GENERAL

Zarnecki, George. Art of the Medieval World : Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, the Sacred Arts.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975. Physical Details: 476 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. N.B.  The same title also appears with the following publishing information: New York: H. N. Abrams, 1975

Coldstream, Nicola, Medieval Architecture, Oxford History of Art, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Physical Details: 256 p. 147 ill.

Sekules, Veronica, Medieval Art, Oxford History of Art, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Physical Details: 228 p. 136 ill. Emphasis on 12^th-15^th centuries, thematic arrangement, social and intellectual context.

Tomin, Rolf and Achim Bednorz.  The Art of Gothic: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting. Cologne: Könemann, 1999. Physical Details: 521 p. : p., col. ill. ;, 32 cm. Summary: Introduction / Rolf Toman -- Elements of religious and secular Gothic architecture / Pablo de la Riestra -- The beginnings of Gothic architecture in France and its neighbors / Bruno Klein -- The Cathar heresy in southern France / Barbara Borngässer -- Gothic architecture in England / Ute Engel -- Medieval building practice / Christian Freigang -- Late Gothic architecture in France and the Netherlands / Peter Kurmann -- The Papal Palace in Avignon / Christian Freigang -- Gothic architecture of the "German lands" ; Gothic architecture in Scandinavia and East-Central Europe / Pablo de la Riestra -- Medieval castles, knights, and courtly love / Ehrenfried Kluckert -- Gothic architecture in Italy ; Florence and Siena : communal rivalry / Barbara Borngässer -- Medieval cities / Alick McLean -- Late Gothic architecture in Spain and Portugal / Barbara Borngässer -- Gothic sculpture in France, Italy, Germany, and England / Uwe Geese -- Gothic sculpture in Spain and Portugal / Regine Abegg --Gothic painting ; Subjectivity, beauty and nature : medieval theories of art ; Architectural motifs in painting around 1400 ; Narrative motifs in the work of Hans Memling ; Visions of heaven and hell in the work of Hieronymus Bosch ; Gold, light and color : Konrad Kitz ; The depictions of visions and visual perception ; The path to individualism / Ehrenfried Kluckert -- Gothic stained glass / Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz -- Medieval learning and the arts / Ehrenfried Kluckert -- Gothic goldwork / Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck.

ENGLAND
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Three classic, essential surveys.

Boase, Thomas S. R. English Art 1100-1216.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953.

Brieger, Peter. English Art 1216-1307 .Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957.

Evans, Joan English Art 1307-1461 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949; reprint New York: Hacker Books, 1981.

Ages of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400, ed. Jonathan Alexander and Paul Binski. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1987. Physical Details: Exhibition catalogue: 575 p. Summary: 748 illustrated objects. Short focus essays on 28 topics including Heraldry, Seals, Misericords, Brasses, Pottery, Tiles Armor, as well as the morecommon on Architecture, Liturgy, Painting, etc.

Anderson, M. D.  History and Imagery in British Churches. London: J. Murray, 1995. Physical Details: xxiii, 291 p., [48] p. of pl. : 111 ill., 1 map; bibliogr., index. Summary: Addresses the popular interpretation of medieval imagery which mirrors every aspect of social history, from medieval times up to the 18th c. Looks at what principles determined the choice and placing of subjects in a church, why certain biblical scenes appear more often than others, and what the imagery of a medieval church meant to contemporary parishioners. Appendices list subject matter and imagery. Notes: First published 1971.

Thompson, F. H.  Studies in Medieval Sculpture.  London: Society of Antiquaries, 1983. Physical Details: xi, 229 p. : 110 illustrations; 21 text figures; plans, elevations; maps; bibliography; index. Series: Occasional paper (new series), 3. Summary: Papers given at the Medieval sculpture seminar (October 10, 1980) organized by the Society of Antiquaries and additional papers on recent discoveries. Includes introductory remarks by George Zarnecki, Rosemary Cramp, Alan Borg and Neil Stratford. RILA numbers (for those articles with abstracts), titles and authors are as follows: Some observations on the layout and construction of abstract ornament in Early Christian Irish sculpture, by Nancy EDWARDS (597); Anglo-Saxon sculpture in south-east England before ca.950, by Dominic TWEDDLE (651); A carved slab fragment from St. Oswald's Priory, Gloucester, by Jeffrey Keith WEST (654); The Romanesque cloister sculpture at Norwich Cathedral Priory, by Jill A. FRANKLIN (601); Recent discoveries of Romanesque sculpture at St. Albans, by Deborah KAHN (621); Recently discovered Romanesque sculpture in south-east England, by Jane GEDDES (605); The original setting of the apostle and prophet figures from St. Mary's Abbey, York, by Christopher WILSON (656); The Percy tomb at Beverley Minster: the style of the sculpture, by Nicholas DAWTON (595); A group of masons in early fourteenth-century Lincolnshire: research in progress, by Veronica SEKULES (643); Fourteenth-century corbel heads in the Bishop's House, Ely, by Nicola COLDSTREAM (592); Recent studies in the pre-Conquest sculpture of Northumbria, by James LANG (623); Two twelfth-century voussoir stones from Sopwell House, St. Albans, by Eileen ROBERTS (637); The Herefordshire School: recent discoveries, by Richard K. MORRIS (631); Carved stonework from Norton Priory, Cheshire, by J. Patrick GREENE (612); Glastonbury and two Gothic ivories in the United States, by Neil STRATFORD (833). (Staff, RILA, GBR).

EAST ANGLIA:
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Lasko, Peter and Nigel J. Morgan.  Medieval art in East Anglia, 1300-1520.  London: Thames and Hudson, 1974.

Brooke, Christopher N. L., David Abulafia, Michael J. Franklin, and Miri Rubin.  Church and City, 1000-1500: Essays in Honour of Christopher Brooke.  Cambridge, England; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1992. TOC: Christopher Brooke at Cambridge, Liverpool and London / Marjorie Chibnall, Robert Markus and Rosalind Hill -- Religious culture in town and country : reflections on a great divide / Miri Rubin -- Theology and the commercial revolution : Guibert of Nogent, St Anselm and the Jews of northern France / Anna Sapir Abulafia -- City and politics before the coming of the Politics : some illustrations / David Luscombe -- Nuns and goldsmiths : the foundation and early benefactors of St Radegund's priory at Cambridge / Elisabeth Van Houts -- A tale of two cities : capitular Burgos and mendicant Burgos in the thirteenth century / Peter Linehan -- From privilege to persecution : crown, church and synagogue in the city of Majorca, 1229-1343 / David Abulafia.The church of Magdeburg : its trade and its town in the tenth and early eleventh centuries / Henry Mayr-Harting -- The abbot and townsmen of Cluny in the twelfth century / Giles Constable -- The cathedral as parish church : the case of southern England / Michael Franklin -- 'Except the Lord keep the city' : towns in the papal states at the turn of the twelfth century / Brenda Bolton -- The medieval chapter of Armagh Cathedral / J.A. Watt -- The murals in the nave of St Albans Abbey / Paul Binski -- The annals of Bermondsey, Southwark and Merton / Martin Brett -- Citizens and chantries in late medieval York / Barrie Dobson.

Ormrod, W. M.  England in the Fourteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1985 Harlaxton Symposium.   Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 1986; Dover, NH, Boydell Press, 1986. Physical Details: xix,323[48] p. : 127 illustrations; plans, elevations; maps; bibliography. Summary: Symposium held July 1985 at Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire, sponsored by Harlaxton College--the British campus of the University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana. RILA numbers (for those articles with abstracts), titles and authors are as follows: Anthony Bek's copy of Statuta Angliae, by Adelaide BENNETT (1245); A Ducciesque episode at Ely: the mural decorations of Prior Crauden's Chapel, by Paul BINSKI, David PARK (1248); The Fitzwarin Psalter and its allies: a reappraisal, by Lynda DENNISON (1277); John of Gaunt, by Anthony GOODMAN; A royal effigy at Arbroath, by George HENDERSON (1178); Edward III's captains in Brittany, by Michael JONES; The fourteenth-century architectural programme at Ely Cathedral, by Phillip LINDLEY (1043); Poems of social protest in early fourteenth-century England, by J.R. MADDICOTT; The Lincolnshire clergy in the later fourteenth century, by A.K. MCHARDY; Changes in the court of King's Bench, 1291-1340: the preliminary view from Lincolnshire, by Bernard William MCLANE; The architecture of the Earls of Warwick in the fourteenth century, by Richard K. MORRIS (1067); The English government and the Black Death of 1348-49, by W.M. ORMROD; Edward II and the Prophets, by J.R.S. PHILLIPS; John Carter at St. Stephen's Chapel: a romantic turns archaeologist, by M.E. ROBERTS (4611); The Old Proctor's Book: a Cambridge manuscript of c. 1390, by Nicholas J. ROGERS (1338); Face to face with God: a pictorial image of the beatific vision, by Lucy Freeman SANDLER (535); Court style, painters and the Great Wardrobe, by Kay STANILAND (1466); The French prose Brut: popular history in fourteenth-century England, by John TAYLOR; Some historical interests at Sherbourne c. 1400, by T.S. TOLLEY; Bodiam, Sussex: true castle or old soldier's dream house?, by D.J. TURNER (1120); Divine cuckold/holy fool: the comic image of Joseph in the English "troubles' play, by Martin W. WALSH (558); En regardant vers le païs de France: the ballade and the rondeau, a cross-channel history, by Nigel WILKINS. Notes: Ed. by W.M. ORMROD.

