1st Edition
The Long Lives of Medieval Art and Architecture
List of Figures
List of Color Plates
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Why the Long Lives of Medieval Art and Architecture? An Introduction, Jennifer M. Feltman
Essence and Continuity
How Long are the Lives of Medieval Buildings? Framing Spatio-temporalities in the Study of the Built World, Nicola Camerlenghi
Lost in Translation: Destroyed Sculpture, Invented Images, and the Long Life of the Virgin of Le Puy, Elisa A. Foster
Flying Pigs, Fiery Whirlwinds, and a 300-year Old Virgin: Costume and Continuity in a Sacred Performance, Laura Jacobus
Transformation
San Quirce de Burgos: One Medieval Transformation in the Life of a Romanesque Church, Amanda W. Dotseth
Recycling Santa Tecla: The Demolition and Continued Life of an Early Christian Basilica, Charles R. Morscheck
Picturing the Long Life of Notre-Dame de Louviers, Kyle G. Sweeney
Re-use, Recycle? The Long Life of an Unfinished French Book of Hours, Emily N. Savage
Narration
Resurrecting the Medieval Altar: Iberian Virgins in the Gothic Castilian Imagination and in Contemporary Museum Contexts, Maeve O’Donnell-Morales
The Portal from Coulangé: A Peripatetic Journey, Nancy Wu
Ownership, Censorship, and Digital Repatriation: Excavating Layers of History in the Carrow Psalter, Lynley Anne Herbert
Memory and Oblivion
Restoration, Revival, Remembrance: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of the Lorenzetti Chapter House Frescoes from San Francesco, Siena, Imogen Tedbury
The Victory Cross Redux: Ritual, Memory, and Politics in the Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Matilde Mateo
The Magdeburg Rider on Display in Modern Germany, William J. Diebold
Restoration
The Salvage of the Benevento Bronze Doors after World War II, Cathleen Hoeniger
Preservation, Restoration, and the Tomb of the "Founder" at Salisbury, Catherine Emma Walden
Understanding the Restoration at Chartres, Meredith Cohen
The Power of Absence: The Missing North Tower at Saint-Denis, Sarah Thompson
Index
Biography
Jennifer M. Feltman is a specialist in the art and architecture of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Europe. She has published on the Last Judgment programs at the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Lincoln and is editor and contributor to The North Transept of Reims Cathedral: Design, Construction, and Visual Programs (Routledge, 2016). She is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture at The University of Alabama, USA.
Sarah Thompson is an art historian focusing on Gothic architecture. Her research has addressed the concept of Gothic as a stylistic category, and she has published on medieval architectural design process and on the functions of Gothic ruins. Her current book project, Picturing Gothic, analyzes the post-medieval visual representation of Gothic architecture. She is Associate Professor of Art History at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.
'The editors have gathered together wide-ranging articles, authored by 17 recent and seasoned scholars who examine buildings, sculpture, paintings, metal-work, the sumptuous arts, and book illumination, all grounded in the European Middle Ages ... this thought-provoking anthology reminds us of the inherent value of diachronic analysis' - Speculum, 96/1.
