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19 results in Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture

Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Italy
  • Image, Relic and Material Culture
  • Beth Williamson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 May 2024
    Print publication:
    18 December 2020
  • A ground-breaking study of the enigmatic and unique tabernacles from fourteenth-century Italy, which for the first time combined relics and images.

Late Medieval Lodging Ranges
  • The Architecture of Identity, Power and Space
  • Sarah Kerr
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 February 2024
    Print publication:
    03 October 2023
  • This book draws on architectural and archaeological analysis to consider the form, function, use and meaning of late medieval lodging ranges.

Graphic Devices and the Early Decorated Book

Stone Fidelity
  • Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture
  • Jessica Barker
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 January 2023
    Print publication:
    17 April 2020
  • Pioneering investigation of the popular 'double tomb' effigies in the Middle Ages.

Designing Norman Sicily

Tomb and Temple

Late Medieval Italian Art and its Contexts
  • Essays in Honour of Professor Joanna Cannon
  • Edited by Donal Cooper, Beth Williamson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    20 December 2022
    Print publication:
    29 November 2022
  • Joanna Cannon's scholarship and teaching have helped shape the historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art; this essay collection by her former students is a tribute to her work.

Insular Iconographies

The Ashburnham Pentateuch and its Contexts

The Marvellous and the Monstrous in the Sculpture of Twelfth-Century Europe
  • Kirk Ambrose
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    02 June 2021
    Print publication:
    15 August 2013
  • Representations of monsters and the monstrous are common in medieval art and architecture, from the grotesques in the borders of illuminated manuscripts to the symbol of the "green man", widespread inchurches and cathedrals. These mysterious depictions are frequently interpreted as embodying or mitigating the fears symptomatic of a "dark age". This book, however, considers an alternative scenario: in what ways did monsters in twelfth-century sculpture help audiences envision, perhaps even achieve, various ambitions? Using examples of Romanesque sculpture from across Europe, with a focus on France and northern Portugal, the author suggests that medieval representations of monsters could service ideals, whether intellectual, political, religious, and social, even as they could simultaneously articulate fears; he argues that their material presence energizes works of art in paradoxical, even contradictory ways. In this way, Romanesque monsters resist containment within modern interpretive categories and offer testimony to the density and nuance of the medieval imagination.

    Kirk Ambrose is Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado Boulder.

Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Sculpture
  • Representations from France, c.1100-1500
  • Marian Bleeke
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    29 May 2021
    Print publication:
    20 October 2017
  • What can medieval sculptural representations of women tell us about medieval women's experiences of motherhood? Presumably the work of male sculptors, working for clerical patrons, these sculptures are unlikely to have been shaped by women's maternal experiences during their production. Once produced, however, their beholders would have included women who were mothers and potential mothers, thus opening a space between the sculptures' intended meanings and other meanings liable to be produced by these women as they brought their own interests and concerns to these works of art.Building on theories of reception and response, this book focuses on interactions between women as beholders and a range of sculptures made in France in the twelfth through sixteenth centuries, aiming to provide insight into women's experiences of motherhood; particular sculptures considered include the Annunciation and Visitation from Reims cathedral, the femme-aux-serpents from Moissac, the transi of Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendome, the Eve from Autun, and a number of French Gothic Virgin and Child sculptures.Marian Bleeke is Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at Cleveland State University.

Early Medieval Stone Monuments
  • Materiality, Biography, Landscape
  • With contributions by Clíodhna O'Leary , Ing-Marie Back Danielsson , Iris Crouwers , Jenifer Ni Ghradaigh and Mark A. Hall
  • Edited by Howard Williams, Joanne Kirton, Meggen Gondek
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 May 2021
    Print publication:
    17 September 2015
  • Often fragmented and without context, early medieval inscribed and sculpted stone monuments of the fifth to eleventh centuries AD have been mainly studied via their shape, their decoration and the texts a fraction of them bear. This book, investigating stone monuments from Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia (including the important memorials at Iniscealtra, County Clare), advocates three relatively new, distinctive and interconnected approaches to the lithic heritage of the early Middle Ages. Building on recent theoretical trends in archaeology and material culture studies in particular, it uses the themes of materiality, biography and landscape to reveal how carved stones created senses of identity and history for early medieval communities and kingdom. An extensive introduction and eight chapters span the disciplines of history, art-history and archaeology, exploring how shaping stone in turn shaped and re-shaped early medieval societies.Howard Williams is Professor of Archaeology, University of Chester. Joanne Kirton is Project Manager, Big Heritage, Chester. Meggen Gondek is Reader in Archaeology, University of Chester.Contributors: Ing-Marie Back Danielsson, Iris Crouwers, Meggen Gondek, Mark A. Hall, Joanne Kirton, Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, Clíodhna O'Leary, Howard Williams.

Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture
  • Images of Learning in Europe, c.1100-1220
  • Laura Cleaver
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 May 2021
    Print publication:
    17 March 2016
  • On the facade of Chartres cathedral serene personifications of the arts of grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy present passers-by with a vision of education as an improving process leading to greater knowledge of God. The arts proved a popular subject in medieval imagery, and were included in manuscripts, stained-glass and luxury metalwork objects as well as onthe facades of churches. These idealized figures contrast with many textual accounts of education, in which authors recorded the hardships of student poverty and the temptations of drink and women tobe found in the cities where teachers were increasingly establishing themselves.
    This book considers how and why education was explored in the art and architecture of the twelfth century. Through analysis of imagery in a wide range of media, it examines how teachers and students sought to use images to enhance their reputations and the status of their studies. It also investigates how the ideal models often set out in imagery compared with contemporary practice in an era that saw significant changes, beginning with a shift away from monastic education and culminating in the appearance of the first universities.

    Laura Cleaver is Ussher Lecturer in Medieval Art at Trinity College Dublin.

The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800-c.1500
  • Edited by Philippa Turner, Jane Hawkes
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 November 2020
    Print publication:
    16 October 2020
  • New readings demonstrate the centrality of the rood to the visual, material and devotional cultures of the Middle Ages, its richness and complexity.

Imagining Anglo-Saxon England
  • Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia
  • Catherine E. Karkov
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    19 August 2020
    Print publication:
    20 March 2020
  • A fresh approach to the construction of "Anglo-Saxon England" and its depiction in art and writing.

English Alabaster Carvings and their Cultural Contexts

Art and Political Thought in Medieval England, c.1150–1350
  • Volume 14
  • Laura Slater
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 July 2019
    Print publication:
    19 October 2018
  • An exploration of how power and political society were imagined, represented and reflected on in medieval English art.

Church Monuments in South Wales, c.1200–1547

English Medieval Misericords
  • The Margins of Meaning
  • Paul Hardwick
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 May 2017
    Print publication:
    21 July 2011
  • Misericord carvings present a fascinating corpus of medieval art which, in turn, complements our knowledge of life and belief in the late middle ages. Subjects range from the sacred to the profane and from the fantastic to the everyday, seemingly giving equal weight to the scatological and the spiritual alike. Focusing specifically on England - though with cognisance of broader European contexts -this volume offers an analysis of misericords in relation to other cultural artefacts of the period. Through a series of themed "case studies", the book places misericords firmly within the doctrinal and devotional milieu in which they were created and sited, arguing that even the apparently coarse images to be found beneath choir stalls are intimately linked to the devotional life of the medieval English Church. The analysis is complemented by a gazetteer of the most notable instances.

    Dr Paul Hardwick is Professor in English, Leeds Trinity University College.