New views of the Middle Ages: highlights from the Wyvern Collection

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"Medieval art. Wyvern Collection of Medieval and Early Renaissance art, at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. Examples of metalwork, ceramic, ivory, stone and wood sculpture, panel paintings and illuminated manuscripts from across Europe and Christian community of Ethiopia"--

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Foreword / Anne Collins Goodyear -- Introduction / Kathryn Gerry -- Medieval art in the twenty-first century / Kathryn Gerry -- Medieval art and modern life: reviving and re-imagining the Gothic for a new world / Ayla Lepine -- Portals to the past for the students of today: teaching with artworks in the museum / Stephen Perkinson -- Selected exhibition highlights -- Exhibition catalogue: introduction; The substance and craft of Medieval art; Global networks in the Middle Ages: looking beyond Europe; Body and self: constructing identity in Medieval art.