Reassessing the roles of women as 'makers' of medieval art and architecture

Author(s)

• Martin, Therese

Bibliographic Information

Reassessing the roles of women as 'makers' of medieval art and architecture

edited by Therese Martin

（Visualising the Middle Ages, v. 7）

Brill, 2012

• hardback set : alk. paper
• hardback v. 1 : alk. paper
• hardback v. 2 : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [989]-1067) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

These volumes propose a renewed way of framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women. Today's standard division of artist from patron is not seen in medieval inscriptions-on paintings, metalwork, embroideries, or buildings-where the most common verb is 'made' (fecit). At times this denotes the individual whose hands produced the work, but it can equally refer to the person whose donation made the undertaking possible. Here twenty-four scholars examine secular and religious art from across medieval Europe to demonstrate that a range of studies is of interest not just for a particular time and place but because, from this range, overall conclusions can be drawn for the question of medieval art history as a whole. Contributors are Mickey Abel, Glaire D. Anderson, Jane L. Carroll, Nicola Coldstream, Maria Elena Diez Jorge, Jaroslav Folda, Alexandra Gajewski, Loveday Lewes Gee, Melissa R. Katz, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Pierre Alain Mariaux, Therese Martin, Eileen McKiernan Gonzalez, Rachel Moss, Jenifer Ni Ghradaigh, Felipe Pereda, Annie Renoux, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Stefanie Seeberg, Miriam Shadis, Ellen Shortell, Loretta Vandi, and Nancy L. Wicker.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS List of Color Plates (Full Volume) ix Color Plates (1-17) following xii List of Black and White Illustrations (Full Volume) xiii Acknowledgments xxxi Contributors' Biographies xxxiii Map xl VOLUME ONE 1. Exceptions and Assumptions: Women in Medieval Art History 1 Therese Martin Part One: DISPLAY AND CONCEALMENT 2. The Non-Gendered Appeal of Vierge Ouvrante Sculpture: Audience, Patronage, and Purpose in Medieval Iberia 37 Melissa R. Katz 3. Mere Embroiderers? Women and Art in Early Medieval Ireland 93 Jenifer Ni Ghradaigh 4. Erasures and Recoveries of Women's Contributions to Gothic Architecture: The Case of Saint-Quentin, Local N obility, and Eleanor of Vermandois 129 Ellen M. Shortell 5. The Roles of Women in Late Medieval Civic Pageantry in England 175 Nicola Coldstream Part Two: OWNERSHIP AND COMMUNITY 6. The Patronage Question under Review: Queen Blanche of Castile (1188-1252) and the Architecture of the Cistercian Abbeys at Royaumont, Maubuisson, and Le Lys 197 Alexandra Gajewski 7. Female Piety and the Building and Decorating of Churches, ca. 500-1150 245 Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg 8. 'Planters of great civilitie': Female Patrons of the Arts in Late Medieval Ireland 275 Rachel Moss 9. Reception, Gender, and Memory: Elisenda de Montcada and Her Dual-Effigy Tomb at Santa Maria de Pedralbes 309 Eileen McKiernan Gonzalez Part Three: COLLABORATION AND AUTHORSHIP 10. Women as Makers of Church Decoration: Illustrated Textiles at the Monasteries of Altenberg/Lahn, Rupertsberg, and Heiningen (13th-14th c.) 355 Stefanie Seeberg 11. Women in the Making: Early Medieval Signatures and Artists' Portraits (9th-12th c.) 393 Pierre Alain Mariaux 12. Melisende of Jerusalem: Queen and Patron of Art and Architecture in the Crusader Kingdom 429 Jaroslav Folda 13. Women and the Architecture of al-Andalus (711-1492): A Historiographical Analysis 479 Maria Elena Diez Jorge VOLUME TWO Part Four: FAMILY AND AUDIENCE 14. Portrayals of Women with Books: Female (Il)literacy in Medieval Jewish Culture 525 Katrin Kogman-Appel 15. Patterns of Patronage: Female Initiatives and Artistic Enterprises in England in the 13th and 14th Centuries 565 Loveday Lewes Gee 16. Concubines, Eunuchs, and Patronage in Early Islamic Cordoba 633 Glaire D. Anderson 17 The First Queens of Portugal and the Building of the Realm 671 Miriam Shadis Part Five: PIETY AND AUTHORITY 18. Subversive Obedience: Images of Spiritual Reform by and for Fifteenth-Century Nuns 705 Jane Carroll 19. Elite Women, Palaces, and Castles in Northern France (ca. 850-1100) 739 Annie Renoux 20. Redressing Images: Conflict in Context at Abbess Humbrina's Scriptorium in Pontetetto (Lucca) 783 Loretta Vandi 21. Emma of Blois as Arbiter of Peace and the Politics of Patronage 823 Mickey Abel Part Six: MEMORY AND MOTHERHOOD 22. Nimble-fingered Maidens in Scandinavia: Women as Artists and Patrons 865 Nancy L. Wicker 23. The Treasures and Foundations of Isabel, Beatriz, Elisenda, and Leonor: The Art Patronage of Four Iberian Queens in the Fourteenth Century 903 Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues 24. Liturgy as Women's Language: Two Noble Patrons Prepare for the End in Fifteenth-Century Spain 937 Felipe Pereda Bibliography 989 Index of People 1069 Index of Places 1091 Index of Subjects 1100

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Details

• NCID: BB12890562
• ISBN:
  • 9789004185555
  • 9789004228276
  • 9789004228283
• LCCN: 2012001118
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v. (xli, 1109 p., [31] p. of plates)
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : N5970
  • DC23 : 704/.0420902
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Art, Medieval
  • LCSH : Architecture, Medieval
  • LCSH : Women artists -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
  • LCSH : Women art patrons -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
  • LCSH : Art and society -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
  • LCSH : Architecture and society -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA85081627