Studies in Medieval Art and Interpretation
Walter Cahn
This selection of articles by Walter Cahn, the Carnegie Professor History Art at Yale University, embraces work author that spans a period some thirty years. Cahn's interests here represented range from illustration lost 10th-century Prayer Book late Carolingian Queen Emma to 15th-century guide churches Rome library Margaret York, Duchess Burgundy, though their primary focus is Romanesque art Latinate Europe in 11th and 12th century. Somewhat against grain academic specialization, equally home sculpture, painting, book illumination, fundamental questions methodology. Among topics particularly engage his attention this collection are connections between Biblical exegesis, Cistercian imagery, role expression orthodox heretical beliefs, perhaps most insistently, figuration religious, social political structures within pictorial languages medieval world.