M. Alison Stones, Ph.D., F.S.A.

Positions held
1984-present Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
1969-84 Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, Department of Art History, University of Minnesota
1993-99 Research Associate, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Visiting Lectureships:  Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, Reading University; Department of History, Westfield College, University of London
Visiting Fellowships:  Corpus Christi College Cambridge; Magdalen College Oxford; All Souls College Oxford; H.P.Kraus Visiting Fellowship, Beinecke Library, Yale University; Fundacion Ortega Y Gasset, Toledo, Spain.
2006 Six-month Fulbright Fellowship to the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris.  Chercheur accueilli, Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris.
2007 January: Directeur d'études invité, Section histoire, École pratique des hautes études, Université de Paris-IV-Sorbonne
2006 and 2007: Chercheur accueilli, Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris.

Current Research
Illuminated Manuscripts Made in France, 1260-1320 (Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France, ed. J.J.G. Alexander and F. Avril for Harvey Miller, London and Brepols, Turnhout)

The Lancelot-Grail Project:
* 'Seeing the Grail' (Waynflete Lectures, Magdalen College Oxford, in draft for publication)
* Studies in Lancelot-Grail Illustration, ed. Alison Stones (with †Elspeth Kennedy, Martine Meuwese, Roger Middleton, Keith Busby)
* Lancelot-Grail Manuscripts (with Kenneth Sochats, Martine Meuwese, Jane Vadnal, and graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh, in progress http://www.lancelot-project.pitt.edu/)

Publications:
in press:

Manuscripts Illuminated in France, Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320, vols. 1 and 2 of 4, (London: Harvey Miller and Turnhout: Brepols).

'Le Sacré et le Profane dans quelques manuscrits français du XIIIe et début XIVe siècles,' in Thèmes religieux et thèmes profanes dans l'image médiévale: transferts, emprunts, oppositions (Actes du Colloque du RILMA, Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, INHA, mai 2011) Études du RILMA, ed. C. Heck (Turnhout: Brepols).

'Quelques lecteurs du Lancelot-Graal et leurs choix d'images,' in Quant l'image relit le texte (Actes du Colloque international, Universités de Paris-III et Paris-IV, 15-16 mars 2011), ed. M. Pérez-Simon and Sandrine Hériché-Pradeau.

'Dunstan or Eloi ? Formulas and Divergencies in the Illustrations of the Psalter, Nancy, Musée Archéologique MS 249,' in La Formule au Moyen Age (Actes du colloque Nancy novembre 2010), ed. E. Louviot et al.

'La production de manuscrits littéraires aux environs de 1300: entre Cambrai et Saint-Omer, les mécènes et les liens stylistiques de leurs peintres,' in L'invention littéraire autour de 1300 (Colloque international de la Fondation Charles Bally), ed. H. Bellon-Méguelle (Turnhout: Brepols).

'The Miniatures in the Vernon Manuscript,' in The Vernon Manuscript, ed. W. Scase (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer).

'The Artistic Context of Some North French Illustrated Tristan Manuscripts' in Materiality and Visuality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde, ed. J. Eming, A.M. Rasmussen, K. Starkey (U of Notre Dame Press).

'A Note on the Beard-Pulling Motif: A Meeting between East and West, or a Northern Import ?' Festschrift for James Graham-Campbell, ed. Leslie Webster and Andrew Reed (Leiden: Brill).

'Illuminated Manuscripts of Popes Clement V and John XXII: Toulouse or Avignon ?' in Petrarch's Babylon: Cultural Intercourse in Papal Avignon, ed. S. Noakes (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press).

'Le Contexte artistique du Tournoi de Chauvency,' in Le Tournoi de Chauvency, ed. M. Chazan (Actes du Colloque Metz 2007), (Geneva: Droz), 153-209.2011,

2011 'Fragments d'une bible du XIIIe s.', in Les Enluminures du Louvre. Moyen Age et Renaissance, ed. F. Avril et al. (Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2011), 127-34, nos. 67-73 (Inv. nos. 33410 et 33410A-F).

