Fresh examinations of one of the most important church furnishings of the middle ages.
The churches of medieval Europe contained richly carved and painted screens, placed between the altar and the congregation; they survive in particularly high numbers in England, despite being partly dismantled during the Reformation. While these screens divided "lay" from "priestly" jurisdiction, it has also been argued that they served to unify architectural space. This volume brings together the latest scholarship on the subject , exploring in detail numerous aspects of the construction and painting of screens, it aims in particular to unite perspectives from science and art history. Examples are drawn from a wide geographical range, from Scandinavia to Italy.
The Art and Science of the Church Screen in Medieval Europe : Making, Meaning, Preserving
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Table of Contents
Framing the Rood in medieval England and Wales - Richard Marks
Science and the screen - Spike Bucklow
Towards a new methodological approach for interpreting workshop activity and dating medieval church screens - Lucy Wrapson
Texts and detexting on late medieval English church screens - David Griffith
Sacred Kingship, Genealogy and the Late Medieval Rood Screen: Catfield and beyond - Julian Luxford
West Country rood screens: construction and practice - Hugh Harrison and Jeffrey West
The polychromy of Devon screens: preliminary analytical results - Lucy Wrapson and Eddie Sinclair
Moving pictures on the Gothic choir screen - Jacqueline E. Jung
The preserving power of Calvinism: pre-Reformation chancel screens in the Netherlands - Justin E. A. Kroesen
Recovering the lost rood screens of medieval and Renaissance Italy - Donal Cooper
Choir screens and rood lofts in Scandinavian parish churches before 1300 - Ebbe Nyborg
Author Description
SPIKE BUCKLOW is Director of Research at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. Professor Richard Marks FSA is a member of the History of Art Department at Cambridge University and specialises in medieval art, on which he has published extensively. He was born in Bedfordshire and has a long-standing interest in the county’s histor LUCY WRAPSON is Assistant to the Director at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. Donal Cooper is Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College. Recent work focuses on digital visualizations to reconstruct the historic aspects of Italian church interiors, and he is Co-Investigator on the Florence 4D mapping and modelling project. LUCY WRAPSON is Assistant to the Director at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. Professor Richard Marks FSA is a member of the History of Art Department at Cambridge University and specialises in medieval art, on which he has published extensively. He was born in Bedfordshire and has a long-standing interest in the county’s histor SPIKE BUCKLOW is Director of Research at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge.