A Companion to Medieval Art Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe [Paperback]

• 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.

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 (lk