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During the high Middle Ages in Europe, the act of looking was surrounded by superstition. It was believed to have magic power, it was able to arouse anxiety, and it was the subject of lengthy texts by both men and women. In Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages, Madeline H. Caviness interrogates twentieth-century theories of the gaze and concedes that the "male gaze"—first articulated by Laura Mulvey and a cornerstone of much feminist criticism—is useful for understanding a cultural code of patriarchy in the high Middle Ages. However, she argues, one should take into account the many varying visual modes that proliferated in the medieval era. For Caviness, an awareness of historical context places pressure upon contemporary theories like that of the "male gaze," changing their shapes and creating even richer dialogues with the past. In a series of readings, Caviness demonstrates how looking functions within the much broader contexts of language and desire. The Old Testament story of Lot yields the material with which Caviness addresses the Mulveian gaze. In the narrative and in medieval visual representations of the story, she explores the biblical proscription of and anxieties about women looking. She then turns to medieval depictions of the torture of female saints and investigates how such images were not erotic in the Romanesque abstract modes but became disturbingly sexualized and sadistic in the more graphic renditions of the Gothic. Finally, Caviness looks at the distribution of relics of female saints in relation to Lacan's notions of the abject. Here she shows how the female body is de-eroticized and re-encoded as parts become metonymies for the whole and are revered as holy objects.

Art [Medieval ] --- Art médiéval --- Femmes dans l'art --- Kunst [Middeleeuwse ] --- Medieval art --- Middeleeuwse kunst --- Vrouwen in de kunst --- Women in art --- Christian women saints in art --- Art, Medieval --- Saintes chrétiennes dans l'art --- History --- Histoire --- 7.04 --- Iconografie. Iconologie. Onderwerpen van kunstzinnige uitbeelding --- Art, Medieval. --- Women in art. --- 7.04 Iconografie. Iconologie. Onderwerpen van kunstzinnige uitbeelding --- Saintes chrétiennes dans l'art --- Art médiéval --- History. --- Femmes --- Dans l'art --- Moyen-Age --- Thèmes, motifs

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Art [Byzantine ] --- Art [Early Christian ] --- Art [Medieval ] --- Art byzantin --- Art médiéval --- Art paléochrétien --- Byzantijnse kunst --- Byzantine art --- Early christian art --- Kunst [Byzantijnse ] --- Kunst [Middeleeuwse ] --- Kunst [Vroegchristelijke ] --- Medieval art --- Middeleeuwse kunst --- Oudchristelijke kunst --- Vroegchristelijke kunst --- kunst [Oudchristelijke ] --- Art, Byzantine --- Art, Early Christian --- Art, Medieval --- Weitzmann, Kurt, --- 7.033.2 --- Early Christian art --- Christian art and symbolism --- Kunst van Byzantium; Oud-Rusland; Oud-Armenie --- Art, Byzantine, --- Art, Early Christian. --- Art, Medieval. --- 7.033.2 Kunst van Byzantium; Oud-Rusland; Oud-Armenie --- Art, Byzantine,. --- Art paléochrétien --- Art médiéval

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In the fourth century the idea arose that the Cross on which Christ was crucified had been found by Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine. Thus began a legend that would grow and flourish throughout the Middle Ages and cause the diffusion of countless splinters of holy wood. And where there is wood, there was once a tree. Could it be that the Cross was made from that most noble species, the Tree of Life? So, gathering characters along the way, the legend evolved into a tale that stretches from the Creation to the End of Time. A Heritage of Holy Wood is the first reconstruction of the iconographic and literary tradition of the Legend of the True Cross. Its broad scope encompasses relic cults, pilgrimages, travellers' tales and the Tree of Life and involves Church Fathers, crusader kings, Teutonic Knights and mendicant orders, all of which influenced the legend's depiction from its earliest representation in manuscripts, reliquaries and altarpieces, to the great monumental cycles of the high Middle Ages. If the holy wood was the medium of medieval memory, A Heritage of Holy Wood reveals the growth rings of fifteen centuries of imagery.

Holy Cross --- Art, Byzantine. --- Art, Medieval. --- Legends --- Art [Byzantine ] --- Art [Medieval ] --- Art byzantin --- Art médiéval --- Byzantijnse kunst --- Byzantine art --- Kunst [Byzantijnse ] --- Kunst [Middeleeuwse ] --- Medieval art --- Middeleeuwse kunst --- Iconography --- Christian church history --- Christian special devotions --- anno 500-1499 --- 091.31:7.04 --- 246 --- Academic collection --- 091.31:7.04 Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- Christelijke kunst en symbolisme --- Religion Art in Christianity --- Art, Byzantine --- Art, Medieval --- Sainte Croix --- Art médiéval --- Art --- Légendes --- Christian art and symbolism --- Cross --- Feast of the Cross --- Art. --- Holy Cross - Legends - Art.

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Love play or playing dead, wordplay or playing games - the notion of play inhabits all spheres of human activity. This collection of essays brings together international scholars from a range of disciplines to explore aspects of playfulness in the later European Middle Ages. From manuscript to performance and from the domestic to the doctrinal, the exuberance and ambiguity of verbal and visual play is interrogated in order to decode layers of meaning in texts and artefacts. These twelve papers celebrate the work of Elaine C. Block, whose dedicated study of misericords has, through countless articles and books, made the riches of this dizzying iconographic resource easily available to scholars for the first time. Her monumental Corpus on Medieval Misericords volumes will no doubt inform medieval scholars for generations to come, and those included in the present collection are both proud and grateful to be of the first generation to benefit from her work on this body of carvings which challengingly - and playfully - straddles thesometimes invisible line between the sacred and profane.

History of civilization --- anno 500-1499 --- Europe --- Art [Medieval ] --- Art médiéval --- Beschaving [Middeleeuwse ] --- Civilisation médiévale --- Civilization [Medieval ] --- Civilization [Medieval ]--History --- Europa--Beschaving--476-1492 --- Europe--Civilisation--476-1492 --- Europe--Civilization--476-1492 --- Kunst [Middeleeuwse ] --- Medieval art --- Medieval civilization --- Middeleeuwen--Beschaving --- Middeleeuwen--Cultuur --- Middeleeuwse beschaving --- Middeleeuwse cultuur --- Middeleeuwse kunst --- Middle Ages--Civilization --- Moyen-Age--Civilisation --- Théâtre --- --Moyen âge, --- Play --- Art and society --- Civilization, Medieval --- Art, Medieval --- Middle Ages --- History --- Social life and customs --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Recreations --- Recreation --- Amusements --- Games --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Social aspects --- Social life and customs. --- To 1500 --- Moyen âge, 476-1492 --- Play - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Art and society - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Europe - Social life and customs --- Block, Elaine C.

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Art [Christian ] --- Art [Eclesiastical ] --- Art [Medieval ] --- Art and religion --- Art chrétien --- Art ecclésiastique --- Art et religion --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Art médiéval --- Art religieux chrétien --- Art sacré --- Arts in the Church --- Beeldhouwkunst [Middeleeuwse ] --- Christelijke iconografie --- Christelijke kunst en symboliek --- Christelijke symboliek --- Christian art and symbolism --- Christian symbolism --- Ecclesiastical art --- Glasramen [Middeleeuwse ] --- Glass painting and staining [Medieval ] --- Godsdienstige kunst [Christelijke ] --- Iconografie [Christelijke ] --- Iconographie chrétienne --- Kerkelijke kunst --- Kunst [Christelijke ] --- Kunst [Godsdienstige ] [Christelijke ] --- Kunst [Kerkelijke ] --- Kunst [Middeleeuwse ] --- Kunst [Sacrale ] --- Kunst en godsdienst --- Medieval art --- Middeleeuwse kunst --- Religious art [Christian ] --- Sacrale kunst --- Sacred art --- Sculpture [Medieval ] --- Sculpture mediévale --- Symboliek [Christelijke ] --- Symbolisme chrétien --- Vitraux médiévaux --- Art, High Gothic --- Gothique rayonnant --- Gotiek. Laat-Middeleeuwse kunst --- 7.033.5 Gotiek. Laat-Middeleeuwse kunst --- Art, Medieval --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Art médiéval --- Art gothique --- ART ET SYMBOLISME CHRETIENS --- ICONOGRAPHIE --- FRANCE --- 13E SIECLE