History of Art: Byzantine & Medieval Art c 500 CE to c 1400

An exquisite fine art edition of St John's Gospel, illuminated by artist-calligrapher Jane Sullivan. Inspired by Celtic art and the beautiful illum...

This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts. It is intende...

This anthology honors Lawrence Nees expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from ...

Aesthetic acts and artifacts are conditioned just as much by their materials as by the medial processes in which they are embedded. This interdisc...

This anthology honors Lawrence Nees expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from ...

This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and p...

Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, lingu...

The planning history of St. Peter's in Rome at the beginning of the 16th century has been an important topic of art historical research since the ...

From a modern perspective, the secular and religious spheres separated at the close of the late mediaeval period. This study is the first to make c...

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term intersectionality was coined in 1989, the existence of margina...

Dieses Buch ist die erste monographische Studie zum Goldgrund in der italienischen Tafelmalerei. Anhand der Tafelbilder Fra Angelicos zeigt Saskia ...

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term intersectionality was coined in 1989, the existence of margina...

Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civiliz...

Experiencing the Last Judgement opens up new ways of understanding a Byzantine image type that has hitherto been considered largely uniform in its ...

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in ant...

The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audien...

The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the foc...

The rebirth of realistic representation in Italy around 1300 led to the materialization of a pictorial language, which dominated Western art until ...

This book is an outcome of the British archaeological association conference on Medieval Art, architecture and archaeology in the city and its vici...

In 1559 and 1561, the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock issued an unprecedented series of landscape prints known today simply as the Small La...

This collection of essays considers artistic works that deal with the body without a visual representation. It explores a range of ways to represen...

In 1559 and 1561, the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock issued an unprecedented series of landscape prints known today simply as the Small La...

Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civiliz...

This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted gateways of churches in the nort...

Relations between Byzantium and its neighbours are the focus of this volume. The papers address questions of cultural exchange, with special attent...

Tabbaas Transformation offers an innovative approach to understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and architecture during the oft...

Experiencing the Last Judgement opens up new ways of understanding a Byzantine image type that has hitherto been considered largely uniform in its ...

Examining the history of altar decorations, this study of the visual liturgy grapples with many of the previous theoretical frameworks to reveal th...

Ohne Ornament, so schreibt Leon Battista Alberti in seinem für die Architekturtheorie der Neuzeit grundlegenden Traktat über die Baukunst, könn...

Essays on the chronology and interpretation of the Byzantine mosaics of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki contains the finest collection of surviving Byza...