Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe

Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
Author: Charles Zika
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 630
Release: 2021-10-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004475915

This collection of sixteen essays deals with the role of magic, religion and witchcraft in European culture, 1450-1650, and the critical role of the visual in that culture. It covers the relationship of humanism and magic; the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power; the discursive links between the visual language of witchcraft and contemporary anxieties about sexuality and savagery. The introductory chapter urges us to exorcise our tendency to reduce historical experiences of the demonic to forms of unreason created in a distant past. Only then can we understand the role of the demonic in our historical definition of the self and the other. Richly illustrated with 112 images, the book will interest historians and art historians.

Albrecht Durer

Albrecht Durer
Author: Jane Campbell Hutchison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2003-08-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 113558172X

Hutchison's book is a complete guide on Durer and the research on his work, his historical import and his aesthetic legacy.

The Wild Man

The Wild Man
Author: Timothy Husband
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 233
Release: 1980
Genre: Art, Medieval
ISBN: 0870992546

Troubled Vision

Troubled Vision
Author: E. Campbell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137114517

Troubled Vision is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the interface between gender, sexuality and vision in medieval culture. The volume represents an exciting array of scholarship dealing with visual and textual cultures from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth centuries. Bringing together a range of theoretical approaches that address the troubling effects of vision on medieval texts and images, the book mediates between medieval and modern constructions of gender and sexuality. Troubled Vision focuses thematically on four central themes: Desire, looking, representation and reading. Topics include the gender of the gaze, the visibility of queer desires, troubled representations of gender and sexuality, spectacle and reader response, and the visual troubling of modern critical categories.

Gender and Witchcraft

Gender and Witchcraft
Author: Brian P. Levack
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136539115

Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 set, Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology, extends the earlier volumes by bringing together the most important articles of the past twenty years and covering the profound changes in scholarly perspective over the past two decades. Featuring thematically organized papers from a broad spectrum of publications, the volumes in this set encompass the key issues and approaches to witchcraft research in fields such as gender studies, anthropology, sociology, literature, history, psychology, and law. This new collection provides students and researchers with an invaluable resource, comprising the most important and influential discussions on this topic. A useful introductory essay written by the editor precedes each volume.

Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 689
Release: 1993
Genre: Tapestry
ISBN: 0870996444

A study of the condition, subject, design, manufacture, ownership, and exhibitions for each tapestry or set of tapestries in the Museum's medieval tapestry collection. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art.