English Gothic misericord carvings : history from the bottom up / by Betsy Chunko-Dominguez.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Meaning(s) and Medieval Misericords -- Literacy and the Viewer -- Iconographic Dilemma -- Signa and Res -- The case for Hybridity -- 2. Violent Women and the Clerical Gaze -- Touch and Trope -- "Wykked Wyves" -- The clerical Gaze -- 3. Abject and Uncanny Human Form -- Illness and Abjection -- Scatology and Obscaena -- Ungodly Peoples -- Conflated Realities -- 4. Subject as Sign : Iconography of the Lay Classes -- Images and Fiction -- At Home and in the Fields -- "Folk" Iconography -- Peasants Behaving Badly -- 5. Image and Anxiety : Iconography of Hell and Damnation -- To Partake with Devils -- Dark Visions, Corporeal Fears -- Doleful Realities.

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. 0Beyond 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.

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