by Jon Lackman | 3 April 2006 | Journals, Medieval
In a richly illustrated article entitled “‘Muoz ich tanzen und kan nit gân?’: death and the infant in the medieval danse macabre,” in the latest issue of Word & Image, Sophie Oosterwijk writes: “relatively little is known about medieval infancy; as a phase of life it has largely been ignored by historians … it is still a common assumption that medieval adults were incapable of understanding the nature of children, and thus must have regarded — and treated — them as ‘miniature adults’ … Closer inspection shows … that there was a keen interest in children and child development.”
Also in this issue:
- “The Paradox of Intersemiotic Translation and the Comic Book. Examples from Enki Bilal’s Nikopol Trilogy”
- “How to Look at a Printed Flower” (a discussion of floral motifs in Renaissance printed books)
