"A Companion to Medieval Art" brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the architecture, manuscript illumination, and sculpture of the Romanesque and Gothic periods in Northern Europe. Comprising 30 original theoretical and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars, the volume covers the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. The book is international in scope and ambitious in its range, including coverage of reception, Gregory the Great, collecting pilgrimage art, gender, patronage, the marginal, and spolia, as well as architecture, painting, and sculpture. This Companion will be a prized reference work for anyone studying this reinvigorated period of art history.
1. Introduction : a sense of loss : an overview of the historiography of Romanesque and gothic art by Conrad Rudolph.
2. Vision by Cynthia Hahn.
3. Reception of images by medieval viewers by Madcline Harrison Caviness.
4. Narrative by Suzanne Lewis.
5. Formalism by Linda Seidel.
6. Gender and medieval art by Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz.
7. Gregory the great and image theory in Northern Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by Herbert L. Kessler.
8. Art and exegesis by Christopher G. Hughes.
9. Whodunnit? : patronage, the canon, and the problematics of agency in Romanesque and gothic art by Jill Caskey.
10. Collecting (and display) by Pierre Alain Mariaux.
11. The concept of Spolia by Dale Kinney.
12. The monstrous by Thomas E. A. Dale.
13. Making sense of marginalized images in manuscripts and religious architecture by Laura Kendrick.
14. Romanesque architecture by Eric Fernic.
15. Romanesque sculpture in Northern Europe by Colum Hourihane.
16. Modern origins of Romanesque sculpture by Robert A. Maxwell.
17. The historiography of Romanesque manuscript illumination by Adam S. Cohen.
18. The study of gothic architecture by Stephen Murray.
19. Gothic sculpture from 1150 to 1250 by Martin Buchsel.
20. Gothic manuscript illustration : the case of France by Anne D. Hedeman.
21. Glazing medieval buildings by Elizabeth Carson Pastan.
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