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Why does a society seek out images of violence? What can the consumption of violent imagery teach us about the history of violence and the ways in which it has been represented and understood? Assaf Pinkus considers these questions within the context of what he calls galleries of violence, the torment imagery that flourished in German-speaking regions during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Exploring these images and the visceral bodily responses that they produced in their viewers, Pinkus argues that the new visual discourse on violence was a watershed in premodern conceptualizations of selfhood.Images of martyrdom in late medieval Germany reveal a strikingly brutal parade of passion: severed heads, split skulls, mutilated organs, extracted fingernails and teeth, and myriad other torments. Stripped from their devotional context and presented simply as brutal acts, these portrayals assailed viewers’ bodies and minds so violently that they amounted to what Pinkus describes as “visual aggressions.” Addressing contemporary discourses on violence and cruelty, the aesthetics of violence, and the eroticism of the tortured body, Pinkus ties these galleries of violence to larger cultural concerns about the ethics of violence and bodily integrity in the conceptualization of early modern personhood.Innovative and convincing, this study heralds a fundamental shift in the scholarly conversation about premodern violence, moving from a focus on the imitatio Christi and the liturgy of punishment to the notion of violence as a moral problem in an ethical system. Scholars of medieval and early modern art, history, and literature will welcome and engage with Pinkus’s research for years to come.

Violence in art. --- Gothic painting. --- Gothic sculpture. --- courtly literature. --- gender. --- legal and juridical history. --- martyrdom. --- materiality. --- philosophy. --- response theory. --- rites of punishment. --- somaesthetics. --- theology. --- tortures. --- violence. --- visual culture.

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Sculpture, Gothic --- Sculpture, French --- Sculpture gothique --- Sculpture française --- Gotische beeldhouwkunst ; Frankrijk ; 1140-1270 --- 73.033.5 --- Beeldhouwkunst ; Laat-middeleeuwse beeldhouwkunst ; Gotiek --- Sculpture française --- French sculpture --- Gothic sculpture --- Sculpture, Medieval --- Sculpture, Gothic - France

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Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that evolved throughout Europe over more than 200 years.Leaving curved Roman forms behind, the architects started using flying buttresses and pointed arches to open up cathedrals to daylight. A period of great economic and social change, the Gothic era also saw the development of a new iconography celebrating the Holy Mary - in drastic contrast to the fearful themes of dark Roman times. Full of rich changes in all of the various art forms (architecture, sculpture, painting, etc.), Gothic art paved the way for the Italian Renaissance and International Gothic movement.

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Church doorways --- -Sculpture, French --- -Sculpture, Gothic --- -Christian art and symbolism --- -Art, Christian --- Art, Ecclesiastical --- Arts in the church --- Christian symbolism --- Ecclesiastical art --- Religious art, Christian --- Sacred art --- Symbolism and Christian art --- Art --- Symbolism --- Christian antiquities --- Church decoration and ornament --- Gothic sculpture --- Sculpture, Medieval --- French sculpture --- Doorways --- Cathedrale de Chartres --- Notre-Dame (Cathedral : Chartres, France) --- Chartres, France. --- Notre-Dame de Chartres (Cathedral) --- Chartres Cathedral --- -Cathedrale de Chartres --- -Gothic sculpture --- Art, Christian --- Christian art and symbolism --- Sculpture, French --- Sculpture, Gothic --- Religious art --- Cathédrale de Chartres. --- Symbolism in art

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Sculpture, Gothic --- Knights and knighthood --- Sepulchral slabs --- Portraits --- -Sculpture, Gothic --- Incised effigial slabs --- Incised monumental slabs --- Incised sepulchral slabs --- Incised stone slabs --- Slabs, Sepulchral --- Effigies --- Sepulchral monuments --- Stone carving --- Gothic sculpture --- Sculpture, Medieval --- Knighthood --- Civilization, Medieval --- Nobility --- Chivalry --- Heraldry --- Orders of knighthood and chivalry --- Theses --- Knights and knighthood - Portraits