Romanesque and the Year 1000

Notes on contributors

Preface

Chapter 1

Barbara Franzé                       Image and society at Reichenau c. 1000

Chapter 2

Lindy Grant                            Transforming the kingdom: artistic patronage and the establishment of early Capetian kingship in France

Chapter 3

Eliane Vergnolle                     A monarch and his buildings: the case of Robert the Pious (996-1031)

Chapter 4

Claude Andrault-Schmitt       The birth of Romanesque architecture in Aquitaine in the light of the patronage of Duke William the Great (993-1031)

Chapter 5

Florian Meunier                      Precious book covers in gold and ivory (c. 970–c. 1030): between Carolingian tradition and new design

Chapter 6

Jesús Rodríguez Viejo                        In our founder’s image: cult and identity in Ottonian manuscript portraits of saints

Chapter 7

Rose Walker                           Order and disorder through the eyes of scribes and illuminators in the Kingdom of Pamplona c. 970 – C. 1000.

Chapter  8

Elizabeth V del Álamo           After al-Mansur: art in Castile 970-1030

Chapter  9

Jordi Camps                            Sculpture in Catalonia around the year 1000: ‘Corinthian’ capitals at Ripoll, Vic and Cornellà de Llobregat

Chapter  10

Cecily Hennessy                     Otto III and the widow Theophanu: a Byzantine court in the West?

Chapter 11

Tobias Schoo                          The cathedral, castle and market town of Halberstadt around the year 1000

Chapter 12

Shirin Fozi                              Unpacking the Ottonian sarcophagus 968-1022

Chapter 13

Wilfried Keil                          Willigis and his cathedral: the building of a new coronation church by the Archchancellor and Archbishop of Mainz

Chapter 14

Bruno Klein                            St Michael at Hildesheim as a magic machine

Chapter 15

Michele Vescovi                     Looking north: architecture in Emilia c. 1000

Chapter 16

Tomasz Weclawowicz            Imitatio Imperii in early medieval Poland: some remarks contingent on an archaeological survey

Chapter 17

Agata Gomolka                      When gold was silver and silver was straw: the treasure of saints and warriors in Poland c. 1000

Chapter 18

Béla Zsolt Szakács                 The year 1000 in Hungary: turning point or continuation

Chapter 19

Eric Fernie                              St Laurence at Bradford-on-Avon, St Michael at Hildesheim and the use of squares in their planning

Chapter 20

Richard Gem                           England 970-1030: architecture and the monumental arts of the monastic reform movement

Chapter 21

Marcello Angheben                The representation of the Old Testament God in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and the emergence of affective piety               

Chapter 22

Sophie Kelly                           Trinity and transformation at the turn of the millenium

Index

Biography

Gerhard Lutz is the Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Prior to this he was Curator and Associate Director at the Dom-Museum, Hildesheim (2009 –20). He has taught at the Technische Universität Dresden (2001–08), the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, the University of Bern and, since 2021, at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the ICMA, and is co-founder of the biennial conference series Forum Medieval Art. His publications are concerned with medieval sculpture and metalwork; he was co-editor of Christ on the Cross: The Boston Crucifix and the Rise of Monumental Wood Sculpture 970–1200 (2020) and was editor of Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster (2023).

John McNeill taught at Oxford University’s Department of Continuing Education and was Secretary of the British Archaeological Association, for whom he edited and contributed to volumes on Anjou, King’s Lynn and the Fens, the medieval cloister, and English medieval chantries. He was instrumental in establishing the BAA’s International Romanesque Conference Series and published widely on medieval architecture and architectural sculpture, particularly that associated with monastic precincts.

Richard Plant has taught at a number of institutions and worked for many years at Christie’s Education in London, where he was deputy academic director. His research interests lie in the buildings of the Anglo-Norman realm and the Holy Roman Empire, in particular in architectural iconography. He is Publicity Officer for the British Archaeological Association, and in addition to this volume, he co-edited Romanesque and the Past (2013), Romanesque Patrons and Processes (2018), Romanesque Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage (2020), and The Regional and Transregional in Romanesque (2021).