A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to medieval architecture, illumination sculpture, and the Romanesque and Gothic periods in Northern Europe. Comprised of 30 original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars, the volume covers the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives.The book is international in scope and ambitious in its range, including coverage of reception, Gregory the Great, collecting, pilgrimage art, gender, patronage, the marginal, spolia, and manuscript illumination. This Companion will be a prized reference for anyone studying this reinvigorated period of art history.