Full Description
This aptly-named book brings all manner of boundary-crossing into one provocative, material space in which we can view the riches of state-of-the-art scholarship on medieval and early modern visual culture. Gail McMurray Gibson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Humanities, Davidson CollegeThe essays in this collection explore the thresholds between the visual and verbal, the sensory and performative, the literal and metaphorical, the social and epistemological that shaped the cultural matrix of the Middle Ages. The contributors' interrelated interests in patronage, word-image relationships, reception theory, gender studies, close visual and textual analysis, and performance criticism make for a valuable interdisciplinary mix that highlights the importance of studying medieval material culture in its many manifestations and valences. The book benefits from the ambitious cross-disciplinary explorations and engagements with contemporary theory undertaken in the field of medieval studies in recent decades, especially those by Pamela Sheingorn, to whom the volume is dedicated.Jill Stevenson is Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, Marymount Manhattan College; Elina Gertsman is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art, Case Western Reserve University.Contributors: Richard K. Emmerson, Kathryn A. Smith, Lucy Freeman Sandler, Marilynn Desmond, Adelaide Bennett, Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Diane Wolfthal, Corine Schleif, Rachel Dressler, Glenn Burger, Robert L. A. Clark, Jenna Soleo-Shanks, Glenn Ehrstine, Colum Hourihane
Contents
Publications of Pamela SheingornIntroduction: Limning the Field - Elina Gertsman and Jill StevensonOn the Threshold of the Last Days: Negotiating Image and Word in the Apocalypse of Jean de Berry - Richard K EmmersonThe Monk Who Crucified Himself - Kathryn A. SmithThe Lumere as lais and its Readers: Pictorial Evidence from British Library MS Royal 15 D II - Lucy Freeman SandlerReading and Visuality in Stephen Scrope's Translatio of Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea - Marilynn DesmondMaking Literate Lay Women Visible: Text and Image in French and Flemish Books of Hours, 1220-1320 - Adelaide BennettWomen and the Italian Renaissance Illuminated Manuscript - J J G AlexanderThe Sexuality of the Medieval Comb - Diane WolfthalKneeling on the Threshold: Donors Negotiating Realms Betwixt and Between - Corine SchleifSculptural Representation and Spatial Appropriation in a Medieval Chantry Chapel - Rachel DresslerIn the Merchant's Bedchamber - Glenn BurgerLiminality and Literary Genres: Texts par personnages in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture - Robert L. A. ClarkFrom Stage to Page: Siena's Caleffo dell'Assunta, Spectacular Machines, and the Promotion of Civic Power - Jenna Soleo-ShanksPassion Spectatorship Between Private and Public Devotion - Glenn EhrstineAfterword. Pamela Sheingorn: An Appreciation - Colum HourihaneBibliography
