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| 0821-5339-01 | The Eroticism of the Turtured Body in Medieval Art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
Medieval Art is replete with violent imagery: combating monsters, warring knights, the Miles Christi, tortures of the damned in Hell, executions of martyrs, and mutilation of female bodies. These representations were also the point where medieval art and viewers were confronted with the naked, sensual and erotic body. This seminar will look into this violent imagery in light of late medieval theology, perceiving pain as redemption; and in light of the eroticism apparent in Song of Songs. It will also explore the relations between body and soul and their implications for 12th-14th -century visual art. The seminar will treat reception and response theories and the relation between imaginative and real eroticism and violence.