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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
Author: Sand, Alexa
Subjects: England ; France ; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval ; Portraits ; Portraits, Medieval ; Prayer books ; Women
Description: 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.
Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press
Creation Date: 2014
Format: 434
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 1107032229
ISBN: 9781107032224
EISBN: 1139424769
EISBN: 9781139424769
EISBN: 1107728444
EISBN: 9781107728448
EISBN: 9781139891424
EISBN: 1139891421
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139424769
OCLC: 869735803

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