Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art

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This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities deployed to construct gender identity. The text analyzes a vast array of medieval artworks, including Dieric Bouts’s Justice of Otto III, AlbrechtDürer’s Feast of the Rose Garland, Rembrandt van Rijn’s Naked Woman Seated on a Mound, and Renaissance-era transi tombs of French women to illuminate medieval and early modern ideas about gender identity, poverty, religion, honor, virtue, sexuality, and motherhood, among others. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction to Gender and Otherness in Medieval and Early Modern Art (Sherry C. M. Lindquist)....Pages 1-13 Facing Medusa: A Thirteenth-Century Reliquary of King David (Beth Fischer)....Pages 15-41 Picturing Maternal Anxiety in the Miracle of the Jew of Bourges (Carlee A. Bradbury)....Pages 43-65 Representing Women and Poverty in Late Medieval Art (Holly Flora)....Pages 67-89 Forms of Testimony in Dirk Bouts’s Justice of Otto III (Jessen Kelly)....Pages 91-119 Dürer’s Feast of the Rose Garland and the Scuola dei Tedeschi as Strategies for Mediating Foreign, Masculine Identity (John R. Decker)....Pages 121-150 “The Monster, Death, Becomes Pregnant:” Representations of Motherhood in Female Transi Tombs from Renaissance France (Marian Bleeke)....Pages 151-178 Embodying Gluttony as Women’s Wildness: Rembrandt’s Naked Woman Seated on a Mound, c. 1629–1631 (Michelle Moseley-Christian)....Pages 179-209 Back Matter ....Pages 211-244