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Brueghel's Heavy Dancers: Transgressive Clothing Class and Culture in the Late Middle Ages (Medieval Studies)
John Friedman
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Description for Brueghel's Heavy Dancers: Transgressive Clothing Class and Culture in the Late Middle Ages (Medieval Studies)
Hardcover. Reveals how portrayals of peasants from the literature of the Golden Age of Virgilian Pastoral, who behave according to their social station, were increasingly replaced in the Middle Ages by portrayals that present the realistic peasant, whose outrageous behavior betrays his or her class while it threatens those who stand 'above'. Num Pages: 456 pages, 21 black-&-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 828.
What do Brueghel's mid-sixteenth-century portrayals of 'heavy' wedding dancers and feasters have in common with many late medieval poems and manuscript illustrations? Certain of his paintings, with their obsessive social detail, have often been treated as if they heralded a set of cultural attitudes peculiar to the Early Modern period. Yet the way that the painter combines, in a single scene, scurrilous behavior with dress not only unsuited to the rustic status of the wearers but often sexually revealing, reflects attitudes toward clothing, class, and culture that are deeply medieval. In this expansive and highly original book, Friedman reveals how ... Read more
What do Brueghel's mid-sixteenth-century portrayals of 'heavy' wedding dancers and feasters have in common with many late medieval poems and manuscript illustrations? Certain of his paintings, with their obsessive social detail, have often been treated as if they heralded a set of cultural attitudes peculiar to the Early Modern period. Yet the way that the painter combines, in a single scene, scurrilous behavior with dress not only unsuited to the rustic status of the wearers but often sexually revealing, reflects attitudes toward clothing, class, and culture that are deeply medieval. In this expansive and highly original book, Friedman reveals how ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
361
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632153
SKU
V9780815632153
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About John Friedman
John Block Friedman is emeritus professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought and Orpheus in the Middle Ages (Syracuse University Press), Northern English Books, and Owners and Makers in the Late Middle Ages. He is currently working on an edition and translation of The ... Read more
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