Profane Imagery in Marginal Arts of the Middle Ages

Edited by Elaine C Block Edited by Malcolm Jones

Book cover: Profane Imagery in Marginal Arts of the Middle Ages

Extent: 420, 420 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Art & Art History, Medieval Studies

Series: Profane Arts of the Middle Ages

Series volume number: 1

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(March 2009)

ISBN: 9782503515991

Price: $82.00

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Table of Contents: Introduction – Malcolm Jones, Preface – Elaine C. Block, Editorial – Hugh Harrison, Technical Aspects of the Misericord Profane Imagery on Misericords and Lead Badges Charles Tracy, Misericords as an Interpretative Tool in the Study of Choir Stalls – Elaine C. Block, Misericords and the World of Bruegel – Christa Grossinger, Tutivillus – M. A. Hall, Where the Abbot Carries Dice: Gaming-Board Misericords in Context – S. J. F. S. Philips, Flying Low Down Under: Representations of Winged Mammals, Fowl, and Birds on English Misericords – Terry Pearson, The Mermaid in the Church – Jennifer Fellows, Romance among the Choir Stalls: Middle English Romance Motifs on English Misericords – Paul Hardwick, Misinterpretations in the Margins – Stefanie Stockhorst, Passionate Pilgrims: Secular Lead Badges as Precursors of Emblemata Amatoria Profane Imagery in other Marginal Media Naomi Reed Kline, Obscenity as the Woodworker’s Last Laugh – Diane G. Scillia, Looking for Fun in All the Wrong Places: Humour and Comedy in Moralizing Prints – Walter S. Gibson, A Sacred Text Profaned: Seven Women Fight for the Breeches – Sylvie Bethmont-Gallerand, Iconographie des charniers, des ossuaires et des aitres a travers la France medievale – Silke Meyer, An Iconography of Shame: German Defamatory Pictures of the Early Modern Era – Mark P. McDonald, The Lost Print Collection of Ferdinand Columbus (1488-1539) The Marginal Arts in the Mainstream Brian J. Levy, Screening in the Middle Ages: Costumes and Objects as Medieval Signifiers in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) – Frederic Billiet, Diabolus in musica dans les stalles medievales: significations du desordre musical – Malcolm Jones, Review of Averting Demons by Ruth Mellinkoff – Sylvie Bethmont-Gallerand and Elaine C. Block, Resumes in French and English Appendix / List of photographs by site The Authors

  • Edited by Elaine C Block
  • Edited by Malcolm Jones