Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art
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Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art

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Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art

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This book investigates the 'owner portrait' in the context of late medieval devotional books primarily from France and England. These mirror-like pictures of praying book owners respond to and help develop a growing concern with visibility and self-scrutiny that characterized the religious life of the laity after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. The image of the praying book owner translated pre-existing representational strategies concerned with the authority and spiritual efficacy of pictures and books, such as the Holy Face and the donor image, into a more intimate and reflexive mode of address in Psalters and Books of Hours created for lay users. Alexa Sand demonstrates how this transformation had profound implications for devotional practices and for the performance of gender and class identity in the striving, aristocratic world of late medieval France and England.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
eBook ISBN
9781107722996
Topic
History
Subtopic
European History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Self-Reflection, Devotion, and Vision in the Image of the Book Owner at Prayer
  9. Chapter One Saving Face: The Veronica and the Visio Dei
  10. Chapter Two From Memoria to Visio: Revising the Donor
  11. Chapter Three Framing Vision: The Image of the Book Owner and the Reflexive Mode of Seeing
  12. Chapter Four Domesticating Devotion: Body, Space, and Self
  13. Conclusion: Power and the Portrait: Negotiating Gender
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Plates