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A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history

This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe and provides a clear analytical survey of what is happening in this major area of Western art history. The volume comprises original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars who discuss the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives.

Part of the Blackwell Companions to Art History, A Companion to Medieval Art, Second Edition features an international and ambitious range of contributions covering reception, formalism, Gregory the Great, pilgrimage art, gender, patronage, marginalized images, the concept of spolia, manuscript illumination, stained glass, Cistercian architecture, art of the crusader states, and more.

  • Newly revised edition of a high

    Table of Contents

    Notes on Contributors ix

    Series Editor’s Preface xvii

    Preface to the First Edition xix

    Preface to the Second Edition xxiii

    1 Introduction: A Sense of Loss: An Overview of the Historiography of Romanesque and Gothic Art 1
    Conrad Rudolph

    2 Artifex and Opifex – The Medieval Artist 45
    Beate Fricke

    3 Vision 71
    Cynthia Hahn

    4 Materials, Materia, “Materiality” 95
    Aden Kumler

    5 Reception of Images by Medieval Viewers 119
    Madeline Harrison Caviness

    6 Narrative, Narratology, and Meaning 147
    Suzanne Lewis

    7 Formalism 171
    Linda Seidel

    8 Gender and Medieval Art 195
    Brigitte Kurmann‐Schwarz

    9 Gregory the Great and Image Theory in Northern Europe During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 221
    Herbert L. Kessler

    10 Iconography 245
    Shirin Fozi

    11 Art and Exegesis 267
    Christopher G. Hughes

    12 Whodunnit? Patronage, the Canon, and the Problematics of Agency in Romanesque and Gothic Art 287
    Jill Caskey

    13 Collecting (and Display) 309
    Pierre Alain Mariaux

    14 The Concept of Spolia 331
    Dale Kinney

    15 The Monstrous 357
    Thomas E.A. Dale

    16 Making Sense of Marginalized Images in Manuscripts and Religious Architecture 383
    Laura Kendrick

    17 Definitions and Explanations of the Romanesque Style in Architecture from the 1960s to the Present Day 407
    Eric Fernie

    18 Romanesque Sculpture in Northern Europe 417
    Colum Hourihane

    19 Modern Origins of Romanesque Sculpture 439
    Robert A. Maxwell

    20 The Historiography of Romanesque Manuscript Illumination 463
    Adam S. Cohen

    21 The Study of Gothic Architecture 489
    Stephen Murray

    22 France, Germany, and the Historiography of Gothic Sculpture 513
    Jacqueline E. Jung

    23 Gothic Manuscript Illustration: The Case of France 547
    Anne D. Hedeman

    24 “‘Specially English’: Gothic Illumination c.1190 to the Early Fourteenth Century” 569
    Kathryn A. Smith

    25 From Institutional to Private and from Latin to the Vernacular: German Manuscript Illumination in the Thirteenth Century 601
    Michael Curschmann

    26 Glazing Medieval Buildings 627
    Elizabeth Carson Pastan

    27 Toward a Historiography of the Sumptuous Arts 657
    Brigitte Buettner

    28 Reliquaries 681
    Cynthia Hahn

    29 East Meets West: The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States 705
    Jaroslav Folda

    30 Gothic in the Latin East 729
    Michalis Olympios

    31 Art and Liturgy in the Middle Ages 759
    Eric Palazzo

    32 Architectural Layout: Design, Structure, and Construction in Northern Europe 777
    Marie‐Therese Zenner

    33 Sculptural Programs 801
    Bruno Boerner

    34 The Art and Architecture of Female Monasticism 823
    Jeffrey F. Hamburger

    35 Cistercian Architecture 857
    Peter Fergusson

    36 Art and Pilgrimage: Mapping the Way 881
    Paula Gerson

    37 “The Scattered Limbs of the Giant”: Recollecting Medieval Architectural Revivals 907
    Tina Waldeier Bizzarro

    38 Medieval Art Collections 933
    Janet T. Marquardt

    39 The Modern Medieval Museum 957
    Michelle P. Brown

    Index 977

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 19/04/2019
      ISBN13: 9781119077725, 978-1119077725
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history

      This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe and provides a clear analytical survey of what is happening in this major area of Western art history. The volume comprises original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars who discuss the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives.

