Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Early Medieval/Romanesque/Gothic Art
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2003

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Abend-David, Ilana, “The Heribert Shrine” (SUNY Binghamton, B. Abou-El-Haj)

Ataoguz, J. Kirsten, “Martyrs, Monks, and the End of Time in the Church of Saint John in Müstair” (Harvard, I. Kalavrezou)

Bauer-Smith, Charlotte, “Visual Constructions of Corporate Identity and Exempla for the University of Paris, 1200–1500” (UIUC, A. Hedeman)

Borland, Jennifer, “Anxiety and Abjection: Cultural Crisis in Twelfth-Century Images of the Female Body” (Stanford, S. Lewis)

Boyce, Elizabeth, “The Miracle of the Virgin: The Illustrated Manuscripts of Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Notre Dame” (Yale, W. Cahn)

Brown, Peter Scott, “The Style and Iconography of Romanesque Art in Bearn: Regionalism and Local Meaning in a Regional Product of the ‘International’ Romanesque Style” (Yale, W. Cahn)

Bruck, Laura K., “Word into Deed: Text and Image in Thirteenth-Century Parisian Portable Bibles” (Northwestern, S. Hindman)

Canejo, Cynthia, “Transforming Early Gothic Form: The Cistercian Abbey of Pontigny and Northern Burgundian Architecture” (UC Santa Barbara, C.E. Armi)

Erhardt, Michelle, “Penitence, Power, and Patronage: The Trecento Fresco Decoration of the Rinuccini Chapel of Santa Croce, Florence” (Indiana, B. Cole)

Evalds, Valija, “Regularis Concordia: The Development of the Monastic Cloister in England” (Yale, W. Cahn)

Foster-Campbell, Megan H., “Reading Pilgrimage: Pilgrims’ Badges in Late Medieval Devotional Texts” (UIUC, A. Hedeman)

Gerry, Kathryn, “The Alexis Quire and Its Role within the Saint Albans Psalter” (Johns Hopkins, H. Kessler)

Geymonat, Ludovico, “The Pictorial Program of the Parma Baptistery” (Princeton, S. Cúrčić)

Hadley, Margaret, “The Yale Missal, Beinecke Library, MS 425” (Yale, W. Cahn)

Heath, Anne, “Framing Medieval Devotion: The Display of Relics in the Abbey Church of Saint-Germain and the Cathedral of Saint-Etienne, Auxerre, 1200–1400” (Brown, S. Bonde)

Kibbey, D. Marshall, “Historical Assemblage and the Aggregate Object in the Later Middle Ages” (Yale, C. Wood)

Killian, Kyle, “Landscapes of Saint-Pierre d’Orbais: The Anthropology of Medieval Monastic Architecture” (Columbia, S. Murray)

Klima, Alice, “A Study of Roudnice Abbey” (Brown, S. Bonde)

Kralik, Christine, “Structuring Lay Devotional Experience: Illuminations of the Three Living and the Three Dead in Late Medieval Manuscripts” (Toronto, J. Caskey)

Lachat, Isabelle, “Offering the Sacred Word: The Gospels of S. Maria ad Martyres (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, Cod. 23) and Carolingian Court Taste in the Early Ninth Century” (Delaware, L. Nees)

Locke, Alison, “Visuality and Experience in the Twelfth-Century Church of Castel Sant’Elia near Nepi” (Yale, M. Georgopoulou)

Madsen, Gamble, “Medieval Visions of the Godhead: Peter Lombard’s Commentary on Psalm 109” (USC, C. Malone)

Pac, Teresa, “Churches at the Edge: A Comparative Study of Acculturation at the Baltic Shore in the Middle Ages” (SUNY Binghamton, C. Burroughs)

Prescher, Amy, “Saxon Convent Architecture: The Diocese of Halberstadt in the High Middle Ages” (Yale, W. Cahn)

Proctor-Tiffany, Mariah, “Portrait of a Medieval Patron: The Collection and Patronage of Clementia of Hungary” (Brown, S. Bonde)

Sciacca, Christine, “The Gradual and Sacramentary of Hainricus Sacrista (Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 711) and the Liturgy of Weingarten Abbey” (Columbia, S. Murray, H. Klein)

Schowalter, Kathleen, “Capetian Queens and Their Books: Art, Ideology, and Dynastic Continuity in Medieval France” (Johns Hopkins, D. Weiss, H. Kessler)

Thompson, Sarah Elizabeth, “Inventing ‘Gothic’: Notre-Dame d’Étampes and the Impact of Design Process on Architectural Change in the Ile-de-France, 1130–1160” (UC Santa Barbara, C. E. Armi)

Wagner, Stephen, “Silken Parchments: Design, Context, Patronage and Function of Textile-Inspired Pages in Ottonian and Salian Manuscripts” (Delaware, L. Nees)