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Richard Leson

  • Associate Professor, Medieval Art and Architecture, Art History
  • Department Chair, Art History

Education

  • PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, 2007
  • BA, Mary Washington College, 1998

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ARTHIST 326-001 Chivalry and Spirituality: French Gothic Art and Architecture MW 10am-11:15am
ARTHIST 326G-001 Chivalry and Spirituality: French Gothic Art and Architecture MW 10am-11:15am

Courses Taught

  • ARTHIST 101 - Ancient to Medieval Art and Architecture
  • ARTHIST 220 - The Beginning of Medieval Art
  • ARTHIST 324 - Art and Architecture of Byzantium
  • ARTHIST 325 - Early Medieval Art in the West
  • ARTHIST 327 - Art and Architecture of Islamic Spain
  • ARTHIST 329 - Art and Architecture of the Late Middle Ages
  • ARTHIST 425 - Romanesque Art and Architecture
  • ARTHIST 426 - French Gothic Art and Architecture
  • ARTHIST 704 - Introduction to Art Museum Studies II
  • ARTHIST 720 - Relics and Reliquaries of the Middle Ages
  • ARTHIST 720 - Medieval Narrative Arts

Research Interests

The visual culture of the Middle Ages with specific concentrations in the areas of :

  • Medieval manuscript illumination
  • Heraldry
  • Sigillography
  • Devotional culture
  • Gender studies
  • Museum studies
  • Art associated with the crusades

Selected Publications

Leson, Richard A.“A Constellation of Crusade: The Resafa Heraldry Cup and the Aspirations of Raoul I, Lord of Coucy” The Crusades and Visual CultureEd. Lapina, Elizabeth. Ashgate. (2015): 75-90.
Leson, Richard A.“The Pathways of Salvation: Spatiality and Devotion in the Bute Psalter” Gesta53.2 (2014): 129-154.
Leson, Richard A.“Chivalry and Alterity: Saladin and The Remembrance of Crusade in a Walters Histoire d’Outremer” Journal of the Walters Art Museum68. (2011): 87-96.
Leson, Richard A.“Heraldry and Identity in the Psalter-Hours of Jeanne of Flanders (Manchester, John Rylands Library, Ms. lat. 117)” Studies in Iconography32. (2011): 155-98.

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