The Four Modes of Seeing: Approaches to Medieval Imagery in Honor of Madeline Harrison Caviness

by Lane,Evelyn Staudinger

• ISBN13: 9780754660101
• ISBN10: 0754660109
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Borrowing its title from Madeline Harrison Caviness's influential work on the modes of seeing articulated by the twelfth-century cleric Richard of Saint Victor, this interdisciplinary collection brings together the work of thirty scholars from England, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. Each author has contributed an original article that engages with ideas formulated in Caviness's wide-ranging scholarship.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Material Object: The glazing of Siena Cathedral's fenestra rotunda magna: preliminary observations from a production standpoint

Holding hands in the Virgin Chapel at Beauvais Cathedral

The Asseburg-Hedwig glass re-emerges

Material meaning: stained glass and the questions of authenticity, reception, workshop practice, and aesthetics

Documentary Reconstruction: Prior Wibert's fountain houses: service and symbolism at Christ Church

Sir William Horne and his `scowred' window at Snailwell

Learning from Muskau: the Throne of Solomon window from the Carmelite Church at Boppard and its donation by Jakob von Sierck, Archbishop of Trier (1439-1456)

Images lost/texts found: the original glazing program at Notre-Dame of Noyon

Post-Disciplinary Approaches: Stained glass and architecture at Saint-Remi of Reims and at Braine: distinct or complementary disciplines?

The integrated cathedral: thoughts on `holism' and Gothic architecture

The sacred topography of Chartres Cathedral: the reliquary chasse of the Virgin in the liturgical choir and stained glass decoration

Frames of vision: architecture and stained glass at Clermont Cathedral

'The widows' money' and artistic integration in the axial chapel at Saint-Quentin

Multiple Readings: The center portal on the West fatade at Reims: axes of meaning

Seeing and understanding narrative and thematic method in the stained glass of the choir of K÷nigsfelden c. 1330-1340

Modes of seeing Margaret of Antioch at Fornovo di Taro

Archbishops named and unnamed in the stained glass of Reims

Gender & Reception: Subjection and reception in Claude of France's Book of First Prayers

'Why can't a woman be more like a man?': transforming and transcending gender in the lives of female saints

Women in English royal genealogies of the late 13th and early 14th centuries

Peformativity: Mirror, mirror on the wall: reflections on the performance of authority in Eike von Repgow's Sachsenspiegel

Saint Hedwig's personal ivory Madonna: women's agency and the powers of possessing portable figures

Boniface VIII and his self-representation: images and gestures

Text & Image: Paris and Paradise: the view from Saint-Denis

Collecting & Consumption: Apparitional aesthetics: Viollet-le-Duc and Villard de Honnecourt

Grosvenor Thomas and the making of the American market for medieval stained glass

Medieval stained glass and Alexandre Lenoir

Politics & Ideology: Pathos and politics: Nicholas Love's Mirror and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ

Realpolitik and artistic patronage in 12th- and 13th-century Troyes

Rhetoric and reform: the St. Thomas Becket window of Sens Cathedral

Bibliography of Madeline H. Caviness

Index

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