Nancy Netzer

Professor of Art History
Director, McMullen Museum of Art

Ph.D. Harvard University

617-552-8587
netzer@bc.edu 

Fields of Interest

Professor Netzer teaches courses on European medieval art of the first millennium and the history and philosophy of museums from the classical period to the present. Her research focuses on illuminated manuscripts and metalwork of Britain, Ireland and the Continent in the early medieval period and on the collecting, publication and display of medieval art from the early modern period to the present. She is currently completing a book on the Book of Durrow, to be published by the British Library/University of Toronto Press and the chapter on Irish Manuscripts for the History of the Book in Britain (Cambridge University Press). She has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation and the American Council for Learned Societies, as well as numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Selected Publications

Books

• Cultural Interplay in the Eighth Century: The Trier Gospels and the Making of a Scriptorium at Echternach, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Medieval Objects in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Metalwork. Boston, 1991.
• With Hanns Swarzenski, Medieval Objects in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
  Enamels and Glass, Boston, 1986.
• Editor with Virginia Reinburg. Memory and the Middle Ages, Chestnut Hill, 1995.
• Editor with Virginia Reinburg. Fragmented Devotion: Medieval Objects from the Schnutgen Museum in Cologne, Chestnut Hill, 2000.
• Editor, Secular/Sacred, Chestnut Hill, 2006.

Recent Articles

• "Art Full Ground: Unearthing an Irish Past," in Vera Kreilkamp, ed. Eire/Land,
  Chestnut Hill, MA, 2003, pp. 49-56.
• "Style: A history of uses and abuses in the study of Insular Art," in Redknap, Edwards, Youngs, Lane and Knight, eds. Pattern and Purpose in Insular Art, Oxford, 2002,
  pp. 169-177.
• "Collecting, Re/collecting, Contextualizing and Recontextualizing: Devotion to Fragments of the Middle Ages," Fragmented Devotion: Medieval Objects from the Schnütgen Museum, Cologne, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2000, pp. 17-30.
• "Die Arbeitsmethoden der insularen Scriptorien Zwei Fallstudien: Lindisfarne und Echternach," in J. Schroeder, ed. Die Abtei Echternach 698-1998, Luxembourg, 1999,
  pp. 65-83.
• "The Book of Durrow: The Northumbrian Connection," in J. Hawkes ed. The Golden Age of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1999.