Art and Science of the Church Screen in Medieval Europe

SPIKE BUCKLOW is Director of Research at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. Professor Richard Marks FSA is a member of the History of Art Department at Cambridge University and specialises in medieval art, on which he has published extensively. He was born in Bedfordshire and has a long-standing interest in the county’s histor LUCY WRAPSON is Assistant to the Director at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. Donal Cooper is Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College. Recent work focuses on digital visualizations to reconstruct the historic aspects of Italian church interiors, and he is Co-Investigator on the Florence 4D mapping and modelling project. JULIAN LUXFORD is Professor in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. LUCY WRAPSON is Assistant to the Director at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. Professor Richard Marks FSA is a member of the History of Art Department at Cambridge University and specialises in medieval art, on which he has published extensively. He was born in Bedfordshire and has a long-standing interest in the county’s histor SPIKE BUCKLOW is Director of Research at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge.

• Framing the Rood in medieval England and Wales - Richard MarksScience and the screen - Spike BucklowTowards a new methodological approach for interpreting workshop activity and dating medieval church screens - Lucy WrapsonTexts and detexting on late medieval English church screens - David GriffithSacred Kingship, Genealogy and the Late Medieval Rood Screen: Catfield and beyond - Julian LuxfordWest Country rood screens: construction and practice - Hugh Harrison and Jeffrey WestThe polychromy of Devon screens: preliminary analytical results - Lucy Wrapson and Eddie SinclairMoving pictures on the Gothic choir screen - Jacqueline E. JungThe preserving power of Calvinism: pre-Reformation chancel screens in the Netherlands - Justin E. A. KroesenRecovering the lost rood screens of medieval and Renaissance Italy - Donal CooperChoir screens and rood lofts in Scandinavian parish churches before 1300 - Ebbe Nyborg

Not only provides a cogent and convenient summary of the state of research but also points the way forward for further work on the subject.