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Veronica Sekules is Head of Education at the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, and was formerly exhibitions and collections curator. Her original research interests were in the fields of sculpture and liturgical furnishings in England and Europe from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. She has also written about the art patronage and consumption of art by medieval women, and continues to work on these themes. She has published regularly in the fields of visual arts and museum education and modern art.

Sekules's (museum education, Sainsbury Centre, U. of East Anglia) book considers themes that unite works from different times and places, all illustrated with good quality color plates. The medieval sense of place, artists, the Church as patron, devotional art, learning, war, and pleasure are the book's themes. The volume will be a valuable complement to chronological texts; the thematic treatment will allow it to be used in courses on history as well as art history.

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