Books and Journals
Hardcopy Resources Available at the Founder's Memorial Library
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circulating books can be checked out with your student ID or community patron library card
Medieval Art: A Topical Dictionary /
Leslie Ross Call Number: N7850 .R671996 Designed as a quick-reference source to the topics most frequently found in early Christian, western medieval, and Byzantine art. |
Meaning in Motion : the Semantics of Movement in Medieval Art / edited by Nino Zchomelidse and Giovanni Freni. Call Number: N5961 .M42 2011 The nine essays collected in this volume are based on the papers presented at the Forty-second International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 2007. Focus on art and allegory in late medieval courtly society. |
Book of Beasts : a Facsimile of MS Bodley
764 /introduction by Christopher de Hamel. Call Number: PR275.B47 H36 2008a Special Collections--4th FL--FML--Non-Circulating Full facsimile reproduction of a 13th century illuminated manuscript, a bestiary, created in England. This bestiary, dating from the mid-13th century and preserved at the Bodleian Library in Oxford since the early 17th century, is one of the finest and most charming of medieval English bestiaries. A perfect example of medieval manuscript illumination. |
Believing and Seeing : the Art of Gothic Cathedrals /
Roland Recht ; translated by Mary Whittall. Call Number: N6310 .R4313 2008 The architecture of medieval cathedrals paralells the theology of the time. In addition to the great cathedrals of France, Recht explores key religious buildings throughout Europe to reveal how their designs made visible the signs of scripture, which were so important to medieval society. |
The Medieval Haggadah : Art, Narrative,
and Religious Imagination / Marc Michael Epstein. Call Number: ND3380.4.H33 E68 2011 Historian Marc Michael Epstein explores four illuminated haggadot--manuscripts created for use in the Jewish home during services for Passover. Proof that Christianity was not only viable religion of the time. |
Gothic Art & Thought in the Later
Medieval Period : Essays in Honor of Willibald Sauerländer / edited by Colum Hourihane. Call Number: N6310 .G56 2011 An example of a Festschrift, (popular form of essay collection created to honor a specific person) , Gothic Art & Thought on the Later Medieval Period is "a collection of essays by leading scholars on a broad range of issues concerning Gothic art across Europe, including reception, methodology, nationalism, scholasticism, historiography, and iconography. Covers a variety of media, from glass to manuscripts to ivories. Celebrates the career of Willibald Sauerländer"--Provided by publisher. |
The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims
Cathedral /Meredith Parsons Lillich. Call Number: NK5349.R3 L55 2011 "Examines the stained-glass windows in the Gothic cathedral of Reims within the context of the evolution of the French monarchy and medieval art"--Provided by publisher. |
Dumbarton Oaks Papers/
Harvard Universtiy Press Call Number: DF503 .D84 Medieval Art Periodical published by Harvard University Press, c1941- contributors include professors, PhD's, and historians. |
Speculum/
Medieval Academy of America Call Number: MICROFILM PN661 .S6 Microforms Periodicals--2nd FL--FML--Non-Circulating A journal of Medieval Studies published by the Medieval Academy of America |