107-120 Art and Culture in Medieval North Europe

Formerly available as 111-208/308 Medieval Art in Northern Europe. Students who have completed 111-208 or 111-308 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Usually 12.5 points of first-year art history, see Prerequisites.

This subject forms an introduction to the art of medieval Northern Europe from the 11th to the 14th centuries, focusing on England, France and Germany. Students should develop a knowledge of areas such as the art of the 11th and 12th centuries in the context of Benedictine, Cluniac and Cistercian expressions of monasticism; Romanesque art in Burgundy and Languedoc; the rise of Gothic and Abbot Suger of St Denis; the architecture, sculpture and stained glass of the Gothic cathedrals of Chartres, Bourges, Paris, Amiens and Reims in France, of Canterbury, Wells, Lincoln, Salisbury and Westminster Abbey in England, and of Cologne, Magdeburg, Bamberg and Naumberg in Germany; 12th and 13th century manuscript illumination, ivories, enamel and goldsmith work; Christological and Marian imagery, and that of the saints and their lives; chivalric culture and influence of the patronage of lay men and women at the courts of France and England in the 13th century.