The Art and Science of the Church Screen in Medieval Europe

SPIKE BUCKLOW is Director of Research at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. Professor Richard Marks FSA is a member of the History of Art Department at Cambridge University and specialises in medieval art, on which he has published extensively. He was born in Bedfordshire and has a long-standing interest in the county’s histor LUCY WRAPSON is Assistant to the Director at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. Donal Cooper is Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College. Recent work focuses on digital visualizations to reconstruct the historic aspects of Italian church interiors, and he is Co-Investigator on the Florence 4D mapping and modelling project. LUCY WRAPSON is Assistant to the Director at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. Professor Richard Marks FSA is a member of the History of Art Department at Cambridge University and specialises in medieval art, on which he has published extensively. He was born in Bedfordshire and has a long-standing interest in the county’s histor SPIKE BUCKLOW is Director of Research at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge.

Introduction - Paul Binski
Framing the Rood in Medieval England and Wales - Richard Marks
Science and the Screen - Spike Bucklow
Towards a New Methodological Approach for Interpreting Workshop Activity and Dating Medieval Church Screens - Lucy Wrapson
Texting and Detexting on Late Medieval English Church Screens - David Griffith
Sacred Kingship, Genealogy and te Late Medieval Rood Screen: Catfield and Beyond - Julian Luxford
West Country Rood Screens: Construction and Practice - Hugh Harrison and Jeffrey West
The Polychromy of Devon Screens: Preliminary Analytical Results - Lucy Wrapson and Eddie Sinclair
Moving Pictures on the Gothic Choir Screen - Jacqueline E. Jung
The Preserving Power of Calvinism: Pre-Reformation Chancel Screens in the Netherlands - Justin E. A. Kroesen
Recovering the Lost Rood Screens of Medieval and Renaissance Italy - Donal Cooper
Choir Screens and Roodlofts in Scandinavian Parish Churches before 1300 - Ebbe Nyborg