Editor, The Early History of Lincoln Castle, Nottingham 2005.

The origins of this book lie in a conference which I co-organised with Jenny Vernon (now the Buddhist nun Lekso), with whom I organised a conference at Lincoln Castle.  The book includes essays by David Stocker, Michael Thompson, David Parsons, Lisa Donel and Michael Jones, Pamela Marshall, Paul Dalton and Derek Renn.  What is most remarkable is the contentious nature of the interpretations of physical and documentary evidence.  It is a fascinating case study of different methodologies producing conflicting explanations.

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Contributor and editor, Making Medieval Art, Donington 2003 (227 & xii pp, 113 plates). ISBN 1-900289-59-8 (pb). ISBN 1-900289-60-1 (hb)

This book originated in a much larger project which had been commissioned from my former head of department.  When that foundered, I selected the best medieval essays and commissioned some new ones to provide a thorough introduction to the practical aspects of medieval art production, accompanied by a series of case studies.  Each essay is by a leading scholar in the field: there are chapters by Roger and Leslie Ling on Fresco; Ann Massing on Tempera painting; Achim Timmermann on workshop practices of medieval painters; Dale Kinney on Ravenna mosaics; Martin Werner on the beginning of Insular manuscript illumination; Lesley Ling on the Bayeux Tapestry; Angel Sicart Giménez on the Pórtico de la Gloria of Santiago de Compostela; Brendan Cassidy on Giotto’s Arena Chapel; Axel Bolvig on Danish medieval wall paintings; Dagmar Eichberger on the winged altarpiece in Early Netherlandish art; Miriam Gill on the wall paintings on Eton College Chapel; and my own essay on Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster.

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Contributor and co-editor, with Professor Axel Bolvig, History and Images: Towards a New Iconology, Turnhout 2003 (430 & xxx pp, 26 colour and numerous b&w plates). ISBN 2-503-51155-4

This collection of essays dervives from a conference organised by Professor Axel Bolvig in Copenhage in 1999.  I co-edited the book with Axel.  It contains nineteen essays by the editors and by internationally celebrated scholars such as Fancis Haskell; Jean-Claude Schmitt; Keith Moxey; Jérôme Baschet; Jörgen van der Berg, Hans Brandhorst & Peter van Huisstede; Simon Niedenthal; Rolf-Jürgen Grote & Annette Hornschuch; Frank Colson, Jean Colson, Ross Parry & Andrew Sawyer; Gerhard Jaritz; Michael Camille; Jean Wirth; Helena Edgren; Anna Nilsén; Ulla Haastrup; Norbert Schnitizler; Søren Kaspersen; and Liene Liepe.

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Contributor and co-editor, with Dr Martin Henig, Alban and St. Albans, Leeds 2001 (270 & xviii pp, numerous b&w and 9 colour plates). ISBN 1-902653-40-8 (hb). ISBN 1-902653-39-4 (pb).

This volume includes nineteen essays co-edited with Martin Henig, the fruits of the British Archaeological Association Conference at St Albans in 1999.  About a third of the papers were concerned with the Roman past; the rest focus on the Romanesque and later church, as well as its incredibly rich fittings and furnishings.

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Contributor and co-editor, with Dr T Frangenberg, Secular Sculpture 1300-1550, Stamford 2000 (253 & vi pp, 96 plates).

This book contains essays by international scholars on aspects of Secular Sculpture in the late medieval and early modern periods.  It originated in a conference at the University of Leicester.

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Contributor and editor, Sculpture Conservation: Preservation or Interference? Aldershot 1997 (208 & xxxii b&w plates, lxv colour plates). ISBN 1-85928-254-7

This book includes twenty essays by contributors to the international conference organised by John Larson at Liverpool.  The field of sculpture conservation has long been a highly contentious one.  The decision not to restore the Elgin marbles in 1816 marked an important break with previous practices.  Today the types of ‘restoration’ which had been favoured from the Renaissance onwards are generally avoided in favour of ‘conservation’ procedures.  However, conservation practices themselves are highly problematic and the distinction between conservation and restoration is not always clear.

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Contributor and co-editor, with W.M. Ormrod, The Black Death in England, Stamford 1996 (208 pp, 12 plates), reprinted 2003. ISBN 1-871615-56-9.

The plague now commonly known as the Black Death, swept through Europe in the late 1340s, reaching England in 1348.  It had the greatest mortality rate in recorded history: between and third and a half of the population perished in appalling agony. The book, introduced by Jeremy Goldberg, contains four essays. Jim Bolton examined the plague as an agent of economic and social change; Christoper Harper-Bill considered the English church and religion; I looked at the effects of the plague on art and architecture; and Mark Ormrod analysed politics in England following the plague.

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Contributor and editor, Gainsborough Old Hall, Gainsborough 1991 (88 A4 pp). ISBN 0-904680-96-7.

This book of eight essays originated at a conference I co-organised with Jenny Vernon at Gainsborough Old Hall.Editorial work took place during my British Acdaemy Post-doctoral Fellowship.  It includes essays by S.J. Gunn; M.W. Thompson; Jenny Vernon; Naomi Field; M.V. Clark; Paul Austin & Elizabeth Hirst; and Linda Woolley.

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Contributor and co-editor with S.J. Gunn, Cardinal Wolsey: Church, State and Art , Cambridge 1991 (329 & xvi pp, 74 plates).

This book developed from a conference hosted at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge in 1988, when I was a Research Fellow there. 

Thomas Wolsey was England’s leading statesman, churchman and patron of the arts for over fourteen years in Henry VIII’s reign.  In examining Wolsey’s career in all its aspects – not least the cultivation of artistic magnificence which so struck his contemporaries, the book provides a fuller and more balanced understanding of Wolsey’s impact on early Tudor England and of his significance in a dramatic and controversial period of history.  Contributors included Roger Bowers; Keith Brown; Philippa Glanville; John Guy; E.W. Ives; John Newman; Simon Thurley; Greg Walker; Hilary Wayment; S.J. Gunn; and myself. 

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