Art Piety and the Body in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance

This module will explore the art of Europe in the long fifteenth century (approximately 1380-
1520) with particular attention being paid to religious culture and belief; how gender and the
body were understood and expressed; the role of pilgrimage, suffrages and the saints; the
differences of artistic expressions between northern Europe (e.g. Flanders) and southern
(Italy); the art of crises such as witchcraft, plague and religious reform; and the ways in which
naturalism and humanism challenged existing modes of artistic expression. We will also look
at whether the view of the period as one steeped in pessimism, the macabre and thoughts of
decay, known according to the formulation of Jan Huizinga as the ‘waning of the Middle Ages’

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