Medieval Art 250-1450

PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION How to Use This Book Five Guiding Principles The Seven Features of Each Chapter CHAPTER ONE. Liminality and Transformation: 250-450 Approach Box 1.1. Thinkers: The Concept of the Threshold Audience Box 1.2 What's in a name? Early Christian and Late Antique Religious Art in the Later Roman Empire The Earliest Christian Images Dura-Europos: House-church, Mithraeum, and Synagogue Religious Art in Burial Sites Sculptures of the Good Shepherd and Jonah The Reign of Constantine: Christianity on an Imperial Scale in Rome The Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine and The Arch of Constantine Old St. Peter's Santa Costanza The Lateran Baptistery Junius Bassus Sarcophagus Moving East: Constantinople, Egypt, and Jerusalem The Establishing of Constantinople Christianity and Monasticism in Egypt The White Monastery Jerusalem and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher Box 1.3 Period Text: Etheria (Egeria): The Pilgrimage of Etheria Box 1.4 Medieval Goes Pop: The Holy Land Experience The Early Fifth Century in Rome and Ravenna Santa Pudenziana in Rome Santa Sabina in Rome Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome Galla Placidia and Ravenna Conclusions and Questions for Discussion Cross-Temporal Exploration: Liminality Selected Bibliography CHAPTER TWO. Embodiment and Patronage: 450-650 Approach Box 2.1 Thinkers: The Concept of Embodiment Audience Box 2.2 What's in a name? Byzantine Ravenna: Arians and Orthodoxy The Orthodox Baptistery The Arian Baptistery Theodoric's Mausoleum Byzantium: Imperial Power in the East Box 2.3 Medieval Goes Pop: Assassin's Creed: Revelations Constantinople's Churches before Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia Box 2.4 Period Text: Procopius: De aedificiis (On Buildings) A Sixth-Century Pyx The Barberini Ivory Manuscripts The Vienna Dioscorides The Garima Gospels The Vienna Genesis The Rabbula Gospels Imperial and Papal Presence in the Italian Peninsula Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna San Vitale in Ravenna Sant'Apollinare in Classe Monastic and Pilgrimage art in Egypt and the Holy Land The Monastery on Mt. Sinai The Monastery at Bawit Relics from the Holy Land Conclusions and Questions for Discussion Cross-Temporal Exploration: Embodiment throughout the Middle Ages Selected Bibliography CHAPTER THREE. Migrations and Materiality: 600-800 Approach Box 3.1 Thinkers: Materiality Audience Box 3.2 What's in a name? Insular, Hiberno-Saxon, and Anglo-Saxon Monasticism and Spiritual Migration St. Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury The Monasteries of St. Peter's in Wearmouth and St. Paul at Jarrow Box 3.3 Period Text: Bede. The Lives of The Abbots of Weremouth and Jarrow The Monastery of Skellig Michael Monastic Saints and their Relics St. Cuileáin's Bell The Cathach of St. Columba and Other Relics The Relics of St. Cuthbert The Persistence of Buried Objects Sutton Hoo and the Tomb of King Raedwald The Staffordshire Hoard The Ardagh Chalice Sculpture in Stone and Bone The Ruthwell Cross The Franks Casket The Matter of Manuscripts The Book of Durrow The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Codex Amiatinus The Book of Kells Box 3.4 Medieval Goes Pop: The Secret of Kells Conclusions and Questions for Discussion Cross-Temporal Exploration: Materiality throughout the Middle Ages Selected Bibliography CHAPTER FOUR. Images and Empires: 750-900 Approach Box 4.1 Thinkers: Appropriation Audience Box 4.2 What's in a Name? The Carolingian Renaissance Recreating Imperial Tradition Charlemagne's Palace Chapel