Medieval Art 250-1450: Matter, Making, and Meaning [Paperback]

.Medieval Art 250-1450: Matter, Making, and Meaningis an innovative textbook for the undergraduate medieval art course. Using a case-study approach, the textbook engages students in close readings of medieval objects and buildings in their devotional and experiential contexts. It asks students to consider the fascinating trajectories of medieval images and objects, from invention to production and from reception to preservation.Building on the art historical traditions of iconography and social history,Medieval Art 250-1450uses the critical methodologies of gender, race, class, queer theory, post-colonialism, narrative, embodiment, materiality, and eco-criticism to inform its case studies. These modes of analysis encourage debate and often demonstrate to students that ideas pertinent to contemporary issues are at stake in the study of medieval art. These critical methods support the image analyses in the text and intersect with the art historical content.PREFACEACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONHow to Use This BookFive Guiding PrinciplesThe Seven Features of Each ChapterCHAPTER ONE. Liminality and Transformation: 250-450ApproachBox 1.1. Thinkers: The Concept of the ThresholdAudienceBox 1.2 What's in a name? Early Christian and Late AntiqueReligious Art in the Later Roman EmpireThe Earliest Christian ImagesDura-Europos: House-church, Mithraeum, and SynagogueReligious Art in Burial SitesSculptures of the Good Shepherd and JonahThe Reign of Constantine: Christianity on an Imperial Scale in RomeThe Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine and The Arch of ConstantineOld St. Peter'sSanta CostanzaThe Lateran BaptisteryJunius Bassus SarcophagusMoving East: Constantinople, Egypt, and JerusalemThe Establishing of ConstantinopleChristianity and Monasticism in EgyptThe White MonasteryJerusalem and the Church of the Holy SepulcherBox 1.3 Period Text: Etheria (Egeria): Tl#²