109 Pickard Hall Columbia, Missouri 65211-1420   phone: 573-882-6711   fax: 573-884-5269   email: aha@missouri.edu

Anne Rudloff Stanton

Associate Professor and Department Chair
Medieval and Northern Renaissance Art
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin

mailing address:
Department of Art History and Archaeology
109 Pickard Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-1420

phone: 573-882-9496
fax: 573-884-5269
email: StantonA@missouri.edu

Teaching

• AHA 1110: History of Western Art, I
• AHA 1120: History of Western Art, II
• AHA 2150: Art of the Book: Illuminated Manuscripts
• AHA 3530: Late Medieval Art
• AHA 3630: Northern Renaissance Art (writing intensive)
• AHA 4530/7530: Romanesque Art
• AHA 4540: Gothic Art and Architecture
• AHA 4660: Renaissance Figural Arts
• AHA 8520: Seminar in Medieval Art
• Recent undergraduate topics courses have explored Gothic cathedrals, illuminated manuscripts, and the Renaissance artist Hieronymus Bosch.
• Recent graduate seminars have included studies of the medieval city, insular manuscripts, medieval women as patrons and makers of art, and other topics.

Research

My work centers around the relationships of decoration and function in devotional manuscripts from 14th-century England, with a particular focus on a group of prayerbooks decorated with narrative sequences in their initials and margins.  Some of these manuscripts have been connected with the patronage or use of Isabella of France, the queen of Edward II of England and mother of Edward III, and I am also working on  a study that looks broadly at architectural projects, manuscripts, and other objects that have been connected to her.

Selected Publications

In addition to book reviews and various entries for Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (2006) and the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (forthcoming 2008), publications in this millennium include a book, The Queen Mary Psalter:  A Study of Affect and Audience (Philadelphia:  American Philosophical Society, 2001 -- winner of the APS Millennium Award) and the following essays:

"The Psalter of Isabelle of France, Queen of England:  Isabelle as the Audience" Word & Image 18 (2002): 1-27.

"Isabelle of France and her Manuscripts, 1308-1358," in Capetian Women, ed. Kathleen Nolan, The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003):  225-252 and Figures 10.1 - 10.7

"Margaret Rickert (1888-1973):  Art Historian," in Women Medievalists in the Academy, ed. Jane Chance.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.  Pp. 285-94.

"Queen Mary and her Psalter: a Gothic Manuscript in Tudor England," in Medieval Art and Architecture After the Middle Ages, eds. Alyce Jordan and Janet Marquardt (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar's Press, forthcoming 2008).

"Turning the Pages: Marginal Narratives and Devotional Practice in Gothic Prayerbooks," in Push Me, Pull You: Interaction, Physicality, and Devotional Practice in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. Sarah Blick and Laura Gelfand (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2010).

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Tree of Jesse from the
Queen Mary Psalter
(detail)

The Queen Mary Psalter
Anne Rudloff Stanton
2001