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Author:   Conrad Rudolph (University of California at Riverside)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   1.216kg
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9781405198783

ISBN 10:   1405198788
Pages:   704
Publication Date:   04 December 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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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  

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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 <br> 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 <br> .,. 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

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

""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

Author Information

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).

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