The Book of Hours and the Body: Somaesthetics, Posthumanism, and the Uncanny (Routledge Research in Art History)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures and Photo Credits
Abbreviations
Notes on the Text
Acknowledgments
1. The Book of Hours and the Body: Introduction
2. Somaesthetics: The Book of Hours as Elite Self-Fashioning
	Introduction
		The Theory
		The Manuscript and Its Place in Art History
	Somaesthetic Self-Fashioning
		Portraits and Identity
		Sexuality and Gender
		Embodying Penitence
	Somaesthetic Art, Politics, and Society
		The Politics of Penance
		Strange Mergings and Social Class
		Somaesthetic Othering
	Conclusion
3. Posthumanism: Technologizing the Book of Hours
	Introduction
		The Theory
		The Manuscript and Its Place in Art History
	The Posthumanist Margin
		The Illusion of the Center
		The Technological Unconscious
		Gender in the Margins
	Posthumanist Art, Politics, and Society
		Gender and Succession
		The Posthumanist Subject in Society
		Agents and Objects
	Conclusion
4. The Uncanny: Immaterial Matters in Books of Hours
	Introduction
		The Theory
		The Manuscripts and Their Place in Art History
	Uncanny (Im)materiality
		Anthropomorphic Trinities
		Materials
		Lives of the Virgin and Christ Cycles
	Uncanny Art, Politics, and Society
		Bibliophilic Loyalty and Partisan Luminescence
		Uncanny Regalia
		Posthumous Possessions
	Conclusion
Index of Secondary Authors
General Index