Wilson, William David.  “Flowing Tacery in Lincolnshire, 1300-1380.”   PhD thesis, Manchester University, 1979.   Physical Details: 2 v. (287 p.) : 256 illustrations; 41 text figures; plans, elevations; maps. Summary: Describes the development of window tracery in Lincolnshire from about 1300-1380, with some discussion of relevant buildings in Nottinghamshire. It seeks to trace the introduction of curvilinear forms into this part of the country and their subsequent evolution and dissemination throughout the area and in the surrounding counties of England. Alternative forms of window to the mainstream of development are also examined, as are their degree of popularity, and the ultimate source for them traced back as far as possible. The various regional centers of Lincolnshire, and the principal buildings within them, are discussed separately, and particular attention is given to sculpture and molding patterns as a means of establishing a chronology and the schools of masons responsible for any particular church. (Author, RILA, UK).

     References: RILA, 10 4986 (1984)

MEDIEVAL POTTERY TILES
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Cherry, John.  “De la couleur dans l’édifice médiéval: careaux et carrelages gothiques, III: l’Europe: un séminaire au British Museum en mars 1983.  Revue de l’art 63 (1984) 72-78. Physical Details: 8 illustrations. In Summary: Summaries of papers given at the co erence held in 1983 at the British Museum, London, on Medieval pottery tiles: E. Christopher Norton on Medieval tin-glazed painted tiles in northwestern Europe; Matthieu Pinette on the production of tiles in Burgundy during the time of Philippe le Hardi; P.J. Drury on relationships between Medieval floor tiles in East Anglia and the Low Countries; E. Landgraf on designs on Medieval tiles from Cistercian abbeys in Germany; Birgit Als Hansen and Morten Aaman Sorensen on Danish Medieval floor tiles; T. Fanning on Irish tiles; T. Hoekstra on decorated and mosaic tile floors in Utrecht in the late 13th and early 14th cs.; E. Baker on a mid 14th c. tile artist at Warden Abbey, Bedfordshire. Notes: Source of data: RILA, International repertory of the literature of art. References: RILA, 13 6290 (1987)

Sherlock, D.  “Discoveries at Horsham St. Faith Priory, 1970-1973.”  Norfolk Archaeology, 1976, v.36, 202-23, 9 fig., 4 pl.  Summary: Les étapes des constructions du 12 au 14s. Les destructions et transformations à partir du 16s. Les trouvailles, en particulier les carreaux de céramique à glaçure colorée, ou décorés par impression, 13-14s., et divers tessons de céramique.

BAPTISMAL FONTS

Nichols, Ann Eljenholm.  Seeable Signs: the Iconography of the Seven Sacraments, 1350-1544. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1994. Physical Details: xxii, 412 p., [64] p. of pl. : 102 ill., 4 maps; bibliogr., index. Summary: An account of the iconography of the sacraments, looking principally at English work (in particular the imaged baptismal fonts in East Anglia), but with a preface comprehensively surveying all known European work, some of which has never before been published. Argues that before 1450 there existed an international iconography of the sacraments, but that thereafter English work diverges so radically it is necessary to speak of a distinctive insular iconography. Suggests an explanation may lie in the religious climate created by the Lollard rejection of the sacramental system which the traditional church counter-attacked in the theological character of font iconography.

