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

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christi...

Close technical examinations of the techniques and materials of Edward Steichen, Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski, Jasper Johns, and others are accompani...

Medieval prayer books held not only the devotions and meditations of Christianity, but also housed, slipped between pages, sundry notes, reminders,...

Carved and decorated stone-work is a rare survival from the period before the Norman Conquest. In Nottinghamshire it survives as large crosses and ...

How do we best see and understand the art of late antiquity? One of the perceived challenges of so doing is that this is a period whose visual prod...

A New York Times best art book of 2022New insights into the innovative multimedia work and early career of fourteenth-century Italian painter Simon...

An introduction to the design, production and use of luxury embroideries in medieval England (c. 12001530) In medieval Europe, embroidered textiles...

A vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day   The castle has long had a pivotal place in British life...

Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and archi...

In the beginning was the word, and in the Middle Ages were kings, princes, and high-ranking religious members whose wealth and influence produced i...

The continued influence and significance of the legend of Arthur are demonstrated by the articles collected in this volume. The enduring appeal an...

This illuminating exhibition catalogue interrogates the entanglement of the Islamic world with European visual culture during the medieval period a...

This fascinating and richly illustrated book accompanies The Medieval Body, the third in a series of vanguard exhibitions that places medieval mast...

This fascinating book tells the story of the building of William M. Voelkles collection of fakes and forgeries of manuscript illumination. With tho...

How does materiality affect artistic processes of object creation and reception? This volume examining carved boxes from the High and Late medieval...

A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through t...

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

As a 'biography' of the fourteenth-century illustrated Bible of Clement VII, an opposition pope in Avignon from 1378-94, this social history traces...