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

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

by Dana Arnold (Series Editor), Conrad Rudolph (Editor), Dana Arnold (Series Editor), Conrad Rudolph (Editor)

Synopsis

A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edgescholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions inNorthern Europe.

  • Brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to theRomanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe.
  • Contains over 30 original theoretical, historical, andhistoriographic essays by renowned and emergent scholars.
  • Covers the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic andsub-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.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 1040
Edition: 2
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 19 Apr 2019

ISBN 10: 1119077729
ISBN 13: 9781119077725

Media Reviews
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

Author Bio
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 C teaux Moralia in Job (1997) and Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela (2004).