Nordström, Folke.  Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study.  Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell International [distributor], 1984.

BRASSES

Blatchly, J. M.  “The Lost Cross Brasses of Norfolk, 1300-1400.”  Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society XIII Part 2/98 (1981): 87-107.  Physical Details: 19 illustrations; 10 text figures; diagrams; maps. Summary: Describes and illustrates all known examples

Binski, Paul. “The Coronation of theVirgin on the Hastings Brass at Elsing, Norfolk.”  Church Monuments I/1 (1985): 1-9. Physical Details: 4 illustrations. Summary: Examines the Marian iconography of the brass commemorating Sir Hugh Hastings, ca.1350. Details suggest a London workshop, while style and iconography provide evidence for the impact of French art, especially Parisian manuscript illumination associated with Jean Pucelle, in England in the mid-14th c. (RILA, GBR). Notes: Source of data: RILA, International repertory of the literature of art. References: RILA, 15 393 (1989)

Beloe, Edgar Milligen. “A List of Brasses Existing in the Churches of St. Margaret and St. Nicholas, King’s Lynn, in the year 1724,” Transaction of the Cambridge University Association of Brass Collectors 2/1 no. 11 (1892): 57-59, many minor inscriptions without figures are also noted.

Cameron, H. K.  “The Fourteenth-century Flemish Brasses at King’s Lynn.”  Archaeological Journal 136 (1979): 151-72.  Physical Details: 41 illustrations; bibliography. Summary: Describes brasses made in the ateliers of Tournai, for burgesses of Lynn (GB), including Adam de Walsokne, died 1349, and his wife; Robert Braunche, died 1364, and wives, in S. Margaret's Church, King's Lynn. (Staff, RILA, UK).

Cotman, John Sell. Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk.London: Henry G. Bohn, 1838. Large format book with superb images. The essential first reference.

Wilken, Nigel.  “The Birds, the Bishop and the Music of Brass,” Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society 14, no.3 (1988): 205-216. Physical Details: 2 ill. Summary: Discusses the peacock feast frieze at the foot of the brass of Robert Braunche (d.1364) at S. Margaret, King's Lynn, based on the Alexander romance Les voeux du paon, composed ca.1310 by Jacques de Longuyon. Paul Lacroix's illustration in Les arts au moyen âge (Paris, 1874) was most likely based on the brass itself rather than a manuscript illustration as hitherto supposed. The brass is Flemish in origin.

Macklin, Herbert W. The Brasses of England. London: Methuen and Co., 1907.

Trivick, Henry H. The Craft and Design of Monumental Brasses. London: John Baker, 1969.

PAINTING
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Norton, Christopher.  Dominican Painting in East Anglia: The Thomham Parva Retable and the Musée de Cluny Frontal.  Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 1987; Wolfeboro, NH, Boydell Press, 1987. Physical Details: xii,113[42] p. : 139 illustrations, 11 color; plans, elevations; diagrams; maps; bibliography; index. Summary: On the retable now in the church of S. Mary, Thornham Parva, and the frontal in the Musée de Cluny. In individual essays, Norton offers a reconstruction and argues that both retable and frontal were made for a single altar; Park discusses the iconography as an example of Dominican doctrine and taste; Binski proposes, on the basis of style, that the two paintings were the work of a provincial East Anglian workshop of the 1330s; and Norton discusses the history and provenance of the pieces, and demonstrates with circumstantial evidence that they were almost certainly done for the high altar of the Dominican priory at Thetford, founded 1335. (RILA, GBR).

Sandler, Lucy Freeman.  “The Wilton Diptych and Images of Devotion in Illuminated Manuscripts.” Regal Image of Richard II and the Wilton Diptych. -- London, H. Miller, 1997, p.136-154, pl. 17.  Physical Details: 22 ill. (1 col.) Summary: Consideration of such features as figural relationships, poses, gestures, attributes, and setting in representations of religious devotion from 14th and early 15th c. manuscripts of various origins may broaden the context in which to view the Wilton Diptych (London, National Gallery), and enrich understanding of its meaning.

