Lost Artefacts from Medieval England and France

LAURA CLEAVER is Professor of Manuscript Studies at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Kathryn Gerry centres her research on the cult of saints and monastic culture in Anglo-Norman England. She has published on medieval manuscripts and the so-called minor arts, curated exhibitions at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and the Bowdoin College Museum of art, Brunswick, Maine, and has taught at several colleges and universities in the US; she is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Bowdoin College. LAURA CLEAVER is Professor of Manuscript Studies at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Kathryn Gerry centres her research on the cult of saints and monastic culture in Anglo-Norman England. She has published on medieval manuscripts and the so-called minor arts, curated exhibitions at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and the Bowdoin College Museum of art, Brunswick, Maine, and has taught at several colleges and universities in the US; she is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Bowdoin College. KATHERINE WEIKERT is Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval History at the University of Winchester.

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionKathryn Gerry and Laura Cleaver1 Hoard Fever: Objects Lost and Found, Beowulf and Questions of BelongingJoshua Davies2 Lost Craft: Tracing Ships in the Early Medieval Riddling TraditionBeth Whalley3 Typological Exegesis and Medieval Architecture in Honorius Augustodunensis's Gemma animaeKarl Kinsella4 Lost Objects and Historical Consciousness: The Post-Conquest Inventories at ElyKatherine Weikert5 Fire! Accounts of Destruction and Survival at Canterbury and Bury St Edmunds in the Late Twelfth CenturyLaura Cleaver6 Reweaving the Material Past: Textual Restoration of Two Lost Textiles from St AlbansKathryn Gerry7 Matthew Paris, Metalwork and the Jewels of St AlbansJudith Collard8 Illustrating the Material Past: A Pictorial Treasury in the Late-Medieval Manuscripts from St Albans AbbeyDeirdre Carter9 Lost and Found: Gothic Ivories in Late Medieval French Household RecordsKatherine A. Rush10 Ivories in French Royal Inventories, 1325-1422: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age?Marian Bleeke11 Parisian Painters and their Missing Oeuvres: Evidence from the ArchivesKatherine Baker12 The Mythical Outcast Medieval Leper: Perceptions of Leper and Anchorite SquintsVictoria YuskaitisBibliographyIndex of ManuscriptsGeneral Index

This volume succeeds in its goal of calling attention to the many lost treasures of the medieval world and proposing strategies to reclaim them.