Donna L. Sadler (PhD, Indiana University, 1984) taught principally at Agnes Scott College. Among her many publications are Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral: Royalty and Ritual in 13th-Century France (Ashgate; 2012) and Stone, Flesh, Spirit: The Entombment of Christ in Late Medieval Burgundy and Champagne (Brill; 2015).

• AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations1 Coming to Terms with the Late Medieval Altarpiece2 A Tale of Two Retables from the Benedictine Monastery of Crisenon in the Musée-Abbaye Saint-Germain, Auxerre3 The Aesthetics of Immersion: The Reception of the Retable by the Worshipers 4 Engagement with the Pathos of the Passion5 The Role of the FrameEpilogue: The Late Medieval Altarpiece as House of MemoryBibliographyIndex

“This compact, thorough, well-illustrated book is a reliable indicator of advanced research in its field over the past thirty years.”Robert W. Gaston, University of Melbourne. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 232–234.“Thought provoking.” Louise Hampson, University of York. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 541–543. “In tracing the complex relationships formed between altarpieces as objects and loci of memory, and the interior and exterior worlds of the medieval viewer, this book not only fulfils Sadler’s stated intent in demonstrating the importance of the carved altarpieces in late medieval practices of devotion, it also shows their value as evidence for the centrality of the nexus between emotions and the material world in those practices.”Sarah Randles, The University of Melbourne/University of Tasmania. In: Emotions, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2018), pp. 355–356.

Donna L. Sadler (PhD, Indiana University, 1984) taught principally at Agnes Scott College. Among her many publications are Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral: Royalty and Ritual in 13th-Century France (Ashgate; 2012) and Stone, Flesh, Spirit: The Entombment of Christ in Late Medieval Burgundy and Champagne (Brill; 2015).

• AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations1 Coming to Terms with the Late Medieval Altarpiece2 A Tale of Two Retables from the Benedictine Monastery of Crisenon in the Musée-Abbaye Saint-Germain, Auxerre3 The Aesthetics of Immersion: The Reception of the Retable by the Worshipers 4 Engagement with the Pathos of the Passion5 The Role of the FrameEpilogue: The Late Medieval Altarpiece as House of MemoryBibliographyIndex

“This compact, thorough, well-illustrated book is a reliable indicator of advanced research in its field over the past thirty years.”Robert W. Gaston, University of Melbourne. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 232–234.“Thought provoking.” Louise Hampson, University of York. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 541–543. “In tracing the complex relationships formed between altarpieces as objects and loci of memory, and the interior and exterior worlds of the medieval viewer, this book not only fulfils Sadler’s stated intent in demonstrating the importance of the carved altarpieces in late medieval practices of devotion, it also shows their value as evidence for the centrality of the nexus between emotions and the material world in those practices.”Sarah Randles, The University of Melbourne/University of Tasmania. In: Emotions, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2018), pp. 355–356.

Donna L. Sadler (PhD, Indiana University, 1984) taught principally at Agnes Scott College. Among her many publications are Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral: Royalty and Ritual in 13th-Century France (Ashgate; 2012) and Stone, Flesh, Spirit: The Entombment of Christ in Late Medieval Burgundy and Champagne (Brill; 2015).

• AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations1 Coming to Terms with the Late Medieval Altarpiece2 A Tale of Two Retables from the Benedictine Monastery of Crisenon in the Musée-Abbaye Saint-Germain, Auxerre3 The Aesthetics of Immersion: The Reception of the Retable by the Worshipers 4 Engagement with the Pathos of the Passion5 The Role of the FrameEpilogue: The Late Medieval Altarpiece as House of MemoryBibliographyIndex

“This compact, thorough, well-illustrated book is a reliable indicator of advanced research in its field over the past thirty years.”Robert W. Gaston, University of Melbourne. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 232–234.“Thought provoking.” Louise Hampson, University of York. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 541–543. “In tracing the complex relationships formed between altarpieces as objects and loci of memory, and the interior and exterior worlds of the medieval viewer, this book not only fulfils Sadler’s stated intent in demonstrating the importance of the carved altarpieces in late medieval practices of devotion, it also shows their value as evidence for the centrality of the nexus between emotions and the material world in those practices.”Sarah Randles, The University of Melbourne/University of Tasmania. In: Emotions, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2018), pp. 355–356.