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Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism
Writing Images
Brad Prager
Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology.
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The Art and Architecture of English Benedictine Monasteries, 1300-1540: A Patronage History
Julian M. Luxford
This analysis of the patronage of Benedictine monasteries reveals much about both monastic life and material culture of the time.
[The author] created a new standard, transforming the way in which such studies must be conducted in the future. THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE
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Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales
Life, Death and Commemoration
Edited by Steven Gunn & Linda Monckton
The Tudor king who never was: Arthur's life and death newly examined by historians, art historians and archaeologists.
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The Bayeux Tapestry
Lucien Musset
A stunning frame-by-frame guide to the Bayeux Tapestry by one of its most knowledgeable experts.
A strikingly illustrated book, which reproduces in colour every centimetre of the surviving embroidery. [...] Admirably balanced and informed. SUNDAY TIMES
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The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations
Edited by Martin K. Foys, Karen Eileen Overbey & Dan Terkla
Demonstrates the value of recent interpretive approaches to this famous and iconic artefact, by examining the textile's materiality, visuality, reception and historiography, and its constructions of gender, territory and cultural memory.
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Bestiary
Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764
Richard Barber
A delightful translation of one of the finest, and most beautiful, examples of a medieval Bestiary.
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The Bury Bible
R.M. Thomson
A paperbound edition of the illuminations from The Bury Bible, affording an opportunity to appreciate some of the masterpieces of English romanesque art.
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The Chepman and Myllar Prints
Digitised Facsimiles with introduction, headnote & transcription
Edited by Sally Mapstone
Digitised facsimiles, with notes and transcription, of the earliest printed texts produced in Scotland.
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Daughters of Artemis
The Huntress in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Richard Almond
Evidence from manuscripts, tapestries, paintings and written documents shows the female huntress in action.
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Glory, Laud and Honour
The Arts of the Anglican Counter-Reformation
Graham Parry
A wide-ranging survey of the brief revival of religious art, architecture, music, and literature during the Counter-Reformation.
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The Green Man
Kathleen Basford
Delightful, oft-reprinted guide to the foliate heads so common in medieval sculpture. This was the first-ever monograph dedicated to the Green Man.
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Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England
Edited by Peter Cross & Maurice Keen
Discussion of display through a range of artefacts and in a variety of contexts: family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and authority.
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Illustrating Camelot
Barbara Tepa Lupack
An account in words and pictures of how the world of Camelot and King Arthur's knights was reflected in, and shaped by, book illustration. Includes 32 colour and 46 colour illustrations.
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King Arthur's Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation
Martin Biddle
Archival and scientific research reveal the origins and purpose of the Winchester Round Table.
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The Madonna of Humility
Development, Dissemination and Reception, c.1340-1400
Beth Williamson
A detailed analysis of an iconographic motif of huge significance in European art, the Virgin and Child seated.
Beth Williamson has opened up the reading of the image type in its devotional context in a stylish, beautifully written and thought- provoking study. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
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The Maps of Matthew Paris
Medieval Journeys through Space, Time and Liturgy
Daniel K. Connolly
An examination of the intricate cartography of Matthew Paris, and the meanings of the maps themselves.
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The Rosary Cantoral
Ritual & Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo
Lorenzo Candelaria
Unlocks the secrets behind the images and music of an important Spanish musical manuscript compiled for a brotherhood of suspected heretics ca. 1500.
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Thirteenth-Century Wall Painting of Salisbury Cathedral
Art, Liturgy, and Reform
Matthew M. Reeve
A revisionist study of the wall-paintings of Salisbury Cathedral, setting them in the context of thirteenth-century religious reform.
Exemplary in every respect, from the author's limpid prose to his lucid exposition of how a major, if irrevocably damaged, ensemble of paintings bears on the study of English Gothic art. SPECULUM
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The Troyes Mémoire: The Making of a Medieval Tapestry
Translated by Tina Kane
First English translation of a late fifteenth century manuscript containing instructions for designing a medieval tapestry - the only such to survive. |
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The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts
Texts, Owners & Readers
Edited by Ralph Hanna & Thorlac Turville-Petre
A survey of the history, holdings, decoration, and conservation of one of England's finest medieval libraries, with full catalogue. |
