Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture

List of Figures ... vii Preface ... xiii Introduction: The Mediating Image of Death ... 1 Section One: Facing Death 1: Yet mercie thou shal have: Affirmative Visions of Dying in Illustrations of Henry Suso's De Scientia ... 35 2: Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve's Lerne for to Die ... 69 Section Two: Facing the Dead 3: Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead ... 109 4: Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death: Audelay's Three Dead Kings and the Lancastrian Cadaver Tomb ... 145 Section Three: The Community of Death 5: My stile I wille directe: Lydgate and the Bedford Workshop Reinvent the Danse Macabre ... 185 6: The Parlementaire , the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre ... 227 Epilogue: The Afterlives of Medieval Images of Death ... 261 Bibliography ... 281 Index ... 297