A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe (Blackwell Companions to Art History)
Author(s): Conrad Rudolph
Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
Publication Date: 8 Mar. 2006
Language: English
Print length: 704 pages
ISBN-10: 9781405102865
ISBN-13: 1405102861
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
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
From the Back Cover
A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the architecture, manuscript illumination, and sculpture of the Romanesque and Gothic periods in Northern Europe. Comprising 30 original theoretical and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars, the volume covers the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives.
The book is international in scope and ambitious in its range, including coverage of reception, Gregory the Great, collecting, pilgrimage art, gender, patronage, the marginal, and spolia, as well as architecture, painting, and sculpture. This Companion will be a prized reference work for anyone studying this reinvigorated period of art history.
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 Citeaux Moralia in Job (1997) and Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela (2004).
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