Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Spectacular unmaking: creative destruction, destructive creativity / John R. Decker
  • Guido da Siena and the four modes of violence / Assaf Pinkus
  • The suffering Christ and visual mnemonics in Netherlandish devotions / Mitzi Kirkland-Ives
  • A chopped-off head on a golden plate : Jan Mostaert's Head of Saint John the Baptist on a plate surrounded by angels / Soetkin Vanhauwaert
  • Reviving martyrdom: interpretations of the catacombs in Cesare Baronio's patronage / Kelley Magill
  • The authorizations of torture: John Bale writing Anne Askew / Natalia Khomenko
  • Killing and dying at the Death of Decius Mus / Renzo Baldasso
  • Dracula, the Turks and the rhetoric of impaling in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Germany / Heather Madar
  • Execution by image: visual spectacularism and iconoclasm in late medieval and early modern Europe / Allie Terry-Fritsch
  • A shameful spectacle: Claes Jansz. Visscher's 1623 news prints of executed Dutch 'Arminians' / Maureen Warren
  • Closing thoughts / John R. Decker