This extensively illustrated book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of different media, but making particular use of the rich plethora of woodcuts, the author charts how the images of women changed during the period and proposes two basic categories – the Virgin and Eve, good and evil. Within these, however, we discover attitudes to sinful, foolish, married and unmarried women and the style and use of these images exposes the full extent of the misogyny entrenched in medieval society.
- ISBN10 0719041090
- ISBN13 9780719041099
- Publish Date 10 July 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 October 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English