Imago Mortis : Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture

In Imago Mortis: Mediating Images Of Death In Late Medieval Culture, Ashby Kinch Argues For The Affirmative Quality Of Late Medieval Death Art And Literature, Providing A New, Interdisciplinary Approach To A Well-known Body Of Material. He Demonstrates The Surprising And Effective Ways That Late Medieval Artists Appropriated Images Of Death And Dying As A Means To Affirm Their Artistic, Social, And Political Identities. The Book Dedicates Each Of Its Three Sections To A Pairing Of A Visual Convention (deathbed Scenes, The Three Living And Three Dead, And The Dance Of Death) And A Middle English Literary Text (hoccleve's Lerne For To Die, Audelay's Three Dead Kings, And Lydgate's Dance Of Death). Introduction: The Mediating Image Of Death -- Section One. Facing Death -- Yet Mercie Thou Shal Have : Affirmative Visions Of Dying In Illustrations Of Henry Suso's De Scientia -- Verbo-visual Mirrors Of Mortality In Thomas Hoccleve's Lerne For To Die -- Section Two. Facing The Dead -- Commemorating Power In The Legend Of The Three Living And Three Dead -- Spiritual, Artistic, And Political Economies Of Death : Audelay's Three Dead Kings And The Lancastrian Cadaver Tomb -- Section Three. The Community Of Death -- My Stile I Wille Directe : Lydgate And The Bedford Workshop Reinvent The Danse Macabre -- The Parlementaire, The Mayor, And The Crisis Of Community In The Danse Macabre -- Epilogue: The Afterlives Of Medieval Images Of Death. By Ashby Kinch. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 281-295) And Index.