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. The historiographic
introduction discusses themes in Caviness's publications and their
importance for art historical and medieval studies today. The
book's thematic matrix groups together essays concerned with: The
Material Object, Documentary Reconstruction, Post-Disciplinary
Approaches, Multiple Readings, Gender and Reception,
Performativity, Text and Image, Collecting and Consumption, and
Politics and Ideology. The contributors include curators, art
historians, historians, and literary scholars. Their subjects range
from medieval stained glass to the nineteenth-century Gothic
Revival, the Sachsenspiegel, and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the
Christ. Many foreground issues of gender, reception, and
textuality, which have permeated Caviness's scholarship. Some also
present approaches to sites that have been the subject of important
studies by Caviness, including Canterbury, Chartres, Reims,
Saint-Denis, Sens, and Troyes. The volume offers a broad range of
methodological approaches to key topics in the study of medieval
imagery and thus highlights the vitality of the field today.
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