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Visual Aggression - Images of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Germany (Hardcover)
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Visual Aggression - Images of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Germany (Hardcover)
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Why does a society seek out images of violence? What can the
consumption of violent imagery teach us about the history of
violence and the ways in which it has been represented and
understood? Assaf Pinkus considers these questions within the
context of what he calls galleries of violence, the torment imagery
that flourished in German-speaking regions during the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries. Exploring these images and the visceral
bodily responses that they produced in their viewers, Pinkus argues
that the new visual discourse on violence was a watershed in
premodern conceptualizations of selfhood. Images of martyrdom in
late medieval Germany reveal a strikingly brutal parade of passion:
severed heads, split skulls, mutilated organs, extracted
fingernails and teeth, and myriad other torments. Stripped from
their devotional context and presented simply as brutal acts, these
portrayals assailed viewers’ bodies and minds so violently that
they amounted to what Pinkus describes as “visual aggressions.”
Addressing contemporary discourses on violence and cruelty, the
aesthetics of violence, and the eroticism of the tortured body,
Pinkus ties these galleries of violence to larger cultural concerns
about the ethics of violence and bodily integrity in the
conceptualization of early modern personhood. Innovative and
convincing, this study heralds a fundamental shift in the scholarly
conversation about premodern violence, moving from a focus on the
imitatio Christi and the liturgy of punishment to the notion of
violence as a moral problem in an ethical system. Scholars of
medieval and early modern art, history, and literature will welcome
and engage with Pinkus’s research for years to come.
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