Spanish Medieval Art: Recent Studies

Edited by Colum Hourihane (Princeton University)
2007 | 272 + xxvi pp. | 127 ills. | Hardcover | 7 x 10 in | 978-0-86698-394-5 | MRTS 346
$63 | £44

From the eighth to the fifteenth century, medieval Spain was the setting for a series of invasions and occupations that resulted in some of the most innovative styles in art and architecture. The studies in this volume, written by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, reflect some of the new approaches and methodologies in the field of Spanish med­ieval art and architecture. Focusing on style, iconography, function, and reception, in the religious as well as secular milieus, these studies examine influences within the country and outside it in an attempt to contextualize Spain in the larger European framework.
This oversized (7 x 10") volume is copublished with the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University.

Table of Contents

  • James D’Emilio: Inscriptions and the Romanesque Church: Patrons, Prelates, and Craftsmen in Romanesque Galicia

  • Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo: Touch Me, See Me: The Emmaus and Thomas Reliefs in the Cloister of Silos

  • Pamela Patton: An Islamic Envelope Flap Binding in the Cloister of Tudela: Another Muslim Connection for Iberian Jews? 

  • Therese Martin: Sacred in Secular: Sculpture at the Romanesque Palaces of Estella and Huesca

  • Manuel Castiñeiras: Catalan Romanesque Painting Revisited: The Altar-Frontal Workshops

  • Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras: Church Reform and the Poetics of Gothic Sculpture in Burgos and Amiens

  • Rose Walker: The Poetics of Defeat: Cistercians and Frontier Gothic at the Abbey of Las Huelgas

  • Jerrilynn D. Dodds: Rodrigo, Reconquest, and San Roman: Some Preliminary Thoughts