Bradbury C.A., Moseley-Christian M. (Eds.) Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art

Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — xviii, 244 p. — (The New Middle Ages). — ISBN 3-319-65048-3, 978-3-319-65048-7, 978-3-319-65049-4.This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities deployed to construct gender identity. The text analyzes a vast array of medieval artworks, including Dieric Bouts’s Justice of Otto III, Albrecht Dürer’s Feast of the Rose Garland, Rembrandt van Rijn’s Naked Woman Seated on a Mound, and Renaissance-era transi tombs of French women to illuminate medieval and early modern ideas about gender identity, poverty, religion, honor, virtue, sexuality, and motherhood, among others.True PDF