It is still routinely repeated that representations of the
unclothed body in the Middle Ages connoted a site of corruption and
sin, in contrast to a new, distinctive, humanistic and even
secularizing Renaissance appreciation. But as the contributors to
this collection remind us, medieval imagery that incorporated
nudity was varied, complex and nuanced. It was a time-honored
category of representation that viewers had been accustomed to
seeing in the most sacred contexts, but also an opportunity for
dissent and transgression, and thus a source of conservative
consternation. This volume discloses how nudity in medieval art
staged a discourse about sex and gender that informs the
iconography of the nude body in Western art up to the present day;
in doing so, it offers new insight into the problematic role of the
nude in the larger art historical narrative. Addressing a strangely
neglected key issue in the history of art, this volume engages the
issue of medieval representations of the unclothed human body on
theoretical grounds and in a more global way than has been done
previously. The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art breaks ground by
offering a variety of approaches to explore the meanings of both
male and female nudity in European painting, manuscripts and
sculpture ranging from the late antique era to the fifteenth
century.
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