A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe

Conrad Rudolph

Wiley, Dec 21, 2009 - Art - 704 pages

A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe.

• Brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe.
• Contains over 30 original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays by renowned and emergent scholars.
• Covers the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives.
• Features an international and ambitious range - from reception, Gregory the Great, collecting, and pilgrimage art, to gender, patronage, the marginal, spolia, and manuscript illumination.

About the author

Conrad Rudolph is Professor of Medieval Art at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Violence and Daily Life: Reading, Art, and Polemics in the Cîteaux Moralia in Job (1997) and Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela (2004).

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe; Volume 3 of Blackwell Companions to Art History
• Editor: Conrad Rudolph
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Wiley, 2009
• ISBN: 1405198788, 9781405198783
• Length: 704 pages
• Subjects: Art / General; Art / History / General