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List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Stephen Perkinson and Noa Turel -- part 1: Housing the Dead 1 Looking beyond the Face: Tomb Effigies and the Medieval Commemoration of the Dead / Robert Marcoux 2 Portraiture, Projection, Perfection: The Multiple Effigies of Enrico Scrovegni / Henrike Christiane Lange 3 Plorans ploravit in nocte: The Birth of the Figure of the Pleurant in Tomb Sculpture / Xavier Dectot 4 Gendering Prayer in Trecento Florence: Tomb Paintings in Santa Croce and San Remigio / Judith Steinhoff 5 Two-Story Charnel-House Chapels and the Space of Death in the Medieval City / Katherine M. Boivin -- part 2: Mortal Anxieties and Living Paradoxes 6 The Living Dead and the Joy of the Crucifixion / Brigit G. Ferguson 7 The Speaking Tomb: Ventriloquizing the Voices of the Dead / Jessica Barker 8 Feeding Worms: The Theological Paradox of the Decaying Body and Its Depictions in the Context of Prayer and Devotion / Johanna Scheel 9 Not Quite Dead: Imaging the Miracle of Infant Resuscitation / Fredrika H. Jacobs -- part 3: The Macabre, Instrumentalized 10 Dissecting for the King: Guido da Vigevano and the Anatomy of Death / Peter Bovenmyer 11 Covert Apotheoses: Archbishop Henry Chichele's Tomb and the Vocational Logic of Early Transis / # Noa Turel 12 Into Print: Early Illustrated Books and the Reframing of the Danse Macabre / Maja Dujakovic 13 Death Commodified: Macabre Imagery on Luxury Objects, c. 1500 / Stephen Perkinson -- part 4: Departure and Persistence 14 Coemeterium Schola: The Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David's Veridicus Christianus / Walter S. Melion 15 A Protestant Reconceptualization of Images of Death and the Afterlife in Stephen Bateman's A Christall Glasse / Mary V. Silcox 16 Shifting Role Models within the Society of Jesus: The Abandonment of Grisly Martyrdom Images c. 1600 / Alison C. Fleming -- Bibliography -- Index.