Caviness, Madeline Harrison.  “A Lost Cycle of Canterbury Paintings of 1220.”  Antiquaries Journal 54 (1974): 66-74.  Physical Details: 15 illustrations. Summary: Publishes mid-19th c. drawings and sketches by George Austin senior, and George Austin junior in Canterbury Cathedral Library, of paintings then on the vaults of Trinity Chapel. Discusses the style and iconography of the paintings (dated 1220) and makes comparisons with a Canterbury Psalter (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des manuscrits, MS lat.770) and sculptures at Wells. Appendix describes sketches. (Courtauld Institute). Notes: Source of data: RILA, International repertory of the literature of art.

CHANCEL SCREENS
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Duffy, Eamon. “The Parish, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval East Anglia: The Evidence of Rood Screens.”  Parish in English life, 1400-1600.  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997, p. 133-162. Physical Details: 10 ill. Summary: Examines benefactions for the erection and adornment of rood screens. Surviving wills provide evidence for the chronology of screens and their paintings between 1450 and 1539 and the character of piety represented by them, and establishes a general social profile of the donors. Notes: In: Parish in English life, 1400-1600. French, Katherine L., ed.; Gibbs, Gary G., ed.; Kumin, Beat A., ed. New York, Dist. in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Cotton, Simon.  “Mediaeval Roodscreens in Norfolk, Their Construction and Painting Dates."  Norfolk Archaeology 40/1 (1987): 44-54.  Notes: Summary in English. Source of data: RILA, International repertory of the literature of art.

Ranworth:

Jenkins, Simon.  "Ranworth, Norfolk: St. Helen." Country Life (London) 193, no. 25 (24 June, 1999): 153. Physical Details: 1 col. ill. Summary: Brief profile of the church concentrating on its late-15th c. screen which has painted figural decoration of unusual quality. Notes: Source of data: BHA, Bibliography of the history of art. References: BHA, 9 18622 (1999)

Whittingham, A. B.  “Ranworth Church.”  Archaeological Journal London, Manchester, 137 (1989): 291-295. Summary: L'église commencée en 1415. La clôture de choeur et ses peintures, v. 1430-40: iconographie, technique, restaurations récentes. Notes: Source of data: Répertoire d'art et d'archéologie (RAA)

TOMBS
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Aries, Philippe, Images of Man and Death Cambrige Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985.  trans of Images de l'homme devant la mort 1983  Physical Details:  271 p. 8 p. of plates, ill.

Binski, Paul. Medieval Death : Ritual and Representation.  London: British Museum Press, 1996. Physical Details:  224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Boase, Thomas S. R., Death in the Middle Ages: Mortality, Judgment and Remembrance. London: Thames and Hudson, 1972. 

Crossley, Frederick Herbert.  English Church Monuments A. D. 1150-1550; An Introduction to the Study of Tombs & Effigies of the Mediaeval Period.  London, B.T. Batsford, Edition: New issue, 1933

Panofsky, Erwin, Tomb Sculpture: Four Lectures on its Changing Aspects from Ancient Egypt to Bernini. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1992. Physical Details:  219 p. : ill. Originally published 1964.

Gaddes, Jane.  “Some Tomb Railings in Canterbury Cathedral.”  Collectanea historica: essays in memory of Stuart Rigold  Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society, 1981. Physical Details: 8 illustrations; plans, elevations. Summary: Argues that four sets of iron railings, for the tombs of Edward the Black Prince (d.1376), Archbishop William Courtenay (d.1396), Henry IV (d.1413) and his wife Joan of Navarre (d.1436) and Archbishop Henry Chichele (d.1443), were all commissioned in connection with the construction of Chichele's tomb in 1425.

Roberts, Marion. “The Effigy of Bishop Hugh de Northwold in Ely Cathedral.”  Burlington Magazine 130, n.1019 (Feb 1988): 77-84. Physical Details: 16 ill., plans. Summary: Ornately carved mid-13th c. Purbeck marble effigy. Discusses spiritual and temporal imagery, and speculates about the slab's original location in the cathedral. Notes: Source of data: BHA, Bibliography of the history of art. References: BHA, 1 5308 (1991)

Pepin, Patricia Bolin.  The Monumental Tombs of Medieval England, 1250-1350. PhD diss, University of Pittsburgh, 1977.  Physical Details: 352 p. Summary: The grandiose interior tombs which appeared in English churches by the mid-13th c. precipitated a two-fold conflict in sacred architecture: 1) a spatial conflict between the ancient need for ritual space and the new need--or desire--for multiple burials grandly commemorated and preferably located near the high altar, and 2) an aesthetic conflict between the high elaboration consonant with the tomb's eulogistic function and the relatively restrained rhythms of the architectural context. These conflicts were resolved through an ever increasing elaboration of the church's interior elevation, primarily via the vehicles of the ancient symbolism of the canopy and the new, 13th c. art form, tracery. The process coalesced ca.1290-1350 in the aesthetic revolution known as the Decorated style, a visual expression which proclaimed through its elaborate form and unified symbolism that the space it created--quite aside all other factors--was sacred space. The study is focused upon the English freestanding monumental tomb and its relationship to English architecture of the late 13th and early 14th cs. (Author).