      Part of the Blackwell Companions to Art History, A Companion to Medieval Art, Second Edition features an international and ambitious range of contributions covering reception, formalism, Gregory the Great, pilgrimage art, gender, patronage, marginalized images, the concept of spolia, manuscript illumination, stained glass, Cistercian architecture, art of the crusader states, and more.

      • Newly revised edition of a high

        Table of Contents

        Notes on Contributors ix

        Series Editor’s Preface xvii

        Preface to the First Edition xix

        Preface to the Second Edition xxiii

        1 Introduction: A Sense of Loss: An Overview of the Historiography of Romanesque and Gothic Art 1
        Conrad Rudolph

        2 Artifex and Opifex – The Medieval Artist 45
        Beate Fricke

        3 Vision 71
        Cynthia Hahn

        4 Materials, Materia, “Materiality” 95
        Aden Kumler

        5 Reception of Images by Medieval Viewers 119
        Madeline Harrison Caviness

        6 Narrative, Narratology, and Meaning 147
        Suzanne Lewis

        7 Formalism 171
        Linda Seidel

        8 Gender and Medieval Art 195
        Brigitte Kurmann‐Schwarz

        9 Gregory the Great and Image Theory in Northern Europe During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 221
        Herbert L. Kessler

        10 Iconography 245
        Shirin Fozi

        11 Art and Exegesis 267
        Christopher G. Hughes

        12 Whodunnit? Patronage, the Canon, and the Problematics of Agency in Romanesque and Gothic Art 287
        Jill Caskey

        13 Collecting (and Display) 309
        Pierre Alain Mariaux

        14 The Concept of Spolia 331
        Dale Kinney

        15 The Monstrous 357
        Thomas E.A. Dale

        16 Making Sense of Marginalized Images in Manuscripts and Religious Architecture 383
        Laura Kendrick

        17 Definitions and Explanations of the Romanesque Style in Architecture from the 1960s to the Present Day 407
        Eric Fernie

        18 Romanesque Sculpture in Northern Europe 417
        Colum Hourihane

        19 Modern Origins of Romanesque Sculpture 439
        Robert A. Maxwell

        20 The Historiography of Romanesque Manuscript Illumination 463
        Adam S. Cohen

        21 The Study of Gothic Architecture 489
        Stephen Murray

        22 France, Germany, and the Historiography of Gothic Sculpture 513
        Jacqueline E. Jung

        23 Gothic Manuscript Illustration: The Case of France 547
        Anne D. Hedeman

        24 “‘Specially English’: Gothic Illumination c.1190 to the Early Fourteenth Century” 569
        Kathryn A. Smith

        25 From Institutional to Private and from Latin to the Vernacular: German Manuscript Illumination in the Thirteenth Century 601
        Michael Curschmann

        26 Glazing Medieval Buildings 627
        Elizabeth Carson Pastan

        27 Toward a Historiography of the Sumptuous Arts 657
        Brigitte Buettner

        28 Reliquaries 681
        Cynthia Hahn

        29 East Meets West: The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States 705
        Jaroslav Folda

        30 Gothic in the Latin East 729
        Michalis Olympios

        31 Art and Liturgy in the Middle Ages 759
        Eric Palazzo

        32 Architectural Layout: Design, Structure, and Construction in Northern Europe 777
        Marie‐Therese Zenner

        33 Sculptural Programs 801
        Bruno Boerner

        34 The Art and Architecture of Female Monasticism 823
        Jeffrey F. Hamburger

        35 Cistercian Architecture 857
        Peter Fergusson

        36 Art and Pilgrimage: Mapping the Way 881
        Paula Gerson

        37 “The Scattered Limbs of the Giant”: Recollecting Medieval Architectural Revivals 907
        Tina Waldeier Bizzarro

        38 Medieval Art Collections 933
        Janet T. Marquardt

        39 The Modern Medieval Museum 957
        Michelle P. Brown

        Index 977

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