and death registrations using case studies from across Europe including England, Iceland, and Spain. Together these chapters discuss how death was ritualised and choreographed, but also how it was expressed in writing throughout various documentary sources including wills and death registries. In each instance, records are analysed through a cultural framework to better understand the importance of the authors of death and their audience. Drawing together and building upon the latest scholarship, this book is essential reading for all students and academics of death in the medieval period.

Author : Bruce Gordon,Peter Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521645182

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The Place of the Dead by Bruce Gordon,Peter Marshall Pdf

This volume of essays provides a comprehensive treatment of a very significant component of the societies of late medieval and early modern Europe: the dead. It argues that to contemporaries the 'placing' of the dead, in physical, spiritual and social terms, was a vitally important exercise, and one which often involved conflict and complex negotiation. The contributions range widely geographically, from Scotland to Transylvania, and address a spectrum of themes: attitudes towards the corpse, patterns of burial, forms of commemoration, the treatment of dead infants, the nature of the afterlife and ghosts. Individually the essays help to illuminate several current historiographical concerns: the significance of the Black Death, the impact of the protestant and catholic Reformations, and interactions between 'elite' and 'popular' culture. Collectively, by exploring the social and cultural meanings of attitudes towards the dead, they provide insight into the way these past societies understood themselves.

Author : Hans Holbein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Dance of Death
ISBN : NYPL:33433082298138

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The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein Pdf

Author : Paul Binski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801433150

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Medieval Death by Paul Binski Pdf

In this richly illustrated volume, Paul Binski provides an absorbing account of the social, theological, and cultural issues involved in death and dying in Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the early sixteenth century. He draws on textual, archaeological, and art historical sources to examine pagan and Christian attitudes toward the dead, the aesthetics of death and the body, burial ritual, and mortuary practice. Illustrated throughout with fascinating and sometimes disturbing images, Binski's account weaves together close readings of a variety of medieval thinkers. He discusses the impact of the Black Death on late medieval art and examines the development of the medieval tomb, showing the changing attitudes toward the commemoration of the dead between late antiquity and the late Middle Ages. In one chapter, Binski analyzes macabre themes in art and literature, including the Dance of Death, which reflect the medieval obsession with notions of humility, penitence, and the dangers of bodily corruption. In another, he studies the progress of the soul after death through the powerful descriptions of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory in Dante and other writers and through portrayals of the Last Judgment and the Apocalypse in sculpture and large-scale painting.

Author : Hans Holbein
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780141396835

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The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein Pdf

A new departure in Penguin Classics: a book containing one of the greatest of all Renaissance woodcut sequences - Holbein's bravura danse macabre One of Holbein's first great triumphs, The Dance of Death is an incomparable sequence of tiny woodcuts showing the folly of human greed and pride, with each image packed with drama, wit and horror as a skeleton mocks and terrifies everyone from the emperor to a ploughman. Taking full advantage of the new literary culture of the early 16th century, The Dance of Death took an old medieval theme and made it new. This edition of The Dance of Death reproduces a complete set from the British Museum, with many details highlighted and examples of other works in this grisly field. Ulinka Rublack introduces the woodcuts with a remarkable essay on the late medieval danse macabre and the world Holbein lived in.

Author : Ashby Kinch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004245815

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Imago Mortis by Ashby Kinch Pdf

In Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture, Ashby Kinch argues for the affirmative quality of late medieval death art and literature, providing a new, interdisciplinary approach to a well-known body of material. He demonstrates the surprising and effective ways that late medieval artists appropriated images of death and dying as a means to affirm their artistic, social, and political identities. The book dedicates each of its three sections to a pairing of a visual convention (deathbed scenes, the Three Living and Three Dead, and the Dance of Death) and a Middle English literary text (Hoccleve’s Lerne for to die, Audelay’s Three Dead Kings, and Lydgate’s Dance of Death).

Author : Francis Douce
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547223672

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The Dance of Death by Francis Douce Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Dance of Death" (Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein) by Francis Douce. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004442603

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John Lydgate, The Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse Macabre by Anonim Pdf

This book combines a scholarly edition of Lydgate’s Dance of Death and the French Danse Macabre poem, and discusses their wider context and historical circumstances of their creation, authorship and visualisation.

Author : Clifton C. Olds,Ralph G. Williams,William R. Levin,University of Michigan. Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015021491835

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Images of Love and Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art by Clifton C. Olds,Ralph G. Williams,William R. Levin,University of Michigan. Museum of Art Pdf

Author : Philip Booth,Elizabeth Tingle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004443433

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A Companion to Death, Burial, and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c. 1300–1700 by Philip Booth,Elizabeth Tingle Pdf

This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe from ca.1300-1700.

Author : Peter Marshall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Reformation
ISBN : 9780192895264

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The Oxford History of the Reformation by Peter Marshall Pdf

'a vital resource'TLS'Compelling collection'Literary ReviewThe Reformation was a seismic event in history whose consequences are still unfolding in Europe and across the world.Martin Luther's protests against the marketing of indulgences in 1517 were part of a long-standing pattern of calls for reform in the Christian Church. But they rapidly took a radical and unexpected turn, engulfing first Germany, and then Europe, in furious arguments about how God's will was to be'saved'.However, these debates did not remain confined to a narrow sphere of theology. They came to reshape politics and international relations; social, cultural, and artistic developments; relations between the sexes; and the patterns and performances of everyday life. They were also the stimulus forChristianity's transformation into a truly global religion, as agents of the Roman Catholic Church sought to compensate for losses in Europe with new conversions in Asia and the Americas.Covering both Protestant and Catholic reform movements, in Europe and across the wider world, this compact volume tells the story of the Reformation from its immediate, explosive beginnings, through to its profound longer-term consequences and legacy for the modern world. The story is not one of aninevitable triumph of liberty over oppression, enlightenment over ignorance. Rather, it tells how a multitude of rival groups and individuals, with or without the support of political power, strove after visions of 'reform'. And how, in spite of themselves, they laid the foundations for the pluraland conflicted world we now inhabit.