Preface -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- The Mediating Image of Death -- Section One -- Facing Death -- Chapter One -- "Yet mercie thou shal have": Affirmative Visions of Dying in Illustrations of Henry Suso's "De Scientia" -- Chapter Two -- Verbo-Visual Mirrors of Mortality in Thomas Hoccleve's "Lerne for to Die" -- Section Two -- Facing the Dead -- Chapter Three -- Commemorating Power in the Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead -- Chapter Four -- Spiritual, Artistic, and Political Economies of Death: Audelay's Three Dead Kings and the Lancastrian Cadaver Tomb -- Section Three -- The Community of Death -- Chapter Five -- "My stile I wille directe": Lydgate and the Bedford Workshop Reinvent the Danse Macabre -- Chapter Six -- The Parlementaire, the Mayor, and the Crisis of Community in the Danse Macabre -- Epilogue -- The Afterlives of Medieval Images of Death -- Bibliography -- INDEX.