MANUSCRIPTS
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Marks, Richard. The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting, 1200-1500. London, Chatto & Windus; New York, Braziller, 1981. Physical Details: 119 p. : 70 illustrations, 40 color; 23 text figures; maps; bibliography. Series: Illuminated manuscript series. Summary: Introduction and commentaries to 46 color illustrations of English manuscripts of the 13th-15th cs., including the Lindesey Psalter (MS 59, Society of Antiquaries, London), Lives of SS. Alban and Amphibalus (MS 177, formerly MS E.I.40, Library, Trinity College, Dublin), Trinity College Apocalypse (MS R.16.2, Trinity College, Cambridge University), Gorleston Psalter (MS Add. 49622, British Library, London), Lisle Psalter (MS Arundel 83 II, British Library, London), Liber Regalis (MS 38, Westminster Abbey, London), Sherborne Missal (Collection of the Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle), Beaufort-Beauchamp Hours (MS Roy. 2 A.XVIII, British Library, London). In the introduction the period is surveyed and the different centers of production described; the work of Matthew Paris at Saint Albans and the East Anglian school are re-appraised, and the role of court and aristocratic patronage assessed. (Richard Marks, RILA, UK).

Michael, Michael A.  “The Harnhulle Psalter-Hours; an Early Fourteenth Century English Illuminated Manuscript at Downside Abbey.”  British Archaeological Association Journal  CXXXIV (1981): 81-99. Physical Details: 25 illustrations. Summary: The psalter (MS 26533, Downside Abbey, Somerset), was made for the Harnhulle family, probably for use in Suffolk after 1317. Identifies the work of two hands and examines links with the Gorleston (MS Add. 49622, British Library) and Queen Mary (MS Royal 2.B.VII, British Library) groups of East Anglian manuscripts. Analyzes texts and decoration. (Staff, RILA, UK). Notes: Source of data: RILA, International repertory of the literature of art. References: RILA, 10 752 (1984)

De Winter, Patrick M.  “Une réalisation exceptionnelle d’enlumineurs francais et anglais vers 1300; le Bréviaire de Renaud de Bar, évêque de Metz.”  Congrès national des Sociétés savantes, 103d.  Nancy-Metz, 1978. Physical Details: 21 illustrations. Summary: Points to the importance of provincial French schools for miniature painting of northern Europe ca.1300, and describes fruitful exchanges between these centers and England. Chief element of demonstration is a group of manuscripts produced for the bishop of Metz. The decoration of the psalter part of Renaud's breviary (MS. Yates Thompson 8, British Library, London; and MS 107, Bibliothèque municipale, Verdun) is attributed to English artists. It is an important link between the earlier Alfonso (MS Add.24686, British Library, London) and Jesus College Psalters (MS 40, Jesus College, Oxford) and the slightly later Peterborough (MS 9961-62, Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels) and Ramsey (MS Harley 2904, British Library, London), Psalters. It lends weight to the opinion that manuscript production in England ca.1300 was most probably centered in London rather than in East Anglia. The rest of Renaud's breviary is held to have been illuminated in Lorraine by three continental painters, one of whom the author calls the "Master of Renaud de Bar" and suggests that he was trained in the shop of the "Master of the Grail", a prominent illuminator working at the court of Flanders. (Author).

Grossinger, Christa.  “English Misericords of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries and their Relationship to Manuscript Illuminations.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes XXXVIII (1975): 97-108. Physical Details: 29 illustrations Summary: Relates the development of misericords to that of contemporary arts. Compares examples at Exeter ca.1230-70 to scenes in bestiaries and 12th c. MS initials and at Ely ca.1339-41 to margins of East Anglian MSS; discusses the diverse sources in illumination, sketchbooks and sculpture. (Courtauld Institute).

