Tributes to T.A. Heslop

From Miniature to Monumental: Studies in the Material Culture of Medieval Britain is a multi-author volume honouring Sandy Heslop, Emeritus Professor of Visual Culture at the University of East Anglia. Over the past forty-five years, Sandy has made an enormous contribution to the field of medieval art history through his incisive investigations of material ranging from seal matrices and illuminated manuscripts to castles and cathedrals. One of the hall marks of Professor Heslop’s work, which has focused almost exclusively on the art and architecture of medieval England, is the extraordinarily sensitive way in which he situates his diverse objects of study in their richly varied political, social, and historiographical contexts.

The book is divided into five thematic sections: Material Production and Cultural Exchange; Ceremony, Space and Place; Imagination and Invention; Text, Image and Experience; Image, Agency and Authority. The volume’s twenty-three contributors – an international roster of established and emerging scholars active in the fields of art history, architectural history, archaeology, history, and literary studies—share this intellectual commitment to exploring the productive entanglement of people, things, and ideas across time and space. Their work, as presented in this book, represents a kaleidoscopic view of research on the material culture of medieval Britain—a changing field whose expanding margins, methods, and objectives have been indelibly shaped by Professor Heslop’s writing, teaching, and generous collegiality

Part I
Eric Fernie, The Anglo-Saxon Church of the Holy Trinity at Great Paxton, with Special Reference to Saint-Martin at Biesme
Brian Ayers, The Eleventh-Century Norwich Timber Church: A reassessment withing its Anglo-Scandinavian Context
H. F. Doherty, Ailsi the Burgess, Stephen the Protomartyr, and the Rebuilding of Launceston Minster
Robert Liddiard, Castles and Courtliness: Elite Landscapes in the Long Twelfth Century
Helen Lunnon, Some Thoughts on the Architectural Use of Worked Flint in Fourteenth-Century East Anglia

Part II
Agata Gomolka, Death of the Virgin in Romanesque Wrocław
Lloyd de Beer, The Foljambe Monument at All Saints, Bakewell, and the Alabaster Martyrdom of St Thomas Becket
Jessica Barker, A Queen’s Vision of Lancastrian Kingship: The monument to Joan of Navarre and Henry IV at Canterbury Cathedral
John Mitchell, Preaching and Teaching: The Transformation of the Parish Church in Fifteenth-Century East Anglia
Nich Trend, The Wheeled Angels of Wighton and Little Walsingham
Sarah Cassell, Material Presence, Eternal Memory: Donors and Chancel Screens in Late Medieval East Anglia

Part III
Jill A. Franklin, The Diptych of King David and St Alban at the End of the ‘Markyate’ Psalter: What did Matthew Paris See?
Peter Kidd, Empty Spaces in an English Twelfth-Century Psalter-Hours (Paris, BnF, MS lat. 10433)
Rosie Chambers Mills, From Monument to Manuscript: The Guthlac Roll and its Relationship to Stained Glass Re-examined
M. A. Michael, From Westminster to Bromholm: Searching for the Artist of the Dublin Apocalypse

Part IV
Jessica Berenbeim, Form and the ‘Gothic Charter’
Julian Luxford, A Lively Crucifix at St Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury
Sarah Salih, John Lydgate’s Synaesthetics
Zachary Stewart, Processions Real and Imagined: Place, Space, and Time in Roger Martin’s Account of Long Melford

Part V
Matthew Sillence, Materiality and Agency in Medieval Seals and Sealing Practices
Nicholas Vincent, The Walmer Castle Address (1935) and the Cinque Port Seal Matrixes: Medieval Authority in Action
Jack Hartnell, The UEA Casts
Veronica Sekules, Aping Humanity