Passion iconography in Northern European art of the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance. A study of the transformation of sacred metaphor into descriptive narrative.

¶ Contents: Christ's tormentors; The suffering Christ; Recurring torments; The secret passion (the arrest of Christ, Christ's night of captivity; Christ and the judges, the mocking of Christ, the flagellation, the crowning with thorns, the bearing of the cross, the crucifixion); The spikeblock. Literary evidence is drawn from Middle Netherlandish sources; Pictorial evidence comes from illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, drawings, prints and stained glass.