Ittai Weinryb is an Assistant Professor at the Bard Graduate Center, New York.

• Introduction: of bronze things; 1. Making; 2. Signification; 3. Acting; 4. Being; Appendix 1. Adhémar of Chabannes (988–1034); Appendix 2. Hugh of Fouilloy (c.1096–c.1172); Appendix 3. On the Benediction of Bells, excerpt from the Gellone Sacramentary.

'Ittai Weinryb's The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages gives us a study that comes close to being the gleeful opposite of a whistlestop tour of the masterpieces of medieval sculpture in bronze, for all that it examines a number of them en passant, and in a way it is only the choice of the word 'object' that ever so slightly gives the game away. For while statues may just about qualify as objects, things such as doors, fonts, fountains, reliquaries, bells and even mechanical clocks and other automata more truly fit the bill, and they soon emerge as the main heroes here.' David Ekserdjian, The Arts Newspaper