Hahn, Cynthia.  “Peregrinatio et Natio: The Illustrated Life of Edmund, King and Martyr.” Gesta  30, no.2 (1991): 119-139. Physical Details: 19 ill. Summary: Analysis of the iconography of the miniatures in the manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M. 736), which was produced ca.1130 in the monastery of Bury S. Edmunds, the home of the relics of the saint and king. Shows how the illumination seeks to present the monastery and its church as an English pilgrimage center. Edmund is represented as a pilgrim king, and as such may be meant to serve as a model of the judicious use of power for the contemporary king, Henry I. The manuscript also proposes him as a candidate for national patron saint.

Heskop, T. A.  “The Production and Artistry of the Bury Bible.” Bury St. Edmunds: medieval art, architecture, archaeology, and economy.  London: British Archaeological Association, 1998, 172-185, pl. XLI-XLV.  Physical Details: 10 ill. (2 col.) Summary: Looks at some hitherto neglected difficulties affecting the understanding of the Bury Bible (Cambridge, Cambridge University, Corpus Christi College, MS 2). Examines the evidence for the planning and production of the book, particularly some anomalies in the first quire, the use of double thickness vellum for much of the illumination, and the range of capital lettering styles in the manuscript. Together these suggest a number of uncertainties, contingencies and possibly even disruptions in the commission. Considers the choice of subject matter and an aspect of the construction of the pictorial composition. Suggests that the artist, Master Hugo, seems to have imposed his own ethos on the representation of the narratives both as regards their emotional content (or lack of it), and the invention of the iconography. Also introduces a recently discovered fragment of the missing second volume of the Bible, which was recently sold by a London book dealer. The conclusion places the Bible within the context of manuscript commissions at Bury in an attempt to account for the quality, quantity and character of the illumination.

STAINED GLASS
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Caviness, Madeline H. Stained Glass Windows (Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental, 75), Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1996.

Marks, Richard. Stained Glass in England during the Middle Ages, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Caviness, Madeline H. The Early Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral: circa 1175-1220, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Id. Paintings on Glass: Studies in Romanesque and Gothic Monumental Art, Aldershot, Hampshire: Valorium, 1997, which includes “Bible Stories in Windows: Were They Bibles for the Poor?” entry XII.

Brown, Sarah and Lindsay MacDonald, eds. Life, Death, and Art: The Medieval Stained Glass of Fairford Parish Church, Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing: Cheltenham and Gloucestershire College of Higher Education, 1997.

Winston, Charles. M¾moires Illustrative of the Art of Glass-Painting. London: Murray, 1865.

Woodforde, Christopher. The Norwich School of Glass-Painting in the Fifteenth Century, London: Oxford University Press, 1950.

Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Great Britain, Catalogues

I. Newton, Peter, with the collaboration of Jill Kerr. The County of Oxford. A Catalogue of Medieval Stained Glass  London, 1979.

II. Caviness, Madeline A. The Windows of Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, London, 1971.

III.1. French, Thomas, David O'Connor. The Medieval Painted Glass of York Minster, fasc. I., The West Windows of the Nave, London, 1987

Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Great Britain, Summary Catalogue Series

Hebgin-Barnes, Penny. The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire, London, 1996. See also Hebgin-Barnes, Penelope. The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Stained Glass of Lincolnshire (Thirteenth Century, England).  University of York (UK), 1990. Summary: The thirteenth and fourteenth-century stained glass of Lincolnshire is a large topic, for glass of this date ranging from virtually complete windows to tiny fragments survives in one hundred and two churches and in the keeping of several museums and organisations. Much of what remains is in a fragmentary and decayed state and very little of it has been studied in any detail.
In this thesis the county's surviving glass, excluding that of Lincoln Cathedral, is examined in depth. The secondary sources which contribute information about it are discussed. Details of the lives of the donors are considered with regard to the reasons behind the commissioning of their windows, and the patterns of donation amongst various social groups are investigated. The iconography of extant and lost windows is surveyed, with particular attention paid to English saints and to the absence of saints of local origin. The iconographical trends in the county's glass are compared with those in its sculpture and wall painting. The style and design of the remaining glass is examined and compared with that of windows produced during the same period in England and Europe, and with contemporary examples in other artistic media such as illuminated manuscripts. In addition to figures and canopies, certain subsidiary features and decorative elements are discussed: these comprise grotesques, border motifs, grisaille, diapers and rinceaux.
Consequently, it can be seen that the county's thirteenth and fourteenth-century glass cannot be considered as a unified whole and does not support the theory of a Lincolnshire school of glass-painting, but that it contains many features of stylistic, historical and iconographical interest which merit a greatly deal more attention than they have ever been accorded.

