TY - BOOK ID - 32777677 TI - The riddle of Jael : the history of a poxied heroine in Medieval and Renaissance art and culture PY - 2018 SN - 9789004364387 9789004364660 9004364668 9004364382 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - Renaissance KW - Medieval [European] KW - iconography KW - History of Europe KW - Art KW - Jael KW - Personnages bibliques KW - Iconography KW - heroines KW - Art, Medieval KW - Art médiéval KW - Art, Renaissance KW - Art de la Renaissance KW - Art and society KW - Themes, motives. KW - Thèmes, motifs KW - History KW - Aspect social KW - Yaël, KW - Art. KW - Thèmes, motifs. KW - Art and society. KW - Art and sociology KW - Society and art KW - Sociology and art KW - Renaissance art KW - Subjects KW - Social aspects KW - To 1599 KW - Europe. KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - Themes, motives UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32777677 AB - In The Riddle of Jael , Peter Scott Brown offers the first history of the Biblical heroine Jael in medieval and Renaissance art. Jael, who betrayed and killed the tyrant Sisera in the Book of Judges by hammering a tent peg through his brain as he slept under her care, was a blessed murderess and an especially fertile moral paradox in the art of the early modern period. Jael's representations offer insights into key religious, intellectual, and social developments in late medieval and early modern society. They reflect the influence on art of exegesis, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, humanism and moral philosophy, misogyny and the battle of the sexes, the emergence of syphilis, and the Renaissance ideal of the artist. ER -