Gothic Art and Thought in the Later Medieval Period: Essays in Honor of Willibald Sauerländer

Despite the fact that the Gothic is one of the best known and most studied of all the fields of medieval art history, much remains for us to learn. Stretching in time from the early thirteenth to the middle of the sixteenth century and in space from the western shores of Ireland to the eastern borders of Europe, it is a style with many subdivisions and dialects. These papers—the fruits of a two-day conference at Princeton University—bring together some of the foremost scholars in the field an…