Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Early Medieval/Romanesque/Gothic Art
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2004

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Bessette, Lisa, “The Visualization of the Content of the Psalms in the Early Middle Ages” (Michigan, E. Sears)

Bishop, Nancy, “The Barberini Gospels” (Iowa, R. Bork)

Brown, Peter Scott, “Portal, Sculpture, and Audience of the Romanesque Cathedral Sainte-Marie d’Oloron” (Yale, W. Cahn)

Chapman, Tracy, “Artistic Patronage and Women of the Royal House of France” (UT Austin, J. Holladay)

Choi, Kyung-Hee, “Illuminating Liturgy and Legend: The Missal of Saint-Denis (London, Victoria and Albert Museum Ms. L1346–1891) and the Royal Abbey in the Fourteenth Century” (IFA/NYU, J. Alexander)

Cohen, Meredith, “The Sainte-Chapelle and the Ideology of Royal Sovereignty” (Columbia, S. Murray)

Driscoll, Alice Ann, “Alberto ‘Sotio,’ 1187, and Spoleto: The Umbrian Painted Cross in Italian Medieval Art” (UNC Chapel Hill, J. Folda)

Gertsman, Elina, “Debeo Saltare: Theology, Reception, and Performativity in the Medieval Dance of Death” (Boston, J. Cranston)

Goodson, Caroline, “The Basilicas of Paschal I (817–824): Tradition and Transformation in Early Medieval Rome” (Columbia, S. Murray)

Hunt, Elizabeth Moore, “Illuminating the Borders of Northern French and Flemish Manuscripts, c. 1270–1310” (Missouri, A. R. Stanton)

Hunvald, Katherine C., “The Warnebertus Reliquary: A Study in Early Medieval Metalwork” (Missouri, M. Rautman)

Kleinsmith, Nicole M., “Inside and Outside the Frame: an Integrated Reading of the Bayeux Tapestry and Its Borders” (Victoria, J. Osborne)

Madsen, Gamble, “Medevial Visions of the Godhead: Peter Lombard’s Commentary on Psalm 10” (USC, C. Malone)

McCurrach, Catherine, “The Veneration of St. Benedict in Medieval Rome: Parish Architecture, Monumental Imagery, and Popular Devotion” (Michigan, E. Sears)

Niedzialkowska, Beata, “Ars Nova in Poland: Artistic and Cultural Relations Between Poland and Belgium in the Late Middle Ages” (Iowa, R. Bork)

Scanlan-Teller, Audrey, “Bishops, Abbots, Kings, and Crosses: Twelfth-Century Irish High Crosses in Munster as Monuments of Ecclesiastical Reform” (Delaware, L. Nees)’

Thompson, Sarah Elizabeth, “Inventing ‘gothic’: Notre-Dame d’Étampes and the Impact of Design Process On Architectural Change in the Isle-De-France 1130–1160” (UC Santa Barbara, C. E. Armi)

Trkulja, Jelena, “Aesthetics and Symbolism of Late Byzantine Church Facades, 1204–1453” (Princeton, S. Ćurčić)

Wagner, Stephen, “Silken Parchments: Design, Context, Patronage, and Function of Textile-Inspired Pages in Ottonian and Salian Manuscripts” (Delaware, L. Nees)

Yawn-Bonghi, Lila Elizabeth, “The Illustrated Giant Bible of Perugia (Biblioteca Augusta, Ms. L. 59): A Manuscript and Its Creators in Eleventh-Century Central Italy” (UNC Chapel Hill, J. Folda)