Marks, Richard. The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Hamptonshire, London, 1998.

DEVOTIONAL IMAGES
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Hall, James. Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art. Icon Editions, New York: Harper & Row.

Duffy, Eamon. Stripping of the Altars, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992],

Van Os, Henk. The Art of Devotion in the Late Middle Ages in Europe 1300-1500 Amsterdam, 1994.

Ross, Ellen M.  The Grief of God: Images of the Suffering Jesus in Late Medieval England.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Physical Details: xiii, 200 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Brooke, Rosalind and Christopher.  Popular Religion in the Middle Ages : Western Europe, 1000-1300. New York : Barnes & Noble, 1996. (N.B. Originally published in Great Britain: London: Thames & Hudson, 1984.)  Physical Details: 176 p. : ill., 1 plan; bibliogr. ref., index. Summary: Endeavors to explore the religious aspirations or religious consciousness of the laity in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Acknowledging that most of the laity was illiterate, the authors attempt to reconstruct popular religion through the physical setting of the lives of the common people, synthesizing the many media which they would have experienced: churches, sculpture, stained glass, painting, and metalwork. Individual chapters study relics and pilgrims, cults of the saints, popular and unpopular religion, the laity and the Church, the Bible, and (Last) Judgment.

Schmitt, Jean-Claude. “Imago: de l'image à l'imaginaire.”  L'image: fonctions et usages des images dans l'Occident médiéval": Actes du 6e International workshop on medieval societies: Centre Ettore Majorana: Erice, Sicile, 17-23 octobre 1992. -- Paris, Le Léopard d'or, 1996, p. 29-37. Summary: L'auteur étudie les différentes notions que recouvre le terme imago dans la culture chrétienne de l'Occident médiéval. Il évoque le rapport entre les images matérielles (peintes ou sculptées), les reliquaires, les rêves et les visions. Au Moyen Age, s'est constituée une véritable civilisation de l'image dont l'évolution s'amorce dès l'époque carolingienne, s'amplifie avec l'apparition du culte des statues-reliquaires et se avec l'usage des images dans la dévotion des mystiques visionnaires du 13e siècle.

Schmitt, Jean-Claude.  “La culture de l'image.” Annales (Paris. 1946) 1996, v. 51, no. 1, jan-fév, p. 3-36, ISSN 0395-2649.  Physical Details: 11 ill. Summary: L'auteur analyse l'évolution de la culture de l'image en Occident au cours du Moyen Age considéré dans la longue durée (4e-15e siècle). Après avoir défini les trois aspects fondamentaux de l'image, la notion théologico-anthropologique, l'image en tant que production humaine et les images mentales, il décrit l'instauration progressive d'un culte des images et de sa justification théologique. Du 4e au 11e siècle, ce culte est réservé à la croix. Entre le 10e et le 13e siècle, apparaissent les crucifix et les statues-reliquaires, ainsi que les légendes sur les images acheiropoiètes. La société gothique voit l'émergence d'un rapport subjectif et affectif lié aux expériences mystiques et à l'imagerie de dévotion. Les oeuvres de Dürer, notamment ses autoportraits, marquent une solution de continuité qui s'inscrit cependant dans cette évolution.

Morgan, Nigel.  “Texts and Images of Marian Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England.”   England in the Fourteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1991 Harlaxton Symposium Rogers, Nicholas, ed.  Stamford, P. Watkins, 1993, p. 34-57.  Physical Details: 5 ill.

Boskovits, Miklós.  “Immagine e preghiera nel tardo Medioevo: osservazioni preliminari.”  Arte cristiana. LXXVI/724 (Jan-Feb 1988): 93-104.  Physical Details: 14 illustrations. Summary: Explores a change in the meaning of the devotional image between the 13th and 15^th centuries, from static to interactive, and the ways in which painting and saintly visions of the period influenced each other, contributing to the development of realism in Christian iconography. Examples are drawn chiefly from Italian painting. (RILA, ITA).