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Speculum Mortis: The Image of Death in Late Medieval Bohemian Painting [Hardback]

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  • Format: Hardback, 262 pages, height x width x depth: 228x159x21 mm, weight: 544 g, 73 BW Photos
  • Pub. Date: 22-Jun-2020
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • ISBN-10: 1498586554
  • ISBN-13: 9781498586559
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  • Format: Hardback, 262 pages, height x width x depth: 228x159x21 mm, weight: 544 g, 73 BW Photos
  • Pub. Date: 22-Jun-2020
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • ISBN-10: 1498586554
  • ISBN-13: 9781498586559
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This study analyzes late medieval paintings of personified death in Bohemia, arguing that Bohemian iconography was distinct from the body of macabre painting found in other Central European regions during the same period. The author focuses on a variety of images from late medieval Bohemia, examining how they express the imagination, devotion, and anxieties surrounding death in the Middle Ages.

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This richly illustrated study provides comprehensive information about the cultural history of death, examining theological discourse and popular piety surrounding artistic visualizations such as the "personified death" in the Danse macabre. Daniela Rywiková's intriguing study introduces the reader to this central theme of humanity by drawing our attention to mural paintings and book illuminations of the Czech lands. Exciting to read and profoundly argued, Speculum Mortis: The Image of Death in Late Medieval Bohemian Painting offers important insight into the spirituality of medieval Bohemia. -- Maria Theisen, Austrian Academy of Sciences This study offers fascinating new material for Danse Macabre scholars as well as interesting discussions and insights into medieval views on morality, death, and the macabre across Europe with numerous references to theology and the Bible. The book is richly illustrated and lucidly argued. The author has researched her topic widely. An impressive achievement. -- Sophie Oosterwijk, University of St Andrews

List of Illustrations
vii
Foreword xi
DEATH WITHOUT DEATH
Introduction: The Four Last Things: Dying and Death in the Middle Ages xvii
FACE OF DEATH
1 Imago mortis: The Image of Death in Early Medieval Art
1(28)
2 The Death of the Apocalypse
29(12)
DEATH UNTAMED
3 Mors triumfans: The Triumph of Death in the Broumov Charnel House in the Context of Period Funeral Liturgy and Theology
41(40)
DIALOGUE WITH DEATH
4 Memento mori: The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead as a Polysemantic Presentation of Death in the Late Medieval Bohemian Mural Painting
81(44)
GOOD DEATH
5 Ars moriendi and Symmetry of Sin: The Krumlov Miscellanea as a Vademecum of Virtuous Life, Perfect Penance, and the Good Death
125(30)
IMPARTIAL DEATH
6 Danse macabre: Two Prague Dances of Death as a Critique of the Sinful World
155(36)
Epilogue: At the Threshold of the Modern Era: Decadent, Lascivious, and Grotesque Death 191(14)
Appendix 205(4)
Bibliography 209(14)
Index 223(12)
About the Author 235
Daniela Rywiková is assistant professor of art history at the University of Ostrava.