Description: Contemporary descriptions of objects no longer extant examined to reconstruct these lost treasures.
Brief description: Kathryn Gerry centres her research on the cult of saints and monastic culture in Anglo-Norman England. She has published on medieval manuscripts and the so-called minor arts, curated exhibitions at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and the Bowdoin College Museum of art, Brunswick, Maine, and has taught at several colleges and universities in the US; she is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Bowdoin College.
Review Quotes: This volume succeeds in its goal of calling attention to the many lost treasures of the medieval world and proposing strategies to reclaim them.-- "COMITATUS"