Books
Moving Women Moving Objects 400-1500, eds. Tracy Chapman Hamilton and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany (Brill’s Maps, Spaces, Cultures series, 2019)
“Given such broad geographical and temporal variety, it is worth noting the consistently high quality of the essays. This is surely due in part to the efforts of the editors, who appear to have been quite involved in the shaping and level of finish of each essay as well as in the conception of the volume as a whole. A sense of commitment, common purpose, enjoyment, and collaborative engagement comes through in the many cross-references that populate the footnotes […] Moving Women Moving Objects is excellent in itself and sets a high standard for future collaborative work on “object itineraries” that is global in its reach.”Sarah McNamer, Georgetown University. In: The Medieval Review
“Thanks to rigorous editorial control, outstanding levels of coherence and lucidity in the volume as a whole have been achieved. However varied the material, all contributions display similar structural clarity. The quality of scholarship is uniformly high, with analysis complemented by inclusion of family trees, maps, and numerous, beautifully reproduced color illustrations. A substantial select bibliography of secondary sources provides a valuable resource. This is an important work for medievalists, but sufficient contextual detail is provided to enable the nonspecialist to approach each topic, a significant feature in a work covering such a range of material and one which expands its usefulness to researchers in other fields, most notably court and women’s studies.” Sara Smart, Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 74 , Issue 1 , Spring 2021 , pp. 273 – 275
“[…] this book is an important contribution to the study of medieval women, demonstrating the utility of ideas around the agency of objects for supplementing and revising extant evidence about their worlds. […] the strengths of this volume suggest the need for continued attention to movement and mobility at all levels of society and for many different kinds of aesthetic objects.” Michelle K. Oing, Stanford University. In: Speculum, 96/4 (October 2021), pp. 1178-1180.
“The chapters are fluently written and well-researched[…]The capacity to reveal new geographies, to show how women and their things created places united across space, interlacing diverse spheres, is the major contribution of this volume and opens the door to further studies of medieval and early modern women through the lens of materiality in motion.” Erin J. Cambell in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021.
Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France: The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie of Brabant (1260-1321) (Brepols Publishing, Harvey Miller Series, 2019)
Winner of the 2020 International Center of Medieval Art Annual Book Prize.
The citation from the Book Prize Committee:
In Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France: The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie de Brabant (1260–1321),Tracy Chapman Hamilton presents an intellectually rich recuperation of an understudied Gothic patron, refined aesthete, and politically savvy survivor in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Paris. In this exquisite, impeccably researched and abundantly illustrated cultural history, the author examines ways in which a medieval queen asserted political influence through systematic patronage. Marie also created the model later queens, such as Marie’s granddaughter, Jeanne d’Evreux, would emulate at the end of the Capetian dynasty, and long into the tumultuous Valois period of the Hundred Years’ War. Given the author’s extensive firsthand experience with developments in feminist art historical practice since the 1990s, the book doubles as a historiographic journey of both medieval and modern struggle and renewal, supplying an exemplary model of herstory for others to follow. Manuscripts, shrines, seals, funerary sculpture, reliquaries, and stained glass illustrate an extraordinary medieval life in which one royal woman, Marie, exerted Brabantine influence over courtiers in Paris, supplied a catalyst for the development of vernacular French traditions in verse, lyric and song, cultivated pilgrimage, and supplied a cultural linchpin fostering the arts at the turn of the fourteenth century in medieval France.
Reviews of Pleasure and Politics:
“Tracy Chapman Hamilton has given us a sumptuous volume that through elegant design
and splendid color illustrations conjures up the glory of late-thirteenth-century Parisian
court art. Hamilton’s subject, Marie of Brabant, the second wife and effectively first queen
of Philip III, King of France, provides an opportunity to test Susan Groag Bell’s assertion, in
her groundbreaking and indeed near-visionary 1982 article, “Medieval Women Book Owners: Arbiters of Lay Piety and Ambassadors of Culture” (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 7 [1982]: 742–68), that women who were married away from their native lands shaped art and literature by the books they brought with them to their new homes. Many scholars of aristocratic women have developed Bell’s thesis, but few have had as much evidence to back up the assertion as Hamilton, given the number of manuscripts that can be associated with Marie of Brabant and her patronage across media….Readers will note that Hamilton makes large claims for Marie of Brabant: that she shaped “the flow of an entire era” (93), and that, by promoting her Brabantine heritage, she led her stepson, Philip IV, to reorganize the dynastic message of the royal tombs at Saint-Denis. All students of royal women will applaud Hamilton for positing this much agency for a late Capetian queen. Hamilton’s efforts, here and in her recent handsome co-edited volume with Mariah Proctor-Tiffany (Moving Women Moving Objects (400–1500) [2019]), make outstanding contributions to the discourse on medieval queens.” Kathleen Nolan, in Speculum, 96/3, 2021, p. 829-30
“Insgesamt besticht das Buch durch seine sorgfältige und aufwändige Gestaltung gleichermaßen wie durch die hohe wissenschaftliche Qualität, dicht und gut lesbar geschrieben. Der fundierte und ausführliche Fußnotenapparat bietet neben der intensiven Diskussion der Literatur zum Thema auch die Betrachtung der handschriftlichen Überlieferung, vor allem von Rechnungen, Inventaren und Manuskripten, während die Materialität und Visualität der Quellen über die hochwertigen Illustrationen gleichermaßen Berücksichtigung finden. Insgesamt ein inspirierendes Buch, mit dem die Autorin zweifellos Maßstäbe für die Erforschung weiblicher Patronage setzt.” Christina Antenhofer, in Archivs für Kulturgeschichte, 103/1, 2021, p. 242
“Beautifully produced, thoroughly researched, and clearly written, Tracy Chapman Hamilton’s monograph on Marie of Brabant is a welcome contribution to studies of female patrons (…) Hamilton’s book is a perfect length and it is a testament to her work that it inspires further reflections. This book will certainly be the starting point for all future studies of Marie of Brabant. With its wide-ranging sources and consideration of diverse media, it offers a model for anyone who wishes to undertake an in-depth study of a female patron.” Anna Russakoff, in Studies in Iconography, 42, 2021, p. 206-208
“This lavishly produced book explores the artistic and literary patronage of Marie of Brabant (…) Bringing together scattered material and research, this sprawling study gives Marie her full due.” Lindy Grant, in The Burlington Magazine, 162, May 2020, p. 456
« Ce très beau livre de Tracy Chapman Hamilton, à la belle et complète iconographie illustre parfaitement le rôle central tenu par une reine dont le patronage a inauguré celui d’une longue suite de souveraines qui ont donné une impulsion majeure aux différents arts de la fin du XIIIe et le début du XIVe siècle.» Élisabeth Lalou, dans Francia Recensio, 2, 2020
“A beautifully produced volume with an impressive 165 figures, most in color and many of which are full-page reproductions, this tome stands as a model of scholarship for its comprehensive scope, lucid prose, thoughtfully structured narrative, insightful artistic and textual analyses, and well-crafted argument. The author’s meticulous research is most evident in extensive footnotes with scrupulously cited historical, archival, and scholarly sources that abundantly contextualize her claims, address secondary arguments, or develop ancillary points….Scholars and specialists of medieval art history, history, literature and culture, feminist studies and history of the book will discover many other treasures in this admirably researched volume.” Cynthia J. Brown, in H-France Review, 20/110, 2020, p. 4
“(…)this is a fine study that not only sheds light on the atmosphere of material culture propagated by this queen’s taste and designs, but also provides us with greater insight into how queens consort might have exercised agency in shaping their image and representation. While its audience who are knowledgeable in the area of symