Elizabeth L'Estrange

Holy motherhood

Gender, dynasty and visual culture in the later middle ages

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Produktbeschreibung

Brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry. Focuses on miniatures of the birth of the Virgin and the mothers of the Holy Kinship in Books of Hours made for aristocratic women in relation to the dynastic importance of heirs and the material culture of childbearing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 407g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087264
• ISBN-10: 0719087260
• Artikelnr.: 34744054

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth L'Estrange is a Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Birmingham

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations List of figures Preface and acknowledgements Family
trees of the houses of France, Anjou, Brittany and Burgundy Introduction
Part I Gender, agency and the interpretation of material culture 1. The
situational eye: viewing, gender and response in the later middle ages 2.
De conceptione ad partum: saints, treatises and prayers for successful
childbirth 3. The lying-in month and the rite of churching: post-partum
rituals and the material culture of childbearing Part II Manuscript case
studies from the houses of Anjou, Brittany and France 4. Holy mothers,
sainted monarchs and beata stirps: the Fitzwilliam Hours and Books of Hours
for the house of Anjou 5. Steriles fecundas fecisti: viewing and reading
holy motherhood in the manuscripts of four duchesses of Brittany Conclusion
Appendix I: prayer and translation from the Hours of Marguerite of Foix
Appendix II: prayer and translation from the Prayer Book of Anne of
Brittany Bibliography Index