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Call for Contributions: English Alabaster Sculptures in Context: Art, History and Historiography (edited volume)

The book aims at challenging the current limits within the field of research related to English alabasters, in order to establish a new model of study. Over the last century many studies on English alabasters have been published, including exhibition catalogues, list of documents and archival sources, catalogues raisonnés of the most important collections. AllContinue reading “Call for Contributions: English Alabaster Sculptures in Context: Art, History and Historiography (edited volume)”

Some good book offers from Brepols

On the occasion of Black Friday Brepols offersyou these 20 books for only € 20 each. Place your order now as this offer is only valid from 25 to 27 November 2016 and only applicable for orders placed on the brepols webshop.   The Vatican Necropoles Rome’s City of the Dead Liverani, G. Spinola, P. Zander €Continue reading “Some good book offers from Brepols”

New Publications: Relics, Identity, and Memory in Medieval Europe  Edited by M. Räsänen, G. Hartmann, E. J. Richards 

Relics, Identity, and Memory in Medieval Europe  Edited by M. Räsänen, G. Hartmann, E. J. Richards  ISBN 978-2-503-55502-7 BREPOLS PUBLISHERS This volume contributes to current discussions of the place of relics in devotional life, politics, and identity-formation, by illustrating both the power which relics were thought to emanate as well as the historical continuity in the significance assignedContinue reading “New Publications: Relics, Identity, and Memory in Medieval Europe  Edited by M. Räsänen, G. Hartmann, E. J. Richards “

New Publication: The Age of Opus Anglicanum, edited by M.A.Michael

This book attempts to re-assess the importance of English medieval embroidery as a unique cultural phenomenon. This volume, the first to appear in a series of Studies in English Medieval Embroidery, contains the papers delivered at a Symposium held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in February 2013, which was designed to re-vitalizeContinue reading “New Publication: The Age of Opus Anglicanum, edited by M.A.Michael”

New Publications: The Epiphany of Hieronymus Bosch, by D.H. Strickland

The Epiphany of Hieronymus Bosch: Imagining Antichrist and Others from the Middle Ages to the Reformation, by D.H. Strickland This study examines medieval Christian views of non-Christians and their changing political and theological significance as revealed in late-medieval and early-modern visual culture. Taking as her point of departure Hieronymus Bosch’s famous Epiphany triptych housed inContinue reading “New Publications: The Epiphany of Hieronymus Bosch, by D.H. Strickland”

New Publications: Jan de Beer, Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp

Jan de Beer, Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp Author: D. Ewing Brepols Publishers The first published monograph on the Antwerp painter Jan de Beer (c.1475-1527 /28), with an oeuvre catalogue. The Antwerp painter Jan de Beer (c.1475-1527/28) was highly esteemed in his lifetime and still famous forty years after his death, but then fell intoContinue reading “New Publications: Jan de Beer, Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp”

New Publications: Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination

Body-Worlds:  Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination  Author: K. Whittington Brepols Publishers In 1334, an Italian priest named Opicinus de Canistris fell ill and experienced a divine vision of continents and oceans transformed into human figures, a vision which inspired numerous drawings. While they relate closely to contemporary maps and seacharts, religious iconography,Continue reading “New Publications: Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination”

New Publications: Romanesque Cathedrals in Mediterranean Europe

Romanesque Cathedrals in Mediterranean Europe:  Architecture, Ritual and Urban Context Boto Varela, J. E.A. Kroesen (eds.) Brepols Publishers This volume explores the architecture and layout of Romanesque cathedrals in Europe, especially around the Mediterranean, paying special attention to liturgical ritual, church furnishings, iconography, and urban context. The architecture, interior settings and urban environment of RomanesqueContinue reading “New Publications: Romanesque Cathedrals in Mediterranean Europe”

New Publications

Viewing Greece: Cultural and Political Agency in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean  SEJ Gerstel (ed.) Brepols Publishers Multidisciplinary, geographically broad, and diachronic in scope, the papers in this volume consider the cultural and political agency of Greece as part of the late antique world, the Byzantine Empire, and the early modern Mediterranean.   DerivingContinue reading “New Publications”