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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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"Explores images of torment and martyrdom that appeared in the German-speaking world in the late medieval period, tying them to premodern conceptualizations of individuality and selfhood"--

Violence --- Martyre --- Art médiéval --- Art, Medieval --- Dans l'art. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- 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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This interdisciplinary study interprets the façade of Wells Cathedral as an integral part of thirteenth-century English Church liturgy and politics. Carolyn Malone posits that architectural motifs, as signs, complemented not only the façade's sculptural program of the Church Triumphant but also its use during liturgical processions. Interpreted as an ideological construct, the façade's design is related to theological change, liturgical innovation and political strategy, as well as to the conjuncture of several major historical and cultural events of the 1220s. As part of the Church's empowering ritual, the façade expressed the reforming views of the Fourth Lateran Council, promoted Wells as the seat the diocese and proclaimed the covenant between Church and State in England following Magna Carta.

Sculpture, English --- Sculpture, Gothic --- Facades --- Christian art and symbolism --- Themes, motives --- Wells Cathedral --- Cathédrale Saint André (Wells, Angleterre) --- Cathédrale St. André (Wells, Angleterre) --- Cathédrale de Wells --- Kathedraal van Sint Andrew (Wells, England) --- Kathedraal van St. Andrew (Wells, Engeland) --- Kathedraal van Wells --- Saint Andrew's Cathedral (Wells, England) --- St. Andrew's Cathedral (Wells, England) --- Wells (Angleterre). Cathédrale --- Wells (Engeland). Kathedraal --- Wells (England). Cathedral --- Wells cathedral --- 726 <420 WELLS> --- 726.5 --- 246.6 --- 246.6 Symbolisme in de christelijke kunst --- Symbolisme in de christelijke kunst --- 726.5 Kerkgebouwen. Kerkarchitectuur --- Kerkgebouwen. Kerkarchitectuur --- 726 <420 WELLS> Religieuze bouwkunst. Kerkelijke bouwkunst. Sacrale architectuur--Engeland--WELLS --- Religieuze bouwkunst. Kerkelijke bouwkunst. Sacrale architectuur--Engeland--WELLS --- Sculpture anglaise --- Sculpture gothique --- Façades --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Themes, motives. --- Thèmes, motifs --- Wells Cathedral. --- Beeldhouwkunst [Engelse ] --- England --- Wells (England) --- Sculpture [Gothic ] --- Façades --- Medieval, 500-1500 --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Sculpture, English - England - Wells - Themes, motives --- Sculpture, Gothic - England - Wells - Themes, motives --- Facades - England - Wells --- Christian art and symbolism - England - Wells - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Gothic sculpture --- Sculpture, Medieval --- English sculpture --- Architectural fronts --- Fronts (Architecture) --- Architecture --- Exterior walls --- Art, Christian --- Art, Ecclesiastical --- Arts in the church --- Christian symbolism --- Ecclesiastical art --- Symbolism and Christian art --- Religious art --- Symbolism --- Symbolism in art --- Church decoration and ornament --- Wells --- Details