Patronage, Power, and Agency in Medieval Art

Patronage

Power & Agency in Medieval Art

Contents

Preface by Colum Hourihane

Foreword by Elizabeth Carson Pastan

Notes on the Contributors

Introduction by Colum Hourihane

Jill Caskey

Medieval Patronage & Its Potentialities

Julian Luxford

The Construction of English Monastic Patronage

Elizabeth Carson Pastan

Imagined Patronage: The Bayeux Embroidery & Its Interpretive History

Sheila Bonde & Clark Maines

The Heart of the Matter: Valois Patronage of the Charterhouse at Bourgfontaine

Claudine Lautier

The Canons of Chartes: Their Patronage and Representation in the Stained Glass Cathedral

Anne Derbes

Patronage, Gender & Generation in Late Medieval Italy: Fina Buzzacarini and the Baptistery of Padua

Benjamin Zweig

Picturing the Fallen King: Royal Patronage & the Image of Saul’s Suicide

Nigel Morgan

What are they Saying? Patrons & Their Text Scrolls in Fifteenth-Century English Art

Robin Cormack

‘Faceless Icons’: The Problems of Patronage in Byzantine Art

Corine Schleif

Seeking Patronage: Patrons & Motions in Language, Art, and Historiography

Adelaide Bennett

Issues of Female Patronage: French Books of Hours, 1220-1320

Stephen Perkinson

Portraits & Their Patrons: Reconsidering Agency in late Medieval Art

Lucy Freeman Sandler

The Bohun Women & Manuscript Patronage in Fourteenth-Century England

Aden Kumler

The Patron-Function

General Index

Index of Manuscripts

“This volume is the fifteenth in the excellent series of occasional papers published by the Index of Christian Art following the Index’s annual conference. Offering multifaceted, fresh perspectives on the theme of patronage in medieval art, the book presents fourteen essays by scholars at various stages of their careers. All of the authors deal with theories and assumptions about patronage, but the volume is structured so that the first and last essays are methodological pieces bookending twelve fascinating case studies. Although most of these concern late medieval works, the volume presents a wide chronological and geographic range of material and a diverse body of media, from Byzantine icons to late Gothic manuscripts and much in between. . . . Although very different, the essays hang well together, and the volume will spur further scholarly conversations. In addition, the handsome presentation of the book, with excellent color images, as well as its accessible price, will make it extremely useful for teaching. Once again, the Index is to be congratulated for this successful synthesis of high quality scholarship.”

—Holly Flora, Renaissance Quarterly