{"product_id":"the-visual-object-of-desire-in-late-medieval-england-hardback-9780812240382","title":"The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England (Hardback) 9780812240382","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSarah Stanbury (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812240382\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 December 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 3 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.614 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This will be a widely read book that addresses an integral (and under-thought) aspect of late medieval culture and its complex traffic in images. The book should be of interest to all involved in the visual and verbal culture of the late Middle Ages. It is original and innovative.\" (Sarah Beckwith, Duke University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eLittle remains of the rich visual culture of late medieval English piety. The century and a half leading up to the Reformation had seen an unparalleled growth of devotional arts, as chapels, parish churches, and cathedrals came to be filled with images in stone, wood, alabaster, glass, embroidery, and paint of newly personalized saints, angels, and the Holy Family. But much of this fell victim to the Royal Injunctions of September 1538, when parish officials were ordered to remove images from their churches.\u003cbr\u003e In this highly insightful book Sarah Stanbury explores the lost traffic in images in late medieval England and its impact on contemporary authors and artists. For Chaucer, Nicholas Love, and Margery Kempe, the image debate provides an urgent language for exploring the demands of a material devotional culture-though these writers by no means agree on the ethics of those demands. The chronicler Henry Knighton invoked a statue of St. Katherine to illustrate a lurid story about image-breaking Lollards. Later John Capgrave wrote a long Katherine legend that comments, through the drama of a saint in action, on the powers and uses of religious images. As Stanbury contends, England in the late Middle Ages was keenly attuned to and troubled by its \"culture of the spectacle,\" whether this spectacle took the form of a newly made queen in Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eClerk's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e or of the animate Christ in Norwich Cathedral's Despenser Retable. In picturing images and icons, these texts were responding to reformist controversies as well as to the social and economic demands of things themselves, the provocative objects that made up the fabric of ritual life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Premodern Fetishes\u003cbr\u003e FETISH, IDOL, ICON\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Knighton's Lollards, Capgrave's \u003ci\u003eKatherine\u003c\/i\u003e, and Walter Hilton's \"Merk Ymage\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Despenser Retable and 1381\u003cbr\u003e CHAUCER'S SENTIMENTAL POETIC\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Chaucer and Images\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Translating Griselda\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Clergeon's Tongue\u003cbr\u003e MOVING PICTURES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Nicholas Love's Mirror: Dead Images and the Life of Christ\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Arts of Self-Patronage in \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Margery Kempe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555709972760,"sku":"9780812240382","price":45.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-visual-object-of-desire-in-late-medieval-england-hardback-9780812240382","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}