Long Lives of Medieval Art and Architecture

Jennifer M. Feltman is a specialist in the art and architecture of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Europe. She has published on the Last Judgment programs at the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Lincoln and is editor and contributor to The North Transept of Reims Cathedral: Design, Construction, and Visual Programs (Routledge, 2016). She is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture at The University of Alabama, USA.Sarah Thompson is an art historian focusing on Gothic architecture. Her research has addressed the concept of Gothic as a stylistic category, and she has published on medieval architectural design process and on the functions of Gothic ruins. Her current book project, Picturing Gothic, analyzes the post-medieval visual representation of Gothic architecture. She is Associate Professor of Art History at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.

• List of FiguresList of Color PlatesList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsWhy the Long Lives of Medieval Art and Architecture? An Introduction, Jennifer M. FeltmanEssence and ContinuityHow Long are the Lives of Medieval Buildings? Framing Spatio-temporalities in the Study of the Built World, Nicola CamerlenghiLost in Translation: Destroyed Sculpture, Invented Images, and the Long Life of the Virgin of Le Puy, Elisa A. FosterFlying Pigs, Fiery Whirlwinds, and a 300-year Old Virgin: Costume and Continuity in a Sacred Performance, Laura JacobusTransformationSan Quirce de Burgos: One Medieval Transformation in the Life of a Romanesque Church, Amanda W. DotsethRecycling Santa Tecla: The Demolition and Continued Life of an Early Christian Basilica, Charles R. MorscheckPicturing the Long Life of Notre-Dame de Louviers, Kyle G. SweeneyRe-use, Recycle? The Long Life of an Unfinished French Book of Hours, Emily N. SavageNarrationResurrecting the Medieval Altar: Iberian Virgins in the Gothic Castilian Imagination and in Contemporary Museum Contexts, Maeve O’Donnell-MoralesThe Portal from Coulangé: A Peripatetic Journey, Nancy WuOwnership, Censorship, and Digital Repatriation: Excavating Layers of History in the Carrow Psalter, Lynley Anne HerbertMemory and OblivionRestoration, Revival, Remembrance: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of the Lorenzetti Chapter House Frescoes from San Francesco, Siena, Imogen TedburyThe Victory Cross Redux: Ritual, Memory, and Politics in the Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Matilde MateoThe Magdeburg Rider on Display in Modern Germany, William J. DieboldRestorationThe Salvage of the Benevento Bronze Doors after World War II, Cathleen HoenigerPreservation, Restoration, and the Tomb of the "Founder" at Salisbury, Catherine Emma WaldenUnderstanding the Restoration at Chartres, Meredith CohenThe Power of Absence: The Missing North Tower at Saint-Denis, Sarah ThompsonIndex

'The editors have gathered together wide-ranging articles, authored by 17 recent and seasoned scholars who examine buildings, sculpture, paintings, metal-work, the sumptuous arts, and book illumination, all grounded in the European Middle Ages ... this thought-provoking anthology reminds us of the inherent value of diachronic analysis' - Speculum, 96/1.