Lost Artefacts from Medieval England and France (Web PDF) von Laura Cleaver

Contemporary descriptions of objects no longer extant examined to reconstruct these lost treasures.

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Kathryn Gerry and Laura Cleaver
1 Hoard Fever: Objects Lost and FoundBeowulf and Questions of Belonging
Joshua Davies
2 Lost Craft: Tracing Ships in the Early Medieval Riddling Tradition
Beth Whalley
3 Typological Exegesis and Medieval Architecture in Honorius Augustodunensis'sGemma animae
Karl Kinsella
4 Lost Objects and Historical Consciousness: The Post-Conquest Inventories at Ely
Katherine Weikert
5 Fire! Accounts of Destruction and Survival at Canterbury and Bury St Edmunds in the Late Twelfth Century
Laura Cleaver
6 Reweaving the Material Past: Textual Restoration of Two Lost Textiles from St Albans
Kathryn Gerry
7 Matthew Paris, Metalwork and the Jewels of St Albans
Judith Collard
8 Illustrating the Material Past: A Pictorial Treasury in the Late-Medieval Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey
Deirdre Carter
9 Lost and Found: Gothic Ivories in Late Medieval French Household Records
Katherine A. Rush
10 Ivories in French Royal Inventories, 1325-1422: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age?
Marian Bleeke
11 Parisian Painters and their Missing Oeuvres: Evidence from the Archives
Katherine Baker
12 The Mythical Outcast Medieval Leper: Perceptions of Leper and Anchorite Squints
Victoria Yuskaitis
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
General Index