Lost Artefacts from Medieval England and France - Representation, Reimagination, Recovery

Contemporary descriptions of objects no longer extant examined to reconstruct these lost treasures.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Kathryn Gerry and Laura Cleaver
1 Hoard Fever: Objects Lost and Found, Beowulf and Questions of Belonging
Joshua Davies
2 Lost Craft: Tracing Ships in the Early Medieval Riddling Tradition
Beth Whalley
3 Typological Exegesis and Medieval Architecture in Honorius Augustodunensis's Gemma animae
Karl Kinsella
4 Lost Objects and Historical Consciousness: The Post-Conquest Inventories at Ely
Katherine Weikert
5 Fire! Accounts of Destruction and Survival at Canterbury and Bury St Edmunds in the Late Twelfth Century
Laura Cleaver
6 Reweaving the Material Past: Textual Restoration of Two Lost Textiles from St Albans
Kathryn Gerry
7 Matthew Paris, Metalwork and the Jewels of St Albans
Judith Collard
8 Illustrating the Material Past: A Pictorial Treasury in the Late-Medieval Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey
Deirdre Carter
9 Lost and Found: Gothic Ivories in Late Medieval French Household Records
Katherine A. Rush
10 Ivories in French Royal Inventories, 1325-1422: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age?
Marian Bleeke
11 Parisian Painters and their Missing Oeuvres: Evidence from the Archives
Katherine Baker
12 The Mythical Outcast Medieval Leper: Perceptions of Leper and Anchorite Squints
Victoria Yuskaitis
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
General Index

Product details

• Assisted by: Laura Cleaver (Editor), Dr. Kathryn (Contributor) Gerry (Editor), Kathryn Gerry (Editor)
• Publisher: York Medieval Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781914049057
• ISBN: 978-1-914049-05-7
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 246 mm x 176 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 842 g
• Series: Writing History in the Middle Ages
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies