Tributes to Adelaide Bennett Hagens

Honoring the fifty-year career of Adelaide Bennett Hagens at the Index of Christian Art, Manuscripts, Iconography, and the Late Medieval Viewer gathers essays by leading specialists in the field of Gothic manuscripts and related art forms. Centered on the reciprocity between medieval pictures and their viewers, the collection sheds new light on what the seminal art historian Michael Camille memorably described as the "image explosion" of the later Middle Ages.

Contributors include François Avril, Paul Binski, Brendan Cassidy, Laura Cochrane, Stephen Cooper, Christopher de Hamel, Lynda Dennison, Libby Escobedo, Paula Gerson, Judith Golden, Gerald Guest, Michael Michael, Nigel Morgan, Judith Oliver, Beatrice Radden-Keefe, Alexa Sand, Lucy Freeman Sandler, Jessica Savage, Elizabeth Sears, Alison Stones, Leslie Bussis Tait, Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo, and William Voelkle.

Judith K. Golden, Adelaide Bennett Hagens: Reminiscences and Bibliography

Elizabeth Sears, Under Miss Green’s Watch: Three Decades of Art History at the Index of Christian Art

Alexa Sand, Virtuous Bodies: La Somme le roi of Jeanne of Guînes and Eu, 1311

Gerald Guest, The Fall of the Rebel Angels: Penitence and Devotion in the Très Riches Heures

Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo, The Marriage of Castile and England as seen in the Bible of Burgos

Paul Binski, Sir Oliver Ingham and the Ascetic Imagination

Libby Escobedo, Playing to the Audience: the Fastolf Master and the Hours of Sir William Porter

Judith Oliver, Christian Calendars and Secular Labors of the Months: A Reassessment

Paula Gerson, Margins for Eros, Revisited

Nigel Morgan, The Holy Face as Icon and Vision in Fourteenth-Century England

Laura E. Cochrane, The Iconography of Time and Eternity in the Tiberius Psalter

William B. Voelkle, The Story of the Levite (Judges 19:1-29), Paris, and the Morgan Library’s Crusader Bible (MS M.638)

Brendan Cassidy, Dante’s Iconography of the Annunciation in Paradiso XXXII

François Avril, ‘Les cerises de la saint Jean’, un curieux motif marginal figuré dan un bréviare parisien à destination royale

Beatrice Radden Keefe, Reading While Riding in Miniatures by the Master of Antoine Rolin

Jessica L. Savage, Before the Parliament of Heaven: Visualizing the Reconciled Virtues of Psalm 84:11

M.A. Michael, A Re-evaluation of the Wall Paintings on the North Nave Piers of St. Albans Abbey: An Exercise

Lucy Freeman Sandler, The Howard Psalter in the British Library and the Hours of the Passion in Fourteenth-Century English Manuscripts

Lynda Dennison, Who Commissioned the Carmelite Missal, London, British Library MS Additional 29704-5?

Leslie B. Tait, In Pursuit of a Lost Cloister Capital from Saint-Pons-de-Thomières

Alison Stones, Tobit: a Recently Rediscovered Cutting from the Brussels-Rylands Bible

Christopher de Hamel and Stephen Cooper, The Hungerford Hours