English Gothic Misericord Carvings
History from the Bottom Up
Series: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe; 9;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 23 March 2017
- ISBN 9789004341180
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 265 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
English Gothic Misericord Carvings: History from the Bottom Up by Betsy Chunko-Dominguez explores misericords from the perspective of their several potential viewers. It is the first book to move beyond textual dependence and traditional iconographic analysis when examining this subject.
MoreLong description:
English Gothic Misericord Carvings: History from the Bottom Up by Betsy Chunko-Dominguez is the first book to move beyond textual dependence and traditional iconographic analysis when examining misericords. It likewise builds the most thorough discussion to date of the relationship between the misericord?s several potential audiences ? including patron, craftsman, occupant of the seat, and modern viewer.
Beyond the bounds of misericord studies, there are implications here for study of the relationship between center and margin in late medieval art; and, indeed, what constitutes ?center? and ?margin? as conceptual realms. Ultimately, this book attempts both to re-integrate the study of misericords into the study of Gothic art in general, and to re-center them in relation to our understanding of late medieval culture.
"The fabulous panoply of scenes carved into the misericords that once supported the bottoms of medieval monks and canons across England is ripe for an important new treatment, and in Betsy Chunko-Dominguez it has found a suitably erudite and appreciative investigator.[...] a succinct,
pithy and broad survey of the medieval interpretive field and a brilliant application of visual analysis, an important historicisation of and corrective to a somewhat neglected subject."
Gabriel Byng, Clare Hall, Cambridge, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 70 (2019), 152-153.
''Betsy Chunko-Dominguez?s volume makes a signi?cant contribution to the study of speci?cally English misericord iconography, engaging with recent work in ways that build upon current thinking and, appropriately, offer a stimulating challenge to the views of these authors. Her work engages more fully with critical theory than that of the aforementioned authors, and does so in a way that is purposeful, and that illuminates her subject while avoiding the excesses that can all too often cloud the overly theoretical. Indeed, the writing has a clarity that may be easily understood by the keen nonspecialist [...] The ?eld of misericord studies is still underexplored, and this considered?and, crucially, excellently illustrated?volume makes a valuable contribution to our approaches to this fascinating and often perplexing body of carvings and, more broadly, to the complex material articulations of life and belief in the late Middle Ages''.
Paul Hardwick, in Speculum 94/3 (2019), 819-821.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Permissions xi
List of Abbreviations xii
Introduction: History from the ?Bottom Up? 1
1 Meaning(s) and Medieval Misericords 7
Literacy and the Viewer 9
An Iconographic Dilemma 13
Signa and Res 21
The Case for Hybridity 30
2 Violent Women and the Clerical Gaze 33
Touch and Trope 38
?Wykked Wyves? 45
The Clerical Gaze 51
3 The Abject and Uncanny Human Form 55
Illness and Abjection 57
Scatology and Obscaena 65
Ungodly Peoples 71
Conflated Realities 76
4 The Subject as Sign: Iconography of the Lay Classes 85
Images and Fiction 88
At Home and in the Fields 94
?Folk? Iconography 105
Peasants Behaving Badly 111
5 Image and Anxiety: Iconography of Hell and Damnation 121
To Partake with Devils 123
Dark Visions, Corporeal Fears 128
Doleful Realities 136
Afterword: The Vanishing Mediator 143
Appendix: Dating the Misericords of Fairford 149
Bibliography 160
Index 182