The Godescalc Gospel Lectionary A Carolingian Ivory Book Cover The First Bible of Charles the Bald An Equestrian Sculpture Crystal Objects and Royal Patronage Iconoclasm in the Byzantine Empire and the Carolingian Response Box 4.3 Period Text: Theodulf of Orléans, Opus Caroli regis Theodulf's Oratory in Germigny-des-Prés, France The End of Iconoclasm in Byzantium Box 4.4 Medieval Goes Pop: Appropriation Building Monastic Traditions The Monastery of Saint-Riquier Abbey Church at Corvey The Plan of St. Gall Monastic Manuscripts: The Ebbo Gospels and the Utrecht Psalter Islam and Christianity in Spain: The Great Mosque of Córdoba Before the Mosque: The Church of St. Vincent The Construction of the Mosque The 10th-Century Mihrab and Later Changes to the Mosque Conclusions and Questions for Discussion Cross-Temporal Explorations: Appropriation Across the Middle Ages Selected Bibliography CHAPTER FIVE. Encounters and Exchanges: 900-1030 Approach Box 5.1 Thinkers: Race and Medieval Studies Audience Box 5.2 What's in a name? Mozarabic Connections: Art on the Move The Cuerdale Hoard Box 5.3 Medieval Goes Pop: Vikings on the Screen Byzantine Ivories Leire/Pamplona Casket Magdeburg ivories Conversions, Conflicts, and Co-existence The Holy Lance The Jelling Stones Box 5.4 Period Text: Hallfreðr Óttarsson, Poem on Conversion to Christianity San Miguel de Escalada Beatus Apocalypse Manuscripts Power and Alterity The Marriage Charter of Theophanu The Lothar Cross St. Michael's of Hildesheim Bernward's Bronze Doors Muiredach's cross Bodies and Difference Gero Crucifix Fresco of Bishop Petros from Pachoras, Nubia Gospels of Otto III Menologion of Basil II The Wonders of the East Conclusions and Questions for Discussion Cross-Temporal Explorations: Encounters and Exchanges throughout the Middle Ages Selected Bibliography CHAPTER SIX. Nature and Landscape: 1030-1140 Approach Box 6.1 Thinkers: Ecocriticism Audience Box 6.2 What's in a Name? Romanesque Maps, Architecture, and Claiming Land The Cotton World Map The Bayeux Embroidery Durham Cathedral Palatine Chapel, Palermo Khachkar from Armenia Nature in the Earthly City Montecassino and Sant'Angelo in Formis The Monastery in Daphni, Greece San Clemente in Rome Heavenly City in Nature Christianization of Stone worship at Monteneuf Monsters at Church-Sheela Na-Gigs and a Capital from Chauvigny Cistercian Manuscripts and Toiling the Earth Box 6.3 Period text: Bernard of Clairvaux, Apology Marvelous Materials in the Sanctuary Herriman and Ida Cross The Portable Altar of Roger of Helmarshausen Ivory Plaque of St. Aemilian The Landscape of Pilgrimage and Crusade Santiago de Compostela: Pilgrimage and Geopolitical Landscapes Box 6.4 Medieval Goes Pop: Virtual Pilgrimage and Eco-Tourism in the 21st Century Cluny III: Monasticism and Pilgrimage Autun Cathedral: Building Pilgrimage Abbey of Mary Magdalene in Vézelay: Pilgrimage and Crusade Conclusions and Questions for Discussion Cross-Temporal Explorations: Nature and Landscape Throughout the Middle Ages Selected Bibliography CHAPTER SEVEN. Crusade and Conquest: 1140-1230 Approach Box 7.1 Thinkers: Postcolonialism Audience Box 7.2 What's in a Name? Geographic and Religious Identities The Holy Land and Queen Melisende The Melisende Psalter The Holy Sepulcher The Tomb of the Virgin Mary Box 7.3 Medieval goes Pop: Kingdom of Heaven Hisn al-Akrad (Krak des Chevaliers) Relocating the Holy Land Abbot Suger and St. Denis Box 7.4 Period Text: Abbot Suger, De Administratione (On What was Done During His Administration) Lalibela, Ethiopia San Marco in Venice Reliquaries and Manuscripts in the Holy Roman Empire The Stavelot Triptych The