Literature, Medieval--History and criticism
Death--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500
Visual communication--Europe--History--To 1500
Introduction: The Mediating Image of Death -- Section One. Facing Death -- "Yet mercie thou shal have" : Affirmative Visions of Dying in Illustrations of Henry Suso's "De Scientia" -- Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve's "Lerne for to Die" -- Section Two. Facing the Dead -- Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead -- Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death : Audelay's Three Dead Kings and the Lancastrian Cadaver Tomb -- Section Three. The Community of Death -- "My stile I wille directe" : Lydgate and the Bedford Workshop Reinvent the Danse Macabre -- The Parlementaire, the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre -- Epilogue: The Afterlives of Medieval Images of Death.