Paris

Alexandra Gajewski is Reviews Editor of The Burlington Magazine and an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, London. Her research focuses on Gothic architecture, especially in relation to the cult of relics, liturgy and questions of function. She has published on Cistercian architecture in medieval Europe, religious architecture in Burgundy, the historiography of regional architecture as well as medieval women as patrons, embroidery and the Castle of Love in ivory.John McNeill is Secretary of the British Archaeological Association, wherein he was instrumental in establishing the Association’s International Romanesque conference series. He has published widely on Romanesque architecture and architectural sculpture in England, France and Italy.

• 1. Notre-Dame in Paris before the Gothic Period, 2. Abbot Suger’s Paris, 3. The Power of the Saints: Architecture and Liturgy in Abbot Suger’s Shrine-Choir at Saint-Denis in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, 4. The King’s City: The Disciplinary ‘Sense-scape’ of Paris in the Thirteenth Century, 5. The Great Thirteenth-Century Chapels of Paris, 6. City of light: Picturing the translation of the Crownof Thorns to Paris in the Gothic glass of the Sainte-Chapelle, 7. Jean Pucelle, Mahiet, and the Fauvel Master: Relationships between Manuscript Illuminators in Fourteenth-Century Paris, 8. Building Paris on its Bridges, 9. Not so vast a Solitude: Cistercians in Medieval Paris, 10. Images of Paris in the late Middle Ages: The Great Monuments.

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