Wednesday 7 October 2009 Perspectives on Medieval Art: Seeing the Medieval Today

Published by the Museum of Biblical Art, New York in association with D Giles Limited Perspectives on Medieval Art: Learning through Looking examines medieval art from a number of different viewpoints to reveal how the art of the Middle Ages provides a unique insight into the wider issues of medieval politics and culture, as well as society’s longing for ecclesiastical drama, the desires of patrons, the wider social framework and distinct regional aesthetics.

This volume is based on the proceedings of the Seeing the Medieval: Realms of Faith/Visions for Today symposium organized by the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture, Fordham University and the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA), New York. Contributions from leading theologians and historians variously study life and art in the Middle Ages, why the medieval period matters today and how medieval art speaks to a 21st-century audience. Scholars from different disciplines, including Thomas Cahill, and Kathryn Kueny, C. Griffith Mann and Xavier John Seubert consider individual works of art simultaneously and examine the whole subject of teaching medieval art from museum to divinity school, to the university and college classroom.

Lavishly illustrated, with colour photographs of medieval buildings and monuments, art objects and illuminated manuscripts, and including suggestions for further reading and a comprehensive index, Perspectives on Medieval Art: Learning through Looking will be a major contribution to our broader understanding of medieval art and its teaching.

The Editors
Ena Giurescu Heller is executive director of MOBIA, editor of Reluctant Partners: Art and Religion in Dialogue (2004) and contributor to Women’s Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church (2005). Robin M. Jensen is the Luce Chancellor’s Professor in the History of Christian Art and Worship at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee. She is author of Face to Face: The Portrait of the Divine in Early Christianity (2005) Patricia C. Pongracz is curator-at-large at MOBIA and an adjunct professor at the College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, New Jersey. Her publications include catalogues for MOBIA including Biblical Art and the Asian Imagination (2007).
The Authors
Dirk H. Breiding is an assistant curator in the Department of Arms and Armor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and author of “Dynastic Unity: Fourteenth Century Military Effigies in the Chapel of Castle Kronberg” (2001). Thomas Cahill is author of the best-selling series The Hinges of History®, in which the history of the Western world is retold through stories of individuals, and has taught at Queens College, Fordham University, and Seton Hall University. Margot Fassler is the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre-Dame, and is author of the prize-winning Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris (Cambridge, 1997). Kathryn Kueny is director of the Religious Studies Program and clinical associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University and is author of The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam (2001). C. Griffith Mann is the chief curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He has organised and contributed to several exhibitions, including Sacred Arts and City Life: The Glory of Medieval Novgorod (2005). Mary C. Moorman is a PhD candidate and lecturer in Systematic Theology at Southern Methodist University, and has taught at Boston University. Xavier John Seubert is Thomas Plassmann Distinguished Professor for Art and Theology and director of the Art History Department at St. Bonaventure, New York. He has contributed to In Solitude and Dialogue: Contemporary Franciscans Theologize (2000). Nancy Wu is the museum educator at the Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Publications include The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture, co-authored with Peter Barnet (2005).

UK£40.00/US$60.00, hardback
ISBN: 978-1-904832-69-0 (13 digit)
ISBN: 978-1-904832-69-5 (10 digit)
224 pages, 250 x 210 mm (8 ¼ x 10 in.), portrait
90 colour illustrations
Text: Up to 100,000 words
Publication date: February 2010
Publisher: D. Giles Limited, London in association with the Museum of Biblical Art, New York

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