Profane Imagery in Marginal Arts of the Middle Ages

Contents:Introduction; Preface (Malcolm Jones); Editorial (Elaine C. Block); Technical Aspects of the Misericord (Hugh Harrison) PROFANE IMAGERY ON MISERICORDS AND BADGES CHARLES TRACY: Misericords as an Interpretive Tool in the Study of Choir Stalls; ELAINE C. BLOCK: Misericords and the World of Bruegel; CHRISTA GROESSINGER: Tutivillus; M.A. Hall: Where the Abbot Carries Dice: Gaming-Board Misericords in Context; S.J.F.S. PHILIPS: Flying Low Down Under: Representations of Winged Mammals, Fowl, and Birds on English Misericords; TERRY PEARSON: The Mermaid in the Church; JENNIFER FELLOWS: Romance among the Choir Stalls: Middle English Romance Motifs on English Misericords; PAUL HARDWICK: Misinterpretations in the Margins; STEFANIE STOCKHORST: Passionate Pilgrims: Secular Lead Badges as Precursors of Stefanie Amatoria PROFANE IMAGES IN OTHER MARGINAL MEDIA NAOMI REED KLINE: Obscenity as the Woodworker's Last Laugh; DIANE G. SCILLIA: Looking for Fun in all the Wrong Places: Humour and Comedy; WALTER S. GIBSON: A Sacred Text Profaned: Seven Women Fight for the Breeches; SYLVIE BETHMONT-GALLERAND: Iconographie des charniers, des ossuaires et des aitres a travers la France medievale; SILKE MEYER: An Iconography of Shame: German Defamatory Pictures of the Early Modern Era: MARK P. MCDONALD: The Lost Print Collection of Ferdinand Columbus (1488-1539) THE MARGINAL ARTS IN THE MAINSTREAM BRIAN J. LEVY: Screening the Middle Ages: Costumes and Objects as Medieval Signifiers in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938); FREDERIC BILLIET: Diabolus in musica dans les stalles medievales signifcations du desordre musical; MALCOLM JONES: Review of Averting Demons by Ruth Mellinkoff; SYLVIE BETHMOND-GALLERAND & ELAINE c. BLOCK: Resumes in French and English; Appendix / List of Photographs by Site; The Authors.Block, E. C. is the author of 'Profane Imagery in Marginal Arts of the Middle Ages ', published 2007 under ISBN 9782503515991 and ISBN 2503515991.