List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction Elizabeth Carson Pastan and Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz PART 1 Visual and Documentary Testimonies 1 The Medieval Glazier at Work Sarah Brown 2 Early History of Stained Glass Francesca Dell'Acqua 3 Longing for the Heavens: Romanesque Stained Glass in the Plantagenet Domain Anne Granboulan 4 Chartres: Glazing the Cathedral Claudine Lautier 5 Design and Execution in Southern German Stained Glass of the Late Middle Ages and the Age of Dürer Hartmut Scholz PART 2 Light and the Aperture 6 A Matter of Matter: Transparent - Translucent - Diaphanum in the Medium of Stained Glass Wojciech Balus 7 Stained Glass and the Gothic Interior in the 12th and 13th Centuries Ellen M. Shortell 8 Windows in Domestic Settings in France in the Late Middle Ages: Enclosure and Decoration in the Social Living Space Michel Hérold 9 "Consider the Glass, It Can Teach You": the Medium's Lesson Herbert L. Kessler PART 3 Approaches to Glass 10 Performative Interaction of Liturgy and Light through the Medium of Painted Glass Madeline H. Caviness 11 Stories in Windows: the Architectonics of Narrative Alyce A. Jordan 12 The Reception of Stained Glass Anne F. Harris 13 Using Style to Interpret Medieval Stained Glass: a Case Study at Beauvais Michael W. Cothren 14 Saints' Lives and Stained Glass Ashley J. Laverock 15 Female Donors of Medieval Stained-Glass Windows Christine Hediger PART 4 Types of Glass 16 Regarding the Early Rose Window Elizabeth Carson Pastan 17 French Grisaille Glass Meredith P.

Lillich 18 Architecture, Liturgical Space, and Glazed Decoration: the Example of the Upper Windows of Bourges Cathedral Karine Boulanger 19 The Silver-Stained Roundel in Northern Europe Timothy B. Husband PART 5 Workshopping the Window 20 Medieval Textual Sources on Stained Glass: From Theophilus to the Monk of Zagan Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz 21 The Creation of Stained Glass in Central Italy, 1250-1400 Nancy M. Thompson 22 Medieval Glaziers' Workshops in Norwich David King 23 French 14th-Century Stained Glass and Other Arts Françoise Gatouillat PART 6 Post-Medieval Reflections 24 The Beginnings of Stained-Glass Collecting in Germany Uwe Gast 25 Out of Context: Portraits of Private Collectors and Their Medieval Stained Glass Mary B. Shepard 26 Stained Glass: Heritage and Creation, Materiality in All Its States Isabelle Pallot-Frossard Index.