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A Companion to Medieval Art
Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe
Conrad Rudolph (Edited by)
9781119077725, Wiley
Hardback, published 19 April 2019
1040 pages
24.4 x 17.5 x 5.3 cm, 1.678 kg
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. 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.
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 2 Artifex and Opifex – The Medieval Artist 45 3 Vision 71 4 Materials, Materia, “Materiality” 95 5 Reception of Images by Medieval Viewers 119 6 Narrative, Narratology, and Meaning 147 7 Formalism 171 8 Gender and Medieval Art 195 9 Gregory the Great and Image Theory in Northern Europe During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 221 10 Iconography 245 11 Art and Exegesis 267 12 Whodunnit? Patronage, the Canon, and the Problematics of Agency in Romanesque and Gothic Art 287 13 Collecting (and Display) 309 14 The Concept of Spolia 331 15 The Monstrous 357 16 Making Sense of Marginalized Images in Manuscripts and Religious Architecture 383 17 Definitions and Explanations of the Romanesque Style in Architecture from the 1960s to the Present Day 407 18 Romanesque Sculpture in Northern Europe 417 19 Modern Origins of Romanesque Sculpture 439 20 The Historiography of Romanesque Manuscript Illumination 463 21 The Study of Gothic Architecture 489 22 France, Germany, and the Historiography of Gothic Sculpture 513 23 Gothic Manuscript Illustration: The Case of France 547 24 “‘Specially English’: Gothic Illumination c.1190 to the Early Fourteenth Century” 569 25 From Institutional to Private and from Latin to the Vernacular: German Manuscript Illumination in the Thirteenth Century 601 26 Glazing Medieval Buildings 627 27 Toward a Historiography of the Sumptuous Arts 657 28 Reliquaries 681 29 East Meets West: The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States 705 30 Gothic in the Latin East 729 31 Art and Liturgy in the Middle Ages 759 32 Architectural Layout: Design, Structure, and Construction in Northern Europe 777 33 Sculptural Programs 801 34 The Art and Architecture of Female Monasticism 823 35 Cistercian Architecture 857 36 Art and Pilgrimage: Mapping the Way 881 37 “The Scattered Limbs of the Giant”: Recollecting Medieval Architectural Revivals 907 38 Medieval Art Collections 933 39 The Modern Medieval Museum 957 Index 977
Conrad Rudolph
Beate Fricke
Cynthia Hahn
Aden Kumler
Madeline Harrison Caviness
Suzanne Lewis
Linda Seidel
Brigitte Kurmann‐Schwarz
Herbert L. Kessler
Shirin Fozi
Christopher G. Hughes
Jill Caskey
Pierre Alain Mariaux
Dale Kinney
Thomas E.A. Dale
Laura Kendrick
Eric Fernie
Colum Hourihane
Robert A. Maxwell
Adam S. Cohen
Stephen Murray
Jacqueline E. Jung
Anne D. Hedeman
Kathryn A. Smith
Michael Curschmann
Elizabeth Carson Pastan
Brigitte Buettner
Cynthia Hahn
Jaroslav Folda
Michalis Olympios
Eric Palazzo
Marie‐Therese Zenner
Bruno Boerner
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Peter Fergusson
Paula Gerson
Tina Waldeier Bizzarro
Janet T. Marquardt
Michelle P. Brown
Subject Areas: History of art / art & design styles [AC]
