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This study analyzes late medieval paintings of personified death in Bohemia, arguing that Bohemian iconography was distinct from the body of macabre painting found in other Central European regions during the same period. The author focuses on a variety of images from late medieval Bohemia, examining how they express the imagination, devotion, and anxieties surrounding death in the Middle Ages.

Medievalists have much to gain from a thoroughgoing contemplation of place. If landscapes are windows onto human activity, they connect us with medieval people, enabling us to ask questions about their senses of space and place. In A Place to Believe In Clare Lees and Gillian Overing bring together scholars of medieval literature, archaeology, history, religion, art history, and environmental studies to explore the idea of place in medieval religious culture. The essays in A Place to Believe In...

This catalogue was published in 1996 to accompany an innovative exhibition, Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting, 1800-1940, organized by the Frick Art Museum and the Palmer Museum of Art. With works of art borrowed from numerous prominent institutions-including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago-the exhibition focused not on the objects themselves but rather on the motivations and methods that led collectors to bring medieval art to America. The catalog...

This text examines the Chapter House and Pyx Chamber, in the Great Cloister of Westminster Abbey, which formed part of the medieval Benedictine monastery. Both Chapter House and Pyx Chamber are now in the care of English Heritage.

Set on a rocky outcrop overlooking the River Rye, the ruins of Helmsley Castle still dominate the town. The castle was first established in the 1120s by Walter Espec, one of the most prominent nobles in England at the time. The castle was extended and enhanced by its various owners throughout the Middle Ages, most notably in the 14th century, when alterations are likely to have been made from King Edward III's visit to the castle in 1334. By the 16th century, the medieval buildings were inadequa...

Northamptonshire has proved to be a treasure-house of medieval stained glass, including major monuments such as Lowick and Stanford on Avon. The quantity and range of the glazing at Stanford on Avon, in particular, provides unsurpassed material for the study of English parish church glazing. This first detailed study of the county's medieval stained glass contains over 100 entries, ranging in date from Anglo-Saxon times to the mid-sixteenth century. The range of images, the evidence of patronage...

Studies of the icon in Byzantium have tended to focus on the iconoclastic era of the eighth- and ninth-centuries. This study shows that discussion of the icon was far from settled by this lengthy dispute. While the theory of the icon in Byzantium was governed by a logical understanding that had limited painting to the visible alone, the four authors addressed in this book struggled with this constraint. Symeon the New Theologian, driven by a desire for divine vision, chose, effectively, to disre...

Rome and Religion in the Medieval World provides a panoramic and interdisciplinary exploration of Rome and religious culture. The studies build upon or engage Thomas F.X. Noble’s interest in Rome, especially his landmark contributions to the origins of the Papal States and early medieval image controversies. Scholars from a variety of disciplines offer new viewpoints on key issues and questions relating to medieval religious, cultural and intellectual history. Each study explores different dimen...

On permanent exhibition at The Cloisters, in New York, seven late Gothic tapestries portray the Hunter of the Unicorn. Like the unicorn himself, they are one of the marvels of the world, for in no other work of art anywhere is the pursuit and capture of this magical creatures presented in such astonishing detail, with such command of pictorial verisimilitude and symbolic intention. In a duality not rare in the late Middle Ages, the imagery is both secular and religious. The references to love,...

This study discusses how a society whose intellectual framework was founded on stasis and regression accommodated innovation. The Spanish church in the 11th century faced this problem when required to abandon the Mozarabic liturgy in favour of Roman texts. This text examines liturgical manuscripts contemporary with this change, and reveals how the new liturgy was introduced and received. The main subjects of this investigation are a group of liturgical manuscripts from the Silos corpus held in t...

Zahlreiche mitteleuropaische Tafelgemalde des 15. Jahrhunderts nehmen Bezug auf asthetische Phanomene an ihrem ursprunglichen Aufstellungort. Diese Rekurse werden in Gemalden des Heisterbacher Altars, des Kirchenvater-Altars von Michael Pacher, des Nurnberger Augustiner-Altars und des Bartholomaus-Altars naher bestimmt; ausfuhrlich werden ihre Funktionen wie die Vermittlungsleistung, die verschiedenen Auspragungen asthetischer Reflexion sowie ein inharenter Ikonoklasmus eroertert. Im Fokus stehe...

A unique medieval story, told over a 400-year period in the form of carvings, created by illiterate garrison soldiers, local stonemasons and simple yeomen, on the stone walls and a wooden door in a small room on the second floor of the keep of a northern Border fortress ...Carlisle Castle.