By E. Campbell, R. Mills
Imaginative and prescient is an interdisciplinary choice of essays that explores the interface among gender, sexuality and imaginative and prescient in medieval tradition. the amount represents a thrilling array of scholarship facing visible and textual cultures from the 11th to the 15th centuries. Bringing jointly a number of theoretical ways that tackle the troubling results of imaginative and prescient on medieval texts and photographs, the ebook mediates among medieval and glossy buildings of gender and sexuality. stricken imaginative and prescient focuses thematically on 4 relevant topics: hope, having a look, illustration and analyzing. subject matters comprise the gender of the gaze, the visibility of queer wants, representations of gender and sexuality, spectacle and reader reaction, and the visible troubling of contemporary severe different types.
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Christus opposes the sin of sodomy to the holy sacrament of matrimony. 57 Sodomy was a critical issue in fifteenth-century Bruges. ”58 Furthermore, no segment of society remained untouched by this persecution; convicted sodomites included men and women, young and old, citizens and foreigners, those from marginal groups who frequented bathhouses and taverns, and those from the upper echelons of society, such as Jan of Uutkerke, who was Duke Philip’s godson and the son of the duke’s chamberlain. Citing one case in which the chancellor himself, even during the siege of Neuss, took time to personally intercede in a case of sodomy, Boone concludes that the repression of those who engaged in homosexual acts was one of the ways in which the state sought to control its citizens and consolidate its power.
155, fig. 58c; Stephen K. ), Europe in Torment: 1450–1550 (Providence: Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design, 1974), pp. 107–109. 31. Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting, p. 490, n2; Upton, Petrus Christus, p. 34. 32. Scott, Late Gothic Painting, pp. 146, 148. Bauman also terms them aristocratic: see “Early Flemish Portraits,” pp. 11–12. For images of Isabella, see Micheline Sonkes, Dessins du XVe siècle: Groupe Van der Weyden (Brussels: Centre National de Recherches “Primitifs Flamands,” 1969), p.
107. A letter of 1475 from the Bruges ecoutête (the “schout”, or local bailiff) to the duke and chancellor mentions the trial, which is said to have taken place some 25 years earlier. (General Archives, Chambers of accounts, Acquits de Lille, portefeuille no. ) This information was kindly communicated to me via E-mail by Marc Boone in 2000. 63. It measures 381/2 ϫ 331/2 in. (98 ϫ 85 cm). 64. The term “demonization” may seem too strong to some, but see Johannson and Percy, “Homosexuality,” p. 172, and Hergemöller, “Homosexuelles Alltagsleben,” p.
