A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe(Blackwell Companions to Art History)

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 highly successful companion, including 11 new articles Comprehensive coverage ranging from vision, materiality, and the artist through to architecture, sculpture, and painting Contains full-color illustrations throughout, plus notes on the book’s many distinguished contributors  A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, Second Edition is an exciting and varied study that provides essential reading for students and teachers of Medieval art.

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

About the Author :
Conrad Rudolph is Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of California, Riverside. He is an elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and a former Guggenheim and Getty Fellow.

Review :
"The advent of a new millennium is an opportunity to take stock.[Wiley]-Blackwell ... has begun to do just that, inauguratingseveral ambitious series whose aim is to map the past, present, andfuture of the discipline of art history. The scholar wishing tolocate her or his own research and approach in relation to thebroad sweep of medieval art history would do well to begin here.For medievalists working today and in future generations, ACompanion to Medieval Art will be a valuable referencetool, and, indeed, an inspiration." (CAA Reviews, November2008) "The scholarship is of the highest caliber. The endnotes andbibliographies are exhaustive and are excellent sources of materialfor further inquiry. An important resource for advancedundergraduates and scholars ready to take their studies in medievalart to the next level. Summing Up Essential. Upper-divisionundergraduates and up."--CHOICE, December 2006