Researching Art in the Middle Ages (HC)

A rare twelfth-century treatise On Diverse Arts, Heidi C. Gearhart explores the unique system of values that guided artists of the High Middle Ages as they created their works.

Essays explore topics including visual representation and gender and sexuality.

Brings together research from across the range of disciplines which contribute to our knowledge of medieval dress and textiles. Many descriptions and images of surviving garments.

Annual volumes cover topics drawing from a range of disciplines. Volumes from 2011 are on JSTOR. Tricollege links include some but not all earlier volumes. See the tables of contents for volumes on the Larsdatter.com website (Medieval and Renaissance Material Culture)

Childbirth in Renaissance Italy was commemorated with a range of objects, including paintings, sculpture, wooden bowls, food and linens. This work explores the appearance, meaning and function of these objects, as well as the social and cultural context.

The hundreds of illuminated miniatures found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, sponsored by King Alfonso X (1252--84), reveal many vistas of daily life in thirteenth century Spain. Check Tripod for print copies.

In the conviction that medieval images were not generally intended to reflect daily life but rather to shape a new reality, Michael Camille analyzes the Psalter's famous pictures as representations of the world, imagined and real, of its original patron.

Articles focus on the great myths and legends of the age; daily and nightly customs and activities; religious beliefs of pagan, Christian, Muslim, and Jew; key works of oral and written literature; traditional music and art; holidays and feasts; food and drink; and plants and animals (real and mythic).

This book covers a wide range of topics, including the magical texts which circulated in medieval Europe, the attitudes of intellectuals and churchmen to magic, the ways in which magic intersected with popular culture, and the early witch trials of the fifteenth century.

Art history journal article analyzing a14th century manuscript with extensive use of heraldry.

Journal article explores the heraldry associated with the Amazon Penthesilea from the twelfth to the fifteenth century in texts, manuscript illustrations, and tapestries. Request the article through Interlibrary Loan.