| Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem | https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/Arth Bookshelf/nees-islamic-jerusalem.jpg | | Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem | Nees, Lawrence | | Brill | Leiden | 2016 | https://brill.com/view/title/32171 | <p>Through its material remains,
<em>Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem</em> analyzes several overlooked aspects of the earliest decades of Islamic presence in Jerusalem, during the seventh century CE. Focusing on the
<em>Haram al-Sharif</em>, also known as the Temple Mount, Lawrence Nees provides the first sustained study of the Dome of the Chain, a remarkable eleven-sided building standing beside the slightly later Dome of the Rock, and the first study of the meaning of the columns and column capitals with figures of eagles in the Dome of the Rock. He also provides a new interpretation of the earliest mosque in Jerusalem, the
<em>Haram</em> as a whole, with the sacred Rock at its center.<br></p> | | |
| Early Medieval Art | https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/Arth Bookshelf/nees-early-medieval.jpg | | Early Medieval Art | Nees, Lawrence | | Oxford University Press | Oxford | 2002 | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/early-medieval-art-9780192842435?lang=en&cc=us | <p>In the first millennium, a rich and distinctive artistic tradition emerged in Europe.
<em>Early Medieval Art</em> explores this tradition and tracks its development from c. 300 AD through c. 1000 AD, revealing forms of artistic expression ranging from brilliant illuminated manuscripts to decorative chairs, rich embroidery, and precious metalwork.<br></p><p>Nees explores issues of artist patronage, craftsmanship, holy men and women, monasteries, secular courts, and the expressive and educational roles of artistic creation. Instead of treating early Christian art in the late Roman tradition and the arts of the newly established kingdoms of northern Europe as opposites, he adopts a more holistic view, treating them as different aspects of a larger historical situation. This approach reveals the onset of an exciting new visual relationship between the church and the populace throughout medieval Europe. Moreover, it restores a previously marginalized subject to a central status in our artistic and cultural heritage.<br></p> | | |
| Approaches to Early-Medieval Art | https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/Arth Bookshelf/nees-approaches-speculum.jpg | | Approaches to Early-Medieval Art | Nees, Lawrence | ed. | Medieval Academy of America | Cambridge, MA | 1998 | https://www.amazon.com/Approaches-Early-Medieval-Art-Lawrence-Nees/dp/0915651718 | <p><em>Approaches to
Early-Medieval Art</em>, edited by Lawrence Nees, was first published as a special issue of <em>Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies</em>
(October 1997 issue).<br></p> | | |
| A Tainted Mantle: Hercules and the Classical Tradition at the Carolingian Court | https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/Arth Bookshelf/nees-tainted-mantle.jpg | | A Tainted Mantle: Hercules and the Classical Tradition at the Carolingian Court | Nees, Lawrence | | University of Pennsylvania Press | Philadelphia | 1991 | https://www.amazon.com/Tainted-Mantle-Classical-Tradition-Carolingian/dp/0812282167 | <p><em>A Tainted Mantle</em> focuses on two important
works of Carolingian literature and art, Theodulf of Orléans's poem <em>Contra iudices</em> (<em>To Judges</em>) and the ivory throne identified as the <em>Cathedra Petri</em> (the throne of St.
Peter). Both works prominently feature the pagan hero Hercules, showing him not
as a positive model for Carolingian rulers, as has often been suggested, but in
fact as an embodiment of traditions of ancient paganism that were antithetical
to early medieval Christianity.<br></p> | | |
| The Gundohinus Gospels | https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/Arth Bookshelf/nees-gundohinus-gospels.jpg | | The Gundohinus Gospels | Nees, Lawrence | | Medieval Academy of America | Cambridge, MA | 1987 | https://www.amazon.com/Gundohinus-Gospels-Medieval-Academy-America/dp/0990987426 | <p>The manuscript now preserved as MS 3 in the Bibliothèque Municipale at
Autun, commonly known as the Gundohinus Gospels, is a moderately large
parchment codex containing the Four Gospels in Latin, various accessory texts,
decorated canon tables, a <em>Maiestas Domini</em>
illustration, and four Evangelist portraits. The colophon gives the name of the
scribe, Gundohinus, states that the book was written in the third year of King
Pepin, that is, ca. A.D. 754, and places its origin in a monastery at Vosevio,
an unidentified location.<br></p> | | |
| From Justinian to Charlemagne: European Art, 565-787; An Annotated Bibliography | https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/Arth Bookshelf/nees-justinian-charlemagne.jpg | | From Justinian to Charlemagne: European Art, 565-787; An Annotated Bibliography | Nees, Lawrence | | G. K. Hall | Boston | 1985 | https://www.amazon.com/Justinian-Charlemagne-European-Art-565-787/dp/0816183287 | <p>This volume from the Reference Publications in Art History series is an
annotated bibliography devoted to the Christian art of the period from
approximately A.D. 565 to A.D. 787.<br></p> | | |
