Satire, Veneration, and St. Joseph in Art, c. 1300-1550
Author:   Anne L. Williams
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Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 December 2025
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Satire, Veneration, and St. Joseph in Art, c. 1300-1550


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Author:   Anne L. Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9781041185772


ISBN 10:   1041185774
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Introduction, Chapter One: Humor and Joseph's Hosen: The 'Domestic' Saint and the Earliest Evidence of His Cult Chapter Two: Secular Satire, St. Joseph, and Revealing Hidden Humor Chapter Three: The Vir Facetus, Urbanitas, and the Rhetoric of Humor in the Religious Image Chapter Four: The Miserly Saint: Sanctity, Satire, and Subversion, Conclusion, Select Bibliography, Index.

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Anne L. Williams offers a welcome addition to the scholarship concerning late medieval and early modern hagiographical imagery. Well organized, well illustrated, and thoroughly researched, her multi-disciplinary approach marries art history, literary studies, and religious studies to bring new and compelling insights both to extant iconography of Saint Joseph and to lay and clerical attitudes toward his cult in the period(s) she studies.- Betsy Chunko-Dominguez, Savannah College of Art and Design, Speculum 96/3 (July 2021), Focusing on the artistic deployment of humour, satire and mockery, this magisterial interdisciplinary study offers innovative readings of Joseph of Nazareth in European late medieval and early modern visual culture = required reading for anyone interested in the dynamic, expanding image of St. Joseph, arguably one of the most important fathers in European culture.- Dr. Catherine Harding, Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art, University of Victoria


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Anne L. Williams is Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at the College of William & Mary.

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