Shrine of the Three Kings Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias Herrad of Hohenberg's Hortus Deliciarum Courtly and Crusading Imagery The Troubadour Casket Modena Cathedral Itinerant Holy Land and the Cult of the Virgin Mary at Chartres Cathedral Chartres and the Cult of the Virgin Chartres's Royal Portal The Labyrinth at Chartres Conclusions and Questions for Discussion Cross-Temporal Exploration: Post-Colonialism Selected Bibliography CHAPTER EIGHT. Narrative and Devotion: 1230-1320 Approach Box 8.1 Thinkers: Narrative Theory Audience Box 8.2 What's in a Name? Gothic Mapping Narrative: Space and Time Narrative in the Cathedral Chartres Cathedral-Architecture and Stained Glass The Jubé of Chartres Cathedral Naumburg Cathedral Reims Cathedral Box 8.3 Medieval Goes Pop: Medieval Times Narratives in Devotional Spaces The Regensburg Pentateuch St. Maurice at Magdeburg Cathedral Nicola Pisano, Siena Cathedral Pulpit Norwich Cathedral Cloister Franciscan Narratives Box 8.4 Period Text: Thomas of Celano, First Life of St. Francis Bonaventura Berlinghieri's Altarpiece of St. Francis San Francesco, Assisi Cimabue's Crucifixion Narratives for Nobility and the Wealthy Cantigas de Santa Maria The Douce Apocalypse Sainte Chapelle, Paris The Arena Chapel, Padua Conclusions and Questions for Discussion Cross-Temporal Exploration: Narrative Selected Bibliography CHAPTER NINE. Identity and Performance: 1320-1450 Approach Box 9.1 Thinkers: Queer Theory Audience Domesticating Devotion The Hours of Jeanne D'Evreux The Très Riches Heures of Jean, Duc de Berry The Hours of Catherine of Cleeves The Golden Haggadah Objects of Medieval Love Box 9.2 Period Text: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Ivory Mirror Back An Ivory Comb Box 9.3 Medieval Goes Pop: Modern RomComs (Romantic Comedies) Women on Top: Aristotle and Phyllis and a Bawdy Badge Celebrating Birth Salvation, Illness, and Healing The Facade of Orvieto Cathedral The Triumph of Death at the Camposanto in Pisa The Strozzi Chapel Opicinis de Canistris A Medical Manuscript Devotion and Intimacy The Wound of Christ The Man of Sorrows The Rohan Book of Hours Sculpture of Christ and St. John the Evangelist Shrine Madonna The St. Wenceslas Chapel in Prague Box 9.4 What's in a name: The End of the Middle Ages? Conclusions and Questions for Discussion Cross-Temporal Themes: Gender and Queer Identity throughout the Middle Ages Selected Bibliography GLOSSARY OF TERMS INDEX

Author Nancy M. Thompson , Professor of Art and Art History, St. Olaf College, UNITED STATES

Author Anne F. Harris , President, Grinnell College, UNITED STATES

Nancy M. Thompson is Professor of Art and Art History at St. Olaf College. Anne F. Harris is President of Grinnell College.

"Medieval Art, 250-1450: Making, Matter, and Meaning is a hybrid thematic-chronological textbook that uses an interesting selection of images to explore key issues in medieval, medievalist, and modern culture."--Asa Simon Mittman, California State University, Chico

"This text breaks up the old art historical narrative and focus on Western Europe and expands into Byzantium, Islamic kingdoms, Nubia, and elsewhere. Medieval Art, 250-1450 focuses on medium, race, embodiment, and other relevant and interesting topics. I think it will make students understand the relevance and fascination of medieval art in ways that other texts do not."--Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross

"Medieval Art, 250-1450: Making, Matter, and Meaning is a thoughtful, theoretically informed, and clear survey of the art of medieval Christian Europe."--Maeve Doyle, Eastern Connecticut State University