2011 'Some Northern French Chansonniers and their Cultural Context,' in Ars musica septentrionalis: De l'historiographie à l'interprétation (Colloque Cantus 21, Douai, 2005) (Paris: PUPS, 2011), ed. Barbara Haagh and Frédéric Billiet, 169-87.

2011 'Note on the Heraldry of a Very Special Gauvain,' in “Li premerains vers”: Essays in Honor of Keith Busby, ed. C.M. Jones and L.E. Whalen (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi), 433-47.

2011 'The Illustrations of the Queste del saint Graal in Yale 229 and other Queste manuscripts,' in The Queste del saint Graal in Yale 229, ed. E. Willingham (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), 301-43.

2010 'Towards a Comparative Approach to Manuscript Study on the Web: the Case of the Lancelot-Grail Romance, (with Ken Sochats) in Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter 2, ed. F. Fischer, C. Fritze, G. Vogeler, Norderstedt, 2010, 33-42 (http://www.i-d-e.de/).

2010 The Lampeter Bible <http://www.trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk/en/rbla/>

2010 'The Valenciennes Papias and Learning in the Grammar School in Thirteenth-Century France,' Comité internationale de paléographie latine, ed. P. Robinson (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer).

2010 'Two French Manuscripts: WLC/LM/6 and WLC/LM/7,' in The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts: Texts, Owners and Readers, ed. R. Hanna and T. Turville-Petre, (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2010), 41-56.

2010 'Illustration dans le Codex Calixtinus,' and two catalogue entries, 'El Codex Calixtinus (Santiago de Compostela, Arquivo da Catedral de Santiago, Ms. 1)' and 'Codex Calixtinus Vaticano (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Archivio di San Pietro Ms. C. 128),' in Compostelle et l'Europe, L'histoire de Diego Gelmírez, ed. M. Castiñeiras (Santiago de Compostela: Xunta de Galicia), 142-57, 374-75, no. 29, 376-77, no. 30. Also published in English, Spanish, Galician, and Italian.

2010 'Les prières de Gautier de Coinci, leur distribution et leur réception d'après la tradition manuscrite' in Le recueil au Moyen Age: Le Moyen Age central, ed. O. Collet and Y. Foehr-Janssens (Texte, Code et Contexte 8), Turnhout: Brepols, 237-68.

2010 Appendix C, Description of the manuscript, in The Costuma d'Agen: A Thirteenth-Century Customary Compilation in Old Occitan, Transcribed from The Livre Juratoire and tr. F.R.P. Akehurst (Publications de l'Association Internationale d'Études Occitanes 5), Turnhout, 2010, 109-12.

2010 'Le débat dans la miniature: le cas du Breviculum de Thomas le Myésier,' Colloques RILMA, ed. C. Heck (Turnhout: Brepols), 189-99

2009 'Medieval Pilgrimage Writing and its Manuscript Sources,' in Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, ed. Larissa J. Taylor et al., Leiden: Brill, 2009, 395-413.

2009  'Fabrication et illustration des manuscrits arthuriens,' and catalogue entries in La Légende du roi Arthur, ed. T. Delcourt, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France (exhibition and catalogue, 2009-2010), Paris, BNF, 2009, 19-29, 69-70 (no. 3), 76-77 (no. 8 with S. Messerli), 89 (no. 15), 114-117 (nos. 33, 34, 35), 152-53 (no. 58), 156-57 (no 61), 163-65 (no. 66), 170 (no. 69).

2009 'L'enluminure au temps de Jeanne de Constantiople et de Marguerite de Flandre,' and catalogue entries, in Jeanne de Constantiople, comtesse de Flandre et de Hainaut, ed. N. Dessaux, Paris and Lille, 2009, 177-89, 192-207.

