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A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe.

• Brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe.
• Contains over 30 original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays by renowned and emergent scholars.
• Covers 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.

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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.

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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.

Author Biography

Conrad Rudolph is Professor of Medieval Art at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Violence and Daily Life: Reading, Art, and Polemics in the Cîteaux Moralia in Job (1997) and Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela (2004).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors xiii Series Editor's Preface xix Preface xx 1 Introduction: A Sense of Loss: An Overview of the Historiography of Romanesque and Gothic Art 1 
Conrad Rudolph 2 Vision 44 
Cynthia Hahn 3 Reception of Images by Medieval Viewers 65 
Madeline Harrison Caviness 4 Narrative 86 
Suzanne Lewis 5 Formalism 106 
Linda Seidel 6 Gender and Medieval Art 128 
Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz 7 Gregory the Great and Image Theory in Northern Europe during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 151 
Herbert L. Kessler 8 Art and Exegesis 173 
Christopher G. Hughes 9 Whodunnit? Patronage, the Canon, and the Problematics of Agency in Romanesque and Gothic Art 193 
Jill Caskey 10 Collecting (and Display) 213 
Pierre Alain Mariaux 11 The Concept of Spolia 233 
Dale Kinney 12 The Monstrous 253 
Thomas E. A. Dale 13 Making Sense of Marginalized Images in Manuscripts and Religious Architecture 274 
Laura Kendrick 14 Romanesque Architecture 295 
Eric Fernie 15 Romanesque Sculpture in Northern Europe 314 
Colum Hourihane 16 Modern Origins of Romanesque Sculpture 334 
Robert A. Maxwell 17 The Historiography of Romanesque Manuscript Illumination 357 
Adam S. Cohen 18 The Study of Gothic Architecture 382 
Stephen Murray 19 Gothic Sculpture from 1150 to 1250 403 
Martin Büchsel 20 Gothic Manuscript Illustration: The Case of France 421 
Anne D. Hedeman 21 Glazing Medieval Buildings 443 
Elizabeth Carson Pastan 22 Toward a Historiography of the Sumptuous Arts 466 
Brigitte Buettner 23 East Meets West: The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States 488 
Jaroslav Folda 24 Gothic in the East: Western Architecture in Byzantine Lands 510 
Tassos C. Papacostas 25 Architectural Layout: Design, Structure, and Construction in Northern Europe 531 
Marie-Thérèse Zenner 26 Sculptural Programs 557 
Bruno Boerner 27 Cistercian Architecture 577 
Peter Fergusson 28 Art and Pilgrimage: Mapping the Way 599 
Paula Gerson 29 "The Scattered Limbs of the Giant": Recollecting Medieval Architectural Revivals 619 
Tina Waldeier Bizzarro 30 The Modern Medieval Museum 639 
Michelle P. Brown Index 656  

Review

"The 30 incisive and methodologically sophisticated essays in this Companion boldly refashion and redescribe an entire field of study: a must-read for any and all fascinated by art history's powers to explain and illuminate." Judson J. Emerick, Pomona College
"These wide-ranging essays provide a lucid overview of the state of medieval art history today, shedding light on the richness and complexity of both our historical materials and the methods by which they have been approached." Jacqueline E. Jung, University of California, Berkeley
.,."the scholarship is of the highest caliber. The endnotes and bibliographies are exhaustive and are excellent sources of material for further inquiry. An important resource for advanced undergraduates and scholars ready to take their studies in medieval art to the next level. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and up."--CHOICE, December 2006

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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.

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• Brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe.
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• Contains over 30 original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays by renowned and emergent scholars.
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• Covers the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives.
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• Features an international and ambitious range - from reception, Gregory the Great, collecting, and pilgrimage art, to gender, patronage, the marginal, spolia, and manuscript illumination.

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