Holy Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty and Visual Culture in the Later Middle Ages

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書刊名 TitleHoly Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty and Visual Culture in the Later Middle Ages
作者 AuthorL’Estrange, Elizabeth
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Publisher		Manchester UP
出版年 Year2008
語言 LanguageEnglish
ISBN
(10 / 13)		978-0-7190-7543-8
Bibliography Reference (STC, Duff, GW . . .)
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Web Link		http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719075438/
評論者Reviewer郭如蘋、洪沛茵
撰寫日期 DateNov. 16, 2016

Ø 書評 Review (中英文不限 Chinese or English) 

    這項研究將聖潔母性和生育的圖像結合作為研究藝術史的中心，演示圖像的運作，這些圖像不僅是編寫和維護父權社會中的社會角色，而且還為觀察者提供管理這些角色的方法。書中所納入的部分手稿其圖像和文字是第一次問世。本研究藉由學者對禱告、分娩儀式和教會儀式的熟悉度進而探討貴族婦女和男性養成的許多認知習慣，並以此角度來詮釋六部手稿中的圖像和祈禱文。此本專書設定的閱讀對象為高階學生，以及藝術史、彩繪圖飾手稿、中世紀歷史和性別研究的學者和研究人員。
 
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This study brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry, showing how images worked not only to script and maintain gender and social roles within patriarchal society, but also to offer viewers ways of managing those roles. Some of the manuscripts discussed are relatively unknown and their images and texts are made available to readers for the first time. Through an adaptation of Baxandall's 'period eye', the study considers the many 'cognitive habits' acquired by aristocratic lay women - and men - through familiarity with prayers for childbirth, the lying-in ceremony and the rite of churching. It then uses this methodology to interpret the images and prayers in six bespoke manuscripts, including the Fitzwilliam Hours and the Hours of Marguerite of Foix. The book will appeal to advanced students, academics and researchers of Art History, Illuminated Manuscripts, Medieval History and Gender Studies.
 
關於編者：
Elizabeth L'Estrange is an FNRS Post-Doctoral Fellow in History of Art at the University of Liège in Belgium.
 
本書目次如下：
List of illustrations
List of figures
Preface and acknowledgements
Family trees of the houses of France, Anjou, Brittany and Burgundy
Introduction
Part I Gender, agency and the interpretation of material culture
The situational eye: viewing, gender and response in the later middle ages
De conceptione ad partum: saints, treatises and prayers for successful childbirth
The lying-in month and the rite of churching: post-partum rituals and the material culture of childbearing
Part II Manuscript case studies from the houses of Anjou, Brittany and France
Holy mothers, sainted monarchs and beata stirps: the Fitzwilliam Hours and Books of Hours for the house of Anjou
Steriles fecundas fecisti: viewing and reading holy motherhood in the manuscripts of four duchesses of Brittany
Conclusion
Appendix I: prayer and translation from the Hours of Marguerite of Foix
Appendix II: prayer and translation from the Prayer Book of Anne of Brittany 
Bibliography
Index
 
Review:
2010
January Winner of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship First Book Prize
 
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