2009  'Signs and Symbols in the Estoire del saint Graal and the Queste del saint Graal,' (with †Elspeth Kennedy) in Signs and Symbols (Harlaxton Medieval Studies XVIII), ed. John Cherry and Ann Payne (Donnington, Lincs.: Shaun Tyas), 150-67.

2008  'The Illustrations of Mort Artu in Yale 229: Formats, Choices, and Comparisons,' in The Mort Artu in Yale 229, ed. E. Willingham (Turnhout: Brepols), 263-316.

2008  'Amigotus and his collaborators: a note on script, decoration, and patronage in some south-western French manuscripts c. 1300,' in  Régionalisme et Internationalisme: Problèmes de Paléographie et de Codicologie du Moyen Âge (Actes du XVe Colloque International de Paléographie Latine [Vienne, 13-17 septembre 2005]) réunis par O. Kresten & al. (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters; Reihe IV, Monographien 5) (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-Hist. Klasse, Denkschriften ...), 235-56.

2008  'L'Illustration des livres liturgiques français au moyen âge (Rapport sur les conférences),' in Annuaire-EPHE, SHP-139e année (2006-2007), Paris, 175-80.

2007  'A Note on the North French Manuscripts of Brunetto Latini's Trésor,' Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts, ed. K.A. Smith and C.H. Krinsky (Turnhout: Brepols), 67-89.

2007 'Some Portraits of Women in their Books, Late 13th-Early 14th c.,' in Livres et lectures de femmes en Europe entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, ed. Anne-Marie Legaré (Turnhout: Brepols), 3-27.

2007 'Medieval Pilgrimage Writing,' on Medieval Travel website http://www.medievaltravel.amdigital.co.uk
 
2007  'Why Images ? A note on some explanations in French manuscripts ca. 1300,' Festschrift for François Avril, ed. Mara Hofmann (Turnhout: Brepols), 312-29.

2007 'Some Secular Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections,' The Cambridge Illuminations, ed. Stella Panayotova (Turnhout: Brepols and Harvey Miller), 139-50.

2006  Gautier de Coinci, Miracles, Music and Manuscripts, ed. by Kathy M. Krause and Alison Stones (Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 13) (Turnhout: Brepols), authored pp. 65-98, 371-442.

2006  'The Terrier de l'Évêque and some Reflections of Daily Life in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century,' in  Tributes to Jonathan J.G. Alexander, ed. G. Guest, S. L'Engle (London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller and Brepols), 371-84.

2006  'The Egerton Brut and its Illustrations,'in Maistre Wace, A Celebration (Proceedings of the International Colloquium held in Jersey, 10-12 September 2004), ed. Glyn S. Burgess and Judith Weiss (St Helier, Jersey: Société Jersiaise), 167-76.

2005  'Illustration and the Fortunes of Arthur,' in The Fortunes of King Arthur, ed. N.J. Lacy (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer), 116-65.

2005  'Quién est á dentro y quién est á fuera ? Los santos de la Guía de peregrinos hacia Santiago' ('Who is In and Who is Out ?  Saints of the Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela'), in Visitandum est, ed. P. Caucci von Sauken (Santiago de Compostela: Xunta de Galicia), 255-76.

2005 'Questions of Style and Provenance in the Morgan Picture Bible' in Between the Picture and the Word: Manuscript Studies from the Index of Christian Art, ed. C. Hourihane (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press), 112-121.

2005 'The Full-Page Miniatures of the Psalter-Hours New York, Morgan Library, M 729: Programme and Patron,' in Die Psalterillustration im Mittelalter, ed. F.O. Büttner (Turnhout: Brepols), 281-307.

2005 'Seeing the Walls of Troy,' in Manuscripts in Transition, ed. B. Dekeyzer and J. Van den Stock (Leuven: Peeters), 161-78.

2003 'The Illustrations to Brunetto Latini's Trésor in France, c. 1275-1320,' La città e il libro II, Il manoscritto, la miniatura, ed. J. Bolton-Holloway (Florence) <(http://www.florin.ms/beth5.html>.

2003 'Mise en page' in the French Lancelot-Grail: the First Hundred and Fifty Years of the Illustrative Tradition,' A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, ed. Carol R. Dover (Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer), 125-44.

2003 'The Illustrations of the Pseudo-Turpin in the Johannes translation,  Florence, Laurenziana Ashburnham 125, and the Chronique de l'anonyme de Béthune, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, n.a.fr. 6295,'  (Las ilustraciones del Pseudo-Turpín de Johannes y la Chronique de l'anonyme de Béthune),' El Pseudo-Turpín: Lazo entre el Culto Jacobeo y el Culto de Carlomagno, ed. K. Herbers (Actas del VI Congreso Internacional de Estudios Jacobeos) (Santiago de Compostela: Xunta de Galicia), 317-330.

2002 Iconographical appendix to Angelica Rieger, L'Ystoire du bon roi Alexandre: Der Berliner Alexanderroman, Handschrift 78 C 1 des Kupferstichkabinetts, Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin (Stuttgart, 2003), 247-59.

2002 co-authored with †D.J.A. Ross, 'The Roman d'Alexandre in French Prose: another illustrated manuscript from Champagne or Flanders c. 1300,' Scriptorium 56, 151-62.

2002 'A Note on the Maître au menton fuyant,' Huldeboek Maurits Smeyers, H. Cardon and D. Van Wijnsberghe (Leuven: Peeters), 1129-42.

2001 'A Note on some re-discovered Vincent of Beauvais Volumes,' Vincent of Beauvais Newsletter 26, ed. G. Guzman, 10-13.

2001 'Un courant monumental dans l'enluminure française aux environs de 1300,' 1300...L'art au temps de Philippe le Bel (Rencontres de l'École du Louvre), ed. D. Gaborit-Chopin, Paris, 103-17.

2001  'Le mécénat artistique du cardinal Jean Cholet' in L'Art gothique dans le Beauvaisis (Actes du Colloque 1998) ed. Philippe Bonnet-Laborderie (Beauvais: GEMOB), 239-68.

2000  'The Lancelot-Graal Project,' in New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscripts, ed. Derek Pearsall (York Medieval Studies), (Ashbridge: Brewer), 167-82.

2000  'Seeing the Grail,' in The Grail, A Casebook, ed. Dhira Mahoney (New York: Garland), 301-66.

1999 'The Grail in Rylands French 1 and its Sister Manuscripts,' Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 81-83: 55-95.

1999 ‘Nipples, Entrails, Severed Heads and Skin: Devotional Images for Madame Marie,’ in Image and Belief: Studies in Celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art, ed. Colum Hourihane (Princeton: Index of Christian Art and Princeton UP), 39-50.

1999 'Teaching and Research on the Web: Three Sites,' in Computing and Visual culture: Representation and Interpretation, ed. Tanya Szrajber (Fourteenth Anual CHArt Conference), (London: CHArt), 111-22.

1999 Le Roman de la Manekine, edited and translated by Barbara Sargent-Baur, with contributions by Alison Stones and Roger Middleton (Amsterdam: Rodopi), 1-39.

1998 'The Artistic Context of le Roman de Fauvel and and Note on Fauvain,' in Fauvel Studies, ed. Margaret Bent and Andrew Wathey (Oxford: Clarendon), 529-67.

1998 'Les débuts de l'héraldique dans l'illustration des romans arthuriens,' in Les Armoriaux, ed. Hélène Loyau and Michel Pastoureau, Cahiers du léopard d'or 8: 395-420.

1998 The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela, A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation: The Manuscripts by Alison Stones and Jeanne Krochalis; The Text, by Paula Gerson, Jeanne Krochalis, Annie Shaver-Crandell, Alison Stones, 2 vols. (London: Harvey Miller).

1997 Le livre d'images de Madame Marie (Paris, BNF n.a.fr. 16251) (Paris: BNF and Cerf).

1996 ‘The Codex Calixtinus and the Iconography of Charlemagne,’ in Roland and Charlemagne in Europe: Essays on the Reception and Transformation of a Legend, ed. Karen Pratt (King’s College London Medieval Studies XII) (London), 169-203.

1996  'Illustrating Lancelot and Guinevere,’ in Lancelot and Guinevere, A Casebook, ed. Lori Walters (New York: Garland), 125-57 (repr. 2002).

1996 'The Illustrations in BN fr 95 and Yale 229, Prolegomena to a Comparative Study,' in Keith Busby, ed.,Word and Image in Arthurian Romance  (New York: Garland), 206-83.

1995 'Madame Marie's Picture-Book: a precursor of Flemish Painting around 1400,' in Flanders in a Europan Perspective, ed. Maurits Smeyers (Leuven: Peeters), 429-43.

1995 'Qui a lu le Guide du pèlerin ?' (with Jeanne Krochalis) in Pèlerinages et croisades, ed. Léon Pressouyre (118e Colloque du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 1993), (Paris), 11-36.

1995 'Stylistic Associations, Evolution and Collaboration: Charting the Bute Painter's Career,' The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, 23: 11-29.

1995 The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela: A Gazetteer, by Paula Gerson and Annie Shaver-Crandell, with the assistance of Alison Stones (London: Harvey Miller).

1994 'Images of Temptation, Seduction and Discovery in the Prose Lancelot: a Preliminary Note,' Festschrift Gerhard Schmidt, Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, 46-47 (1993-4), 725-35.

1993 Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes: The Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes, eds. Keith Busby, Terry Nixon, Alison Stones, Lori Walters, introduction by Alison Stones, 2 vols. (Amsterdam: Rodopi) (chief organizer and editor, designer, contributor, see also below).

1993 'The Illustrated Chrétien Manuscripts and their Artistic Context' (in Busby, Nixon, Stones and Walters), 227-322.

1992 The 'Codex Calixtinus' and the Shrine of St. James, eds. John Williams and Alison Stones (Tübingen: Narr) (editor and contributor: 'The Decoration and Illustration of the Codex Calixtinus at Santiago de Compostela,' 137-84.

1991 'Arthurian Art since Loomis,' Arturus Rex, II.  Acta Conventus Lovaniensis 1987, eds. W. Van Hoecke, G. Tournoy, W. Verbeke (Leuven: Leuven UP), 21-78.

1990 La Vie de sainte Marguerite par Wace, édité par H.-E.Keller; 'Le ms.Troyes 1905, le recueil et ses enluminures,' par M.A.Stones.  (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 229) (Tübingen: Niemeyer).

1990 'Indications écrites et modèles picturaux, guides aux peintres de manuscrits enluminés aux environs de 1300,' in  Artistes, artisans et production artistique. (Actes du colloque, Rennes, 1983), ed. X. Barral I Altet (Paris: Picard), vol. III, 321-349.

1990 'L'atelier artistique de la Vie de sainte Benoîte d'Origny: nouvelles considérations,' Bulletin de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France, 378-400.

1990 'Prolegomena to a Corpus of Illustrated Vincent of Beauvais Manuscripts,' in Vincent de Beauvais: Intentions et réceptions d'une oeuvre encyclopédique au Moyen Âge, eds.M. Paulmier-Foucart, S.Lusignan, A. Nadeau (Montréal: Bellarmin/Paris: Vrin), 301-44.

1990 Saint Bernard et le monde cistercien, ed. L. Pressouyre and T. Kinder (Paris, Conciergerie: CNMH), (manuscript consultant and contributor, catalogue nos.70, 86, 134, 135, 196, 213, 214).

1988 'Some Aspects of Arthur's Death in Medieval Art,' in The Passing of Arthur, eds. C.Baswell and W.Sharpe (New York: Garland), 52-101.

1988 The Book Goes Public: Manuscripts and Incunabula in Western Pennsylvania (organizer and co-author with Jeanne Krochalis and Stephen Almagno of A Visitor's Guide).

1987 'Another Short Note on Rylands French 1,’ in Romanesque and Gothic, Essays for George Zarnecki, ed. N. Stratford (Bury St.Edmunds: Boydell and Brewer), 185-192.

1982 'Notes on Three Illustrated Alexander Manuscripts,' in Alexander and the Medieval Romance Epic: Essays in Honour of D.J.A.Ross,  ed. P. Noble, L. Polak, C. Isoz (New York/London/Nendeln: Kraus), 193-254.

1982  Research on New Methods of Teaching Art History by R. Burris, S. McNally and A. Stones (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota).

1981 'Four Illustrated Jacobus  Manuscripts,' in The Vanishing Past:  Studies in Art, Liturgy and Metrology presented to Christopher Hohler,  eds. A. Borg and A. Martindale, B.A.R.International Series 111 (Oxford), 197-222.

1981 Manuscripts, Illumination and PARIS  (Information Management and the Arts, Control Data Corporation) by Robert S. Arthur and Alison Stones  (Minneapolis).

1978  Medieval Illumination, Glass and Sculpture in Minnesota Collections, catalogue by Alison Stones and John Steyaert (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota).

1977  The Minnesota Vincent of Beauvais Manuscripts and Cistercian Thirteenth-CenturyBook Decoration. The James Ford Bell Lectures, no.14  (Minneapolis: Jame Ford Bell Library).

1977 'Sacred and Profane Art:  Secular and Liturgical Book Illumination in the Thirteenth Century,' in  The Epic in Medieval Society, Aesthetic and Moral Values, ed. H. Scholler
(Tübingen: Niemeyer), 100-112.

1977 'The Earliest Illustrated Prose Lancelot Manuscript ?' Reading Medieval Studies 3: 3-44.

1976 'Secular Manuscript Illumination in France,' in Medieval Manuscripts and Textual Criticism,  ed. C. Kleinhenz.  (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, Symposia, 4) (Chapel Hill), 83-102.

1971 Trésors sacrés (catalogue), ed. J. Dumoulin and J. Pycke (Tournai), cat. no.51.

1969 'An Italian Miniature in the Gambier Parry Collection,' Burlington Magazine, 111:7-12.

1968 'Short Note on MSS Rylands French 1 and Douce 215, ' Scriptorium 22: 41-5.

Exhibitions
1988 The Book Goes Public: Manuscripts and Incunabula in Western Pennsylvania (organizer and co-author with Jeanne Krochalis and Stephen Almagno of A Visitor's Guide).
1982 Wolves and Humans (Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul): consultant for art.
1981 A Medieval Treasury: the Stoclet Collection (Minneapolis Institute of Art): consultant.
1978 Medieval Illumination, Glass and Sculpture in Minnesota Collections (consultant, with John Steyaert)

Reviews
Speculum 79, 2004: 462-64
Speculum 77, 2002: 1318-320
Medium Aevum  68, 1998: 157-58
Speculum 73, 1998: 844-48
Speculum 69, 1994: 873
Speculum 68, 1993: 213-16
Speculum 66, 1991: 624-28, 691-96
Burlington Magazine  130, 1988: 142-43
Speculum  61, 1986: 886-91
Speculum 58, 1983: 1088-89
Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 43, 1980: 211-18
Speculum  53, 1978: 586-90
Speculum 49, 1974: 140-42, 319-20.

Popular Publications
Articles in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Enciclopedia Italiana, New Arthurian Encyclopedia, Petit Larousse de la Peinture.

Selected Lectures
Berlin (Kunsthistorische Institut, Freie Universität); Universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, Hull, London, Oxford, Reading, York (UK); Leuven, Katholieke Universiteit; Lille, Université de Lille-3 (Centre de Recherches en Histoire de l'Art pour l'Europe du Nord); Paris (Société nationale des antiquaires de France: École des Hautes Études: Université de Paris III, Université de Paris IV); Vienna (Kunsthistorisches Institut); University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles; Columbia University; Harvard University; Indiana University; University of Iowa; University of Oklahoma; Yale University; J. Paul Getty Museum.

Recent Papers
'Quelques commanditaires de manuscrits enluminés aux environs de 1300,' Séminaire derniers Capétiens, Paris-IV, 2007; 'L'iconographie du Merlin et de la Suite vulgate dans Paris, BNF fr. 95 et Londres, BL Add. 10292,' Colloque Suites de Merlin, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 2007; 'Le projet Lancelot-Graal,' GRIM, Paris, 2006; 'Maritime Adventures in the Estoire and the Queste,' Harlaxton Conference, 2006;  'Illustrating the Lancelot proper,' Narrative Conference, London, 2006; Teaching and Research on the Web,' University of Doha, Qatar, 2006; 'Some Northern French Chansonniers and their Cultural Context,' Cantus 21, Douai, 2005; 'Femmes et livres, Lille, 2005; 2005 'Questions of Style and Provenance in the Morgan Picture Bible,' Between the Picture and the Word, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, 2004; 'The Lancelot-Grail Project,' GIS Conference, California University of Pennsyvania (with Ken Sochats); Manuscripta, St Louis, October, 2003; Text and Image in Medieval England, Minneapolis, October, 2003; Cambridge University, 2002; Leeds International Medieval Conference; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Oxford University, University of Hull, Reading University 2001; London, Oxford, Reading Universities, 1999; Harvard, 1998; Kalamazoo, 1999; with Guoray Cai at the American Association of Geographers April 2000; with Guoray Cai at the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Conference in Hong Kong, January 2000.

'Seeing the Walls of Troy,' Manuscripts in Transition, Brussels, November 2002.

'The Illustrations of Brunetto Latini's Trésor to c. 1320,' Città e Libro II, Florence, September, 2002.

'The Lancelot-Grail Project,' Manuscripts and Facsimiles, fidelity or betrayal ?  University of Edinburgh, March, 2002.

'Illustration and the Fortunes of Arthur,' Pennsylvania State University, March 2002.

'Illustrating the Pseudo-Turpin,' O Pseudo-Turpin, Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, September, 2001.

'The Illustrations of Guillaume de Machaut Manuscripts,' Guillaume de Machaut, All Souls College, Oxford, June 2001.

'BNF fr. 95 and the Yale Lancelot,' Yale University, July 2000.

'The Artistic Patronage of Cardinal Jean Cholet,' University of Oxford Medieval Society, October 1999; L'art gothique dans l'Oise, Beauvais, 1998.

'The Full-Page Miniatures in the so-called Psalter-Hours of Yolande of Soissons,' Die Psalterillustration im Mittelalter, Universität Bamberg, October 1999.

'Appropriating the Ark: Old Testament Iconography and the Illustrated Estoire del saint Graal,' 6th International Conference on the Bible, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, July 1999.

'Nipples, Entrails, Severed Heads and Skin: Devotional Images for Madame Marie,' Princeton University October 1998.

Learned Societies
British Archaeological Association, College Art Association, Hagiography Society, International Arthurian Society, International Center of Medieval Art (electronics committee, 1997-present, publications committee 1990-92, 1997-99; councillor 1989-91, advisor 1980-3, nominating committee 1980-1), Medieval Academy of America  (executive committee 1990-91, councillor 1988-90), Medieval Association of the Midwest (executive board 1978-81), Phi Beta Kappa, Société archéologique et historique du Périgord, Société nationale des antiquaires de France, Society of Antiquaries of London.

Teaching
Introductory level:  Survey of Medieval Art and Architecture, c. 250-1500 (limited access website); Medieval Patrons (limited access website); Upper division and graduate: Manuscript Illumination, Iconography, Gothic Art, Gothic Architecture, Gothic Painting, Romanesque Architecture (limited access websites; copyrighted website http://www.medart.pitt.edu/); Graduate: Manuscript Illumination, Palaeography,  Iconography, Lancelot-Grail Project.
 
 

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