Lecturer and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Medieval Art; Gothic Ivories
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2009
Sarah Guérin is an expert in medieval ivories, especially those of northern Europe of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Her multifaceted approach to this corpus of objects merges traditional methodologies of stylistic and formal analysis with discourses of religious history, the anthropology of the image, and material culture. Her recent work on the latter has shown how the transnational trade networks that brought elephant tusks to northern shores link ivory objects to the broader economic contexts of the high Middle Ages. Seeing ivory in relationship to other luxury and bulk commodities frames the study of an individual medium within wider patterns of production and consumption. This foundation informs her more specific case studies. Guérin is currently preparing a manuscript on the function of the so-called Soissons group of ivory diptychs and triptychs in private devotion. Her new project considers the position, both liturgical and theological, of ivory statuettes on the ceremonial stage of the Mass, the altar.
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Telepone: (212) 854-1938
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