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• Title:Motherhood and meaning in medieval sculpture : representations from France, c.1100-1500 / Marian Bleeke.
  
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• Author/Creator:Bleeke, Marian, author.
  
• Published/Created:Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : The Boydell Press, 2017.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NB543 .B53 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Sculpture, Medieval--France--Themes, motives.
  Mothers in art.
  Women in art.
  Motherhood--France--History--To 1500.
  
• Description:xii, 199 pages, IV pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  
• Series:Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture.
  
• Summary:What can medieval sculptural representations of women tell us about medieval women's experiences of motherhood? Presumably the work of male sculptors, working for clerical patrons, these sculptures are unlikely to have been shaped by women's maternal experiences during their production. Once produced, however, their beholders would have included women who were mothers and potential mothers, thus opening a space between the sculptures' intended meanings and other meanings liable to be produced by these women as they brought their own interests and concerns to these works of art. Building on theories of reception and response, this book focuses on interactions between women as beholders and a range of sculptures made in France in the twelfth through sixteenth centuries, aiming to provide insight into women's experiences of motherhood; particular sculptures considered include the Annunciation and Visitation from Reims cathedral, the femme-aux-serpents from Moissac, the transi of Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendome, the Eve from Autun, and a number of French Gothic Virgin and Child sculptures.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (page 175-191) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781783272501 hardcover
  1783272503 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Motherhood as Transformation: From IS Annunciation to Visitation at Reims
  2. Motherhood as Monstrosity: The Moissac Femme-aux-serpents and the Transi of Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendome
  3. Resurrecting Lazarus: The Eve from Saint-Lazare at Autun
  4. Visualizing Parturition: Devotional Sculptures of the Virgin and Child.