A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe

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A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe. Contains original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays by renowned and emergent scholars. overs the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Features an international and ambitious range - from reception, Gregory the Great, collecting, and pilgrimage art, to gender, patronage, the marginal, spolia, and manuscript illumination.  Read more... Abstract: A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe. Contains original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays by renowned and emergent scholars. overs the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Features an international and ambitious range - from reception, Gregory the Great, collecting, and pilgrimage art, to gender, patronage, the marginal, spolia, and manuscript illumination Content: 1 Introduction: A Sense of Loss: An Overview of the Historiography of Romanesque and Gothic Art / Conrad Rudolph -- 2 Vision / Cynthia Hahn -- 3 Reception of Images by Medieval Viewers / Madeline Harrison Caviness -- 4 Narrative / Suzanne Lewis -- 5 Formalism / Linda Seidel -- 6 Gender and Medieval Art / Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz -- 7 Gregory the Great and Image Theory in Northern Europe during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Herbert L. Kessler -- 8 Art and Exegesis / Christopher G. Hughes -- 9 Whodunnit? Patronage, the Canon, and the Problematics of Agency in Romanesque and Gothic Art / Jill Caskey -- 10 Collecting (and Display) / Pierre Alain Mariaux -- 11 The Concept of Spolia / Dale Kinney -- 12 The Monstrous / Thomas E.A. Dale -- 13 Making Sense of Marginalized Images in Manuscripts and Religious Architecture / Laura Kendriek -- 14 Romanesque Architecture / Erie Fernie -- 15 Romanesque Sculpture in Northern Europe / Colum Hourihane -- 16 Modern Origins of Romanesque Sculpture / Robert A. Maxwell -- 17 The Historiography of Romanesque Manuscript Illumination / Adam S. Cohen -- 18 The Study of Gothic Architecture / Stephen Murray -- 19 Gothic Sculpture from 1150 to 1250 / Martin Büehsel -- 20 Gothic Manuscript Illustration: The Case of France / Anne D. Hedeman -- 21 Glazing Medieval Buildings / Elizabeth Carson Pastan -- 22 Toward a Historiography of the Sumptuous Arts / Brigitte Buettner -- 23 East Meets West: The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States / Jaroslav Folda -- 24 Gothic in the East: Western Architecture in Byzantine Lands / Tassos C. Papaeostas -- 25 Architectural Layout: Design, Structure, and Construction in Northern Europe / Marie-Thérèse Zenner -- 26 Sculptural Programs / Bruno Boerner -- 27 Cistercian Architecture / Peter Fergusson -- 28 Art and Pilgrimage: Mapping the Way / Paula Gerson -- 29 "The Scattered Limbs of the Giant": Recollecting Medieval Architectural Revivals / Tina Waldeier Bizzarro -- 30 The Modern Medieval Museum / Michelle P. Brown.