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Education
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2002; M.A. University of Texas at Austin, 1994; B.A. Oberlin College, 1990
Area of Specialization
Medieval Art, Nineteenth-Century Medievalism
Courses Taught
AHRU 1100 Introduction to Art History (Artists, Patrons and Viewers in Context)
AHRU 2320 Medieval Art (The Power of the Image in the Middle Ages)
AHRU 3350 The Age of Cathedrals
HPRU 1051 Medieval Art and Literature (Encountering the Image in the Middle Ages) [with Katherine Little, Dept. of English]
MVGA 5070 Manuscript Culture (Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: History and Historiography)
Biography
Nina Rowe specializes in the art of northern Europe in the high Middle Ages (12th-14th century). Her work has examined Christian representations of Jews and Judaism in contexts ranging from monumental cathedral façade sculpture to miniature hand-held carved ivories. She is also interested the production and reception of illuminated manuscripts in both the medieval and the modern eras.
Selected Publications
The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2011). [Finalist for the 2012 Charles Rufus Morey Prize, College Art Association]
“Pocket Crucifixions: Jesus, Jews and Ownership in Fourteenth-Century Ivories,” Studies in Iconography 32 (2011): 81-120.
“Rethinking Ecclesia and Synagoga in the Thirteenth Century,” in Gothic, Art & Thought in the Later Medieval Period: Essays in Honor of Willibald Sauerländer, ed. Colum Hourihane (Penn State University Press, 2011), 264-91.
“Idealization and Subjection at the South Porch of Strasbourg Cathedral,” in Beyond the Yellow Badge: Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture, ed. Mitchell Merback (Brill, 2008), 179-202.
“Synagoga Tumbles, a Rider Triumphs: Clerical Viewers and the Fürstenportal of Bamberg Cathedral,” Gesta (The Journal of the International Center of Medieval Art) 45, no. 1 (2006): 15-42.
[Winner of the Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize for best first article in the field of Medieval Studies, awarded by the Medieval Academy of America]
Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences – Essays in Honor of Sandra Hindman (Ashgate Press, 2004). Co-Editor with David Areford.
Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction (Dist. Oak Knoll Press). Co-Author with Sandra Hindman, Michael Camille and Rowan Watson.
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