Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29753-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 1114 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1644 g

This volume proposes 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Martin, Therese

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

List of Color Plates ix
Color Plates following xii
List of Black and White Illustrations xiii
Acknowledgments xxxi
Contributors’ Biographies xxxiii
Map xl

1. Exceptions and Assumptions: Women in Medieval Art History 1
Therese Martin

Part One: DISPLAY AND CONCEALMENT
2. The Non-Gendered Appeal of Vierge Ouvrante Sculpture: Audience, Patronage, and Purpose in Medieval Iberia 37
Melissa R. Katz
3. Mere Embroiderers? Women and Art in Early Medieval Ireland 93
Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh
4. Erasures and Recoveries of Women’s Contributions to Gothic Architecture: The Case of Saint-Quentin, Local N obility, and Eleanor of Vermandois 129
Ellen M. Shortell
5. The Roles of Women in Late Medieval Civic Pageantry in England 175
Nicola Coldstream

Part Two: OWNERSHIP AND COMMUNITY
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 197
Alexandra Gajewski
7. Female Piety and the Building and Decorating of Churches, ca. 500–1150 245
Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg
8. ‘Planters of great civilitie’: Female Patrons of the Arts in Late Medieval Ireland 275
Rachel Moss
9. Reception, Gender, and Memory: Elisenda de Montcada and Her Dual-Effigy Tomb at Santa Maria de Pedralbes 309
Eileen McKiernan González

Part Three: COLLABORATION AND AUTHORSHIP
10. Women as Makers of Church Decoration: Illustrated Textiles at the Monasteries of Altenberg/Lahn, Rupertsberg, and Heiningen (13th–14th c.) 355
Stefanie Seeberg
11. Women in the Making: Early Medieval Signatures and Artists’ Portraits (9th–12th c.) 393
Pierre Alain Mariaux
12. Melisende of Jerusalem: Queen and Patron of Art and Architecture in the Crusader Kingdom 429
Jaroslav Folda
13. Women and the Architecture of al-Andalus (711–1492): A Historiographical Analysis 479
María Elena Díez Jorge

Part Four: FAMILY AND AUDIENCE
14. Portrayals of Women with Books: Female (Il)literacy in Medieval Jewish Culture 525
Katrin Kogman-Appel
15. Patterns of Patronage: Female Initiatives and Artistic Enterprises in England in the 13th and 14th Centuries 565
Loveday Lewes Gee
16. Concubines, Eunuchs, and Patronage in Early Islamic Cordoba 633
Glaire D. Anderson
17 The First Queens of Portugal and the Building of the Realm 671
Miriam Shadis

Part Five: PIETY AND AUTHORITY
18. Subversive Obedience: Images of Spiritual Reform by and for Fifteenth-Century Nuns 705
Jane Carroll
19. Elite Women, Palaces, and Castles in Northern France (ca. 850–1100) 739
Annie Renoux
20. Redressing Images: Conflict in Context at Abbess Humbrina’s Scriptorium in Pontetetto (Lucca) 783
Loretta Vandi
21. Emma of Blois as Arbiter of Peace and the Politics of Patronage 823
Mickey Abel

Part Six: MEMORY AND MOTHERHOOD
22. Nimble-fingered Maidens in Scandinavia: Women as Artists and Patrons 865
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 903
Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues
24. Liturgy as Women’s Language: Two Noble Patrons Prepare for the End in Fifteenth-Century Spain 937
Felipe Pereda

Bibliography 989
Index of People 1069
Index of Places 1091
Index of Subjects 1100

Über Autor(innen)

Therese Martin (Ph.D., 2000, Art History, University of Pittsburgh) holds tenure at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. Her research centers on women’s sponsorship of medieval art, Romanesque architecture, and royal palaces. With Brill, she previously co-edited Church, State, Vellum, and Stone (2005) and authored Queen as King (2006).