Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy by Madeline H. Caviness

Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy

Madeline H. Caviness

231 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced
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During the high Middle Ages in Europe, the act of looking was surrounded by superstition. It was believed to have magic power, it was able to arouse anxiety, and it was the subject of lengthy texts by both men and women. In Visualizing Women in th...

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