Beholding violence in medieval and early modern Europe / edited by Allie Terry-Fritsch and Erin Felicia Labbie ; with a foreword by W.J.T. Mitchell.

Other author Terry-Fritsch, Allie.
Other author Labbie, Erin Felicia.
Format Book
Publication InfoFarnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012], ♭2012.
Descriptionxxviii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Violence in art.
Arts, European--Themes, motives.

SeriesVisual culture in early modernity
Visual culture in early modernity. ^A783100
Contents Introduction: beholding violence / Erin Felicia Labbie and Allie Terry-Fritsch -- Proof in pierced flesh: Caravaggio's Doubting Thomas and the beholder of wounds in early modern Italy / Allie Terry-Fritsch -- Giovanni Pisano's marble wounds: beholding artistic self-defense in the Pisa Cathedral pulpit / Matthew G. Shoaf -- Beholding and touching: early modern strategies of negotiating illness / Mirella G. Pardee -- The gap of death: passive violence in the encounter between the Three dead and the Three living / Elina Gertsman -- Being beheld: Julian of Norwich's mystical surreal and the violence of vision / Christopher Taylor -- Image in pain: icons, old bones and new blood / Galina Tirnanic -- "To have the pleasure of this siege": envisioning siege warfare during the European wars of religion / Brian Sandberg -- Theatrum mundi: performativity, violence, and metatheatre in Webster's The white devil / Lisa Dickson -- Portia's Pauline perversion: the Merchant of Venice and Romans I / Will Stockton -- Violent passions: plays, pawnbrokers, and the Jews of Rome, 1539 / Barbara Wisch -- Beholding typology: the violence of recognition in Caravaggio's Sacrifice of Isaac / Erin Felicia Labbie.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011050162
ISBN9781409442868 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1409442861 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks NX650 .V5 B44 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold