By John Beldon Scott (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) The famed linen cloth preserved in Turin Cathedral has provoked pious devotion, scientific scrutiny, and morbid curiosity. Imprinted with an image many faithful have traditionally believed to be that of the crucified Christ "painted in his own blood," the Shroud remains an object of intense debate and notoriety … Continued
By G. Z. Kaganov (NHC Fellow, 1995–96)
By Annabel Jane Wharton (NHC Fellow, 1985–86; 2002–03; 2016–17)
By Stephen Murray (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) A historian of medieval art and architecture with a rich appreciation of literary studies, Stephen Murray brings all those fields to bear on a new approach to understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Plotting Gothic positions the rhetoric of the Gothic as a series of … Continued
Edited by Elizabeth Otto (NHC Fellow, 2017–18) and Patrick Rössler A century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design school. In myriad ways, emerging ideas about the body in relation to health, movement, gender, and sexuality were at the heart of art … Continued
By Caroline Bruzelius (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to apostolic poverty bound friars to donors in an exchange of donations in return for intercessory prayers and burial: association with friars was believed to reduce the suffering of … Continued
By Kenneth Severens (NHC Fellow, 1982–83)
By Susan V. Webster (NHC Fellow, 2011–12)
By Pamela H. Simpson (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) In this innovative study, Pamela H. Simpson examines the architectural materials that proliferated between 1870 and 1930. Produced by new technology, promoted by new forms of advertising, and eagerly adopted by a new middle class, these “cheap, quick, and easy” materials helped to transform building practices in the … Continued
By Annabel Jane Wharton (NHC Fellow, 1985–86; 2002–03; 2016–17) Refiguring the Post-Classical City examines the 'Christianisation' of four important Mediterranean centers at critical moments in a cultural paradigm shift, from classical to post-classical, that occurred from the third to sixth century. Tracing the partial displacement of traditional Greco-Roman cultural codes by an alternative set of … Continued