Lawrence Nees
Lawrence Nees received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1977. He has taught at the University of Delaware since 1978, where he is Professor in the Department of Art History. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies, and has been a resident scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art, Washington), and the American Academy in Berlin. He is currently the Vice-President of the International Center of Medieval Art, co-editor of Studies in Iconography, and book-reviews editor for art history for Speculum, the journal of the Medieval Academy of America. He is a specialist in the earlier medieval period, especially ca. 500-1000; his studies include consideration of illuminated manuscripts, ivory carvings, luxury metalwork, sculpture, and architecture, as well as historiographical issues and relationships between texts and images. Dr. Nees was editor of Approaches to Early-Medieval Art (1998), and is author of A Tainted Mantle: Hercules and the Classical Tradition at the Carolingian Court (1991), The Gundohinus Gospels (1987) and From Justinian to Charlemagne, European Art 565-787: An Annotated Bibliography (1985), in addition to numerous articles. He is currently completing work on Illuminating the Word: On the Beginnings of Medieval Book Decoration.
