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

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.

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  

About the Author :
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).

Review :
"The advent of a new millennium is an opportunity to take stock. [Wiley]-Blackwell … has begun to do just that, inaugurating several ambitious series whose aim is to map the past, present, and future of the discipline of art history. The scholar wishing to locate her or his own research and approach in relation to the broad sweep of medieval art history would do well to begin here. For medievalists working today and in future generations, A Companion to Medieval Art will be a valuable reference tool, and, indeed, an inspiration." (CAA Reviews, November 2008) "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