Reassessing the roles of women as 'makers' of medieval art and architecture / / edited by Therese Martin.

• Superior document: Visualising the Middle Ages ; v. 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Martin, Therese.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Visualising the Middle Ages 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1184 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

These volumes propose a renewed way of framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women. Today’s standard division of artist from patron is not seen in medieval inscriptions—on paintings, metalwork, embroideries, or buildings—where the most common verb is 'made' ( fecit ). At times this denotes the individual whose hands produced the work, but it can equally refer to the person whose donation made the undertaking possible. Here twenty-four scholars examine secular and religious art from across medieval Europe to demonstrate that a range of studies is of interest not just for a particular time and place but because, from this range, overall conclusions can be drawn for the question of medieval art history as a whole. Contributors are Mickey Abel, Glaire D. Anderson, Jane L. Carroll, Nicola Coldstream, María Elena Díez Jorge, Jaroslav Folda, Alexandra Gajewski, Loveday Lewes Gee, Melissa R. Katz, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Pierre Alain Mariaux, Therese Martin, Eileen McKiernan González, Rachel Moss, Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, Felipe Pereda, Annie Renoux, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Stefanie Seeberg, Miriam Shadis, Ellen Shortell, Loretta Vandi, and Nancy L. Wicker.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Exceptions and Assumptions: Women in Medieval Art History / Therese Martin -- 2 The Non-Gendered Appeal of Vierge Ouvrante Sculpture: Audience, Patronage, and Purpose in Medieval Iberia / Melissa R. Katz -- 3 Mere Embroiderers? Women and Art in Early Medieval Ireland / Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh -- 4 Erasures and Recoveries of Women’s Contributions to Gothic Architecture: The Case of Saint-Quentin, Local Nobility, and Eleanor of Vermandois / Ellen M. Shortell -- 5 The Roles of Women in Late Medieval Civic Pageantry in England / Nicola Coldstream -- 6 The Patronage Question under Review: Queen Blanche of Castile (1188–1252) and the Architecture of the Cistercian Abbeys at Royaumont, Maubuisson, and Le Lys / Alexandra Gajewski -- 7 Female Piety and the Building and Decorating of Churches, circa 500–1150 / Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg -- 8 ‘Planters of great civilitie’: Female Patrons of the Arts in Late Medieval Ireland / Rachel Moss -- 9 Reception, Gender, and Memory: Elisenda de Montcada and Her Dual-Effigy Tomb at Santa Maria de Pedralbes / Eileen McKiernan González -- 10 Women as Makers of Church Decoration: Illustrated Textiles at the Monasteries of Altenberg/Lahn, Rupertsberg, and Heiningen (13th–14th c.) / Stefanie Seeberg -- 11 Women in the Making: Early Medieval Signatures and Artists’ Portraits (9th–12th c.) / Pierre Alain Mariaux -- 12 Melisende of Jerusalem: Queen and Patron of Art and Architecture in the Crusader Kingdom / Jaroslav Folda -- 13 Women and the Architecture of al-Andalus (711–1492): A Historiographical Analysis / María Elena Díez Jorge -- 14 Portrayals of Women with Books: Female (Il)literacy in Medieval Jewish Culture / Katrin Kogman-Appel -- 15 Patterns of Patronage: Female Initiatives and Artistic Enterprises in England in the 13th and 14th Centuries / Loveday Lewes Gee -- 16 Concubines, Eunuchs, and Patronage in Early Islamic Córdoba / Glaire D. Anderson -- 17 The First Queens of Portugal and the Building of the Realm / Miriam Shadis -- 18 Subversive Obedience: Images of Spiritual Reform by and for Fifteenth-Century Nuns / Jane Carroll -- 19 Elite Women, Palaces, and Castles in Northern France (ca. 850–1100) / Annie Renoux -- 20 Redressing Images: Conflict in Context at Abbess Humbrina’s Scriptorium in Pontetetto (Lucca) / Loretta Vandi -- 21 Emma of Blois as Arbiter of Peace and the Politics of Patronage / Mickey Abel -- 22 Nimble-fingered Maidens in Scandinavia: Women as Artists and Patrons / Nancy L. Wicker -- 23 The Treasures and Foundations of Isabel, Beatriz, Elisenda, and Leonor: The Art Patronage of Four Iberian Queens in the Fourteenth Century / Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues -- 24 Liturgy as Women’s Language: Two Noble Patrons Prepare for the End in Fifteenth-Century Spain / Felipe Pereda -- Bibliography -- Index of People -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects.