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Saints, Sinners, and Sisters - Gender and Northern Art in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Saints, Sinners, and Sisters - Gender and Northern Art in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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A collection of original essays, Saints, Sinners, and Sisters
showcases the diverse questions currently being asked by gender
scholars dealing with French, Netherlandish and German art from the
medieval and early modern periods. Moving beyond the reclamation of
personalities and oeuvres of 'lost' female artists, the
contributors pose questions about gender and sex within specific
historical contexts, addressing such issues as intended audience,
use of the object, and patronage. These avenues of inquiry
intersect with larger cultural questions concerning societal
control of women. The book's three sections, 'Saints,' 'Sinners,'
and 'Sisters, Wives, Poets' are each preceded by a concise
introductory essay, detailing themes and offering reflective
comparisons of theses and information. In 'Saints,' contributors
look at women who were positive exemplar used by society to uphold
standards. In the second section, the essays focus on the power of
women's sexuality. The third section expands beyond the customary
dichotomous division of the first two to examine women in diverse
roles not widely studied as positions of women in those times. This
final section expands our definitions of women's responsibilities
and realigns them historically; it argues that women, and thus
gender, need to be understood within a much broader historical
context and beyond simplistic approaches sometimes superimposed by
present-day readers on past times. This volume answers an acute
need for research on the art of Northern Europe prior to the 20th
century, and highlights the possibilities of new directions in the
field. The effect of the new scholarship presented here is to
broaden the discursive field, allowing fluidity of disciplinary
boundaries, resulting in a volume that is illuminating to
historians of more than art alone.
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