Ashby Kinch, Ph.D (2000) is Associate Professor of English at The University of Montana. He has co-edited a book and published several articles on Alain Chartier, as well as numerous articles on medieval death art and Middle English literature.

• List of Figures ... viiPreface ... xiiiIntroduction: The Mediating Image of Death ... 1Section One: Facing Death1: “Yet mercie thou shal have”: Affirmative Visions of Dying in Illustrations of Henry Suso’s “De Scientia” ... 352: Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve’s “Lerne for to Die” ... 69Section Two: Facing the Dead3: Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead ... 1094: Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death: Audelay’s Three Dead Kings and the Lancastrian Cadaver Tomb ... 145Section Three: The Community of Death5: “My stile I wille directe”: Lydgate and the Bedford Workshop Reinvent the Danse Macabre ... 1856: The Parlementaire , the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre ... 227Epilogue: The Afterlives of Medieval Images of Death ... 261Bibliography ... 281Index ... 297

"...Kinch traces how visual and verbal artists draw on, adapt, and transform each other’s traditions in ways that are sometimes complementary, sometimes competitive, and nearly always in the service of making death more palatable to their powerful patrons. It would have been significantly easier to study one or two of these topics more deeply and in isolation, but it is in teasing out this vast network that Imago Mortis does its most valuable work... Any chapter in Imago Mortis could serve as a useful model in graduate and advanced undergraduate seminars. I also want to note that the book is unusually readable: a boon to any reader, but one that is vital for introducing students to rigorous scholarship..."Bridget Whearty, in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 2015, pp. 301-304

Ashby Kinch, Ph.D (2000) is Associate Professor of English at The University of Montana. He has co-edited a book and published several articles on Alain Chartier, as well as numerous articles on medieval death art and Middle English literature.

• List of Figures ... viiPreface ... xiiiIntroduction: The Mediating Image of Death ... 1Section One: Facing Death1: “Yet mercie thou shal have”: Affirmative Visions of Dying in Illustrations of Henry Suso’s “De Scientia” ... 352: Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve’s “Lerne for to Die” ... 69Section Two: Facing the Dead3: Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead ... 1094: Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death: Audelay’s Three Dead Kings and the Lancastrian Cadaver Tomb ... 145Section Three: The Community of Death5: “My stile I wille directe”: Lydgate and the Bedford Workshop Reinvent the Danse Macabre ... 1856: The Parlementaire , the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre ... 227Epilogue: The Afterlives of Medieval Images of Death ... 261Bibliography ... 281Index ... 297

"...Kinch traces how visual and verbal artists draw on, adapt, and transform each other’s traditions in ways that are sometimes complementary, sometimes competitive, and nearly always in the service of making death more palatable to their powerful patrons. It would have been significantly easier to study one or two of these topics more deeply and in isolation, but it is in teasing out this vast network that Imago Mortis does its most valuable work... Any chapter in Imago Mortis could serve as a useful model in graduate and advanced undergraduate seminars. I also want to note that the book is unusually readable: a boon to any reader, but one that is vital for introducing students to rigorous scholarship..."Bridget Whearty, in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 2015, pp. 301-304

Ashby Kinch, Ph.D (2000) is Associate Professor of English at The University of Montana. He has co-edited a book and published several articles on Alain Chartier, as well as numerous articles on medieval death art and Middle English literature.

• List of Figures ... viiPreface ... xiiiIntroduction: The Mediating Image of Death ... 1Section One: Facing Death1: “Yet mercie thou shal have”: Affirmative Visions of Dying in Illustrations of Henry Suso’s “De Scientia” ... 352: Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve’s “Lerne for to Die” ... 69Section Two: Facing the Dead3: Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead ... 1094: Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death: Audelay’s Three Dead Kings and the Lancastrian Cadaver Tomb ... 145Section Three: The Community of Death5: “My stile I wille directe”: Lydgate and the Bedford Workshop Reinvent the Danse Macabre ... 1856: The Parlementaire , the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre ... 227Epilogue: The Afterlives of Medieval Images of Death ... 261Bibliography ... 281Index ... 297

"...Kinch traces how visual and verbal artists draw on, adapt, and transform each other’s traditions in ways that are sometimes complementary, sometimes competitive, and nearly always in the service of making death more palatable to their powerful patrons. It would have been significantly easier to study one or two of these topics more deeply and in isolation, but it is in teasing out this vast network that Imago Mortis does its most valuable work... Any chapter in Imago Mortis could serve as a useful model in graduate and advanced undergraduate seminars. I also want to note that the book is unusually readable: a boon to any reader, but one that is vital for introducing students to rigorous scholarship..."Bridget Whearty, in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 2015, pp. 301-304