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Diane Reilly | Faculty

Associate Professor, Department of History of Art


E-mail: dreilly@indiana.edu

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Education

Ph.D. University of Toronto

Research Interests

• Romanesque illuminated manuscript, especially Giant Bibles and early Cistercian Office manuscripts
• The process and functions of text illustration in monastic culture
• The image of the medieval king and queen

Selected Publications

• The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages: Production, Reception and Performance in Western Christianity, eds. Susan Boynton and Diane Reilly (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).
• "Reconciliation and record keeping: heresy, civic dissent and the exercise of episcopal authority in eleventh-century Cambrai," with Steven Vanderputten (co-author), Journal of Medieval History 37, no. 4, (2011)
  
• "Education, Liturgy and Practice in early Cîteaux," in Understanding Monastic Practices of Oral Communication, ed. Steven Vanderputten, Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 21, series editor Marco Mostert (Turnhout:
  Brepols, 2011), 79-108.
• "Bernard of Clairvaux and Christian Art," in A Companion to Bernard of Clairvaux, Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, ed. Brian Patrick McGuire (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 279-304.
• The Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Saint-Vaast Bible, Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, v. 128 (Leiden: Brill, 2006).
• "The Three Faces of Esther in Romanesque Bible Illustrations," in Church, State, Vellum and Stone: Essays on Medieval Spain in Honor of John Williams on His 75th Birthday, eds. Julie Harris and Therese Martin (Leiden, 2005), 297-326.
• "The Cluniac Giant Bible and the Ordo librorum ad legendum: a reassessment of monastic Bible reading and Cluniac customary instructions," in From Dead of Night to End of Day: The Medieval Cluniac Customs/Du cour de la nuit à la fin du jour: les coutumes clunisiennes au Moyen Age, eds. Susan Boynton and Isabelle Cochelin, Disciplina Monastica 3 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), 163-189.
• "The French Giant Bible and its English Relatives: Blood Relations or Adopted Children?" Scriptorium LVI (2002), 294-311.
• "Picturing the Monastic Drama: Romanesque Bible Illustrations of the Song of Songs," Word & Image 17 Issue 4 (Winter, 2001), 389-400.

Courses taught

• Religion in Literature, Music Art & Performance: Monks, Nuns and Medieval Art (H235)
• Romanesque Art (A423)
• Introduction to Ancient to Medieval Art (A101)
• Illuminated Manuscripts in the Middle Ages: Form, Function, and Audience (A323/A522)
• Problems in Early Romanesque Art: The Normans (623)
• The Gothic Cathedral (A324)
• The Medieval City (A426/A520)
• Problems in Romanesque Art: Romanesque Manuscripts (A623)
• Problems in Early Gothic Art: Women as Artists, Patrons, and Audience in Medieval Art (A624)
• Problems in Early Gothic Art: Art & Architecture of the Cistercians (A624)
• Problems in Romanesque Manuscripts: Bibles, Psalters, the Liturgy and the Saints (A623)
• Storytelling in the Middle Ages: Medieval Narrative Art in Manuscripts, Mural Paintings and Mosaics (A622)
• Romanesque and Gothic Art (A322)