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Richard Leson

Associate Professor of Art History

College of Letters & Science

Current Faculty or Staff Member

Richard A. Leson is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He holds a doctoral degree in Art History from the Johns Hopkins University (2007) with a concentration on manuscript painting in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. His research currently focuses on the art and architectural patronage of the French baronial family of Coucy, as well as the visual culture of the crusades. He is currently completing a monograph on the life and artistic patronage of Jeanne of Flanders, the unsung widow of Enguerrand IV of Coucy who played an important role in the Franco-Flemish wars of the early fourteenth century.

Topics:

History

Tags:

art history, Crusades, Jeanne of Flanders, medieval art