CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor of History of Art
Department of History of Art
University of Bristol
43 Woodland Road
Bristol, BS8 1UU, England
| Office Telephone: | (+44) 117 954 6050 |
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| Active email: | beth.williamson@bristol.ac.uk |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/ArtHistory |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Medieval/ |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
The image of the Madonna of Humility
Cultural contacts between 14th-century Avignon, Naples, Majorca, Prague and Central Italy
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Article:
'The Virgin Lactans as Second Eve: image of the Salvatrix', Studies in Iconography, vol. 19, 1998, 105-138
Book:
Art, Politics and Civic Religion in Central Italy, c. 1261-c. 1352, Aldershot (Ashgate), 2000 (co-edited with Joanna Cannon)
Article:
'The Cloisters Double Intercession: the Virgin as Co-Redemptrix', Apollo, vol. CLII, November 2000, 48-54
Paper:
'Liturgical Image or Devotional Image?: The London Madonna of the Firescreen, in C. Hourihane (ed.), Objects, Images and the Word (Proceedings of the 2001 Princeton Conference), Princeton, 2003, 298-318
Forthcoming Book:
Christian Art (O.U.P.), April 2004
Forthcoming Article:
'Altarpieces and Images: Liturgy and Devotion', Speculum, 79.2, April 2004, 341-406
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Differences/similarities between textual and visual discourses; textual inscriptions on paintings, and the uses of different languages within inscriptions; narrative in text and image .
History of the Medieval Book:
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life
Marian devotion in Siena, City of the Virgin
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