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Medieval Art 250-1450: Matter, Making, and Meaning is an innovative textbook for the undergraduate medieval art course. Using a case-study approach, the textbook engages students in close readings of medieval objects and buildings in their devotional and experiential contexts. It asks students to consider the fascinating trajectories of medieval images and objects, from invention to production and from reception to preservation. Building on the art historical traditions of iconography and social history, Medieval Art 250-1450 uses the critical methodologies of gender, race, class, queer theory, post-colonialism, narrative, embodiment, materiality, and eco-criticism to inform its case studies. These modes of analysis encourage debate and often demonstrate to students that ideas pertinent to contemporary issues are at stake in the study of medieval art. These critical methods support the image analyses in the text and intersect with the art historical content.

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Medieval Art, 250-1450: Making, Matter, and Meaning is a hybrid thematic-chronological textbook that uses an interesting selection of images to explore key issues in medieval, medievalist, and modern culture. -Asa Simon Mittman, California State University, Chico This text breaks up the old art historical narrative and focus on Western Europe and expands into Byzantium, Islamic kingdoms, Nubia, and elsewhere. Medieval Art, 250-1450 focuses on medium, race, embodiment, and other relevant and interesting topics. I think it will make students understand the relevance and fascination of medieval art in way that other texts do not. -Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross Medieval Art, 250-1450: Making, Matter, and Meaning is a thoughtful, theoretically-informed, and clear survey of the art of medieval Christian Europe. -Maeve Doyle, Eastern Connecticut State University

Medieval Art, 250-1450: Making, Matter, and Meaning is a hybrid thematic-chronological textbook that uses an interesting selection of images to explore key issues in medieval, medievalist, and modern culture. -Asa Simon Mittman, California State University, Chico This text breaks up the old art historical narrative and focus on Western Europe and expands into Byzantium, Islamic kingdoms, Nubia, and elsewhere. Medieval Art, 250-1450 focuses on medium, race, embodiment, and other relevant and interesting topics. I think it will make students understand the relevance and fascination of medieval art in way that other texts do not. -Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross Medieval Art, 250-1450: Making, Matter, and Meaning is a thoughtful, theoretically-informed, and clear survey of the art of medieval Christian Europe. -Maeve Doyle, Eastern Connecticut State University

""Medieval Art, 250-1450: Making, Matter, and Meaning is a hybrid thematic-chronological textbook that uses an interesting selection of images to explore key issues in medieval, medievalist, and modern culture.""-Asa Simon Mittman, California State University, Chico ""This text breaks up the old art historical narrative and focus on Western Europe and expands into Byzantium, Islamic kingdoms, Nubia, and elsewhere. Medieval Art, 250-1450 focuses on medium, race, embodiment, and other relevant and interesting topics. I think it will make students understand the relevance and fascination of medieval art in way that other texts do not.""-Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross ""Medieval Art, 250-1450: Making, Matter, and Meaning is a thoughtful, theoretically-informed, and clear survey of the art of medieval Christian Europe.""-Maeve Doyle, Eastern Connecticut State University

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Nancy M. Thompson is Professor of Art and Art History at St. Olaf College. Anne F. Harris is President of Grinnell College.

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