Visual aggression: images of martyrdom in late medieval Germany

Abstract

"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"--

Contents

Introduction : weep not for me ... but weep on yourselves -- Visual rhetoric -- Between theological and juridical positions -- Bodily imagination, imagined bodies -- Eroticized and sexualized bodies -- The body reincarnated -- Epilogue : effect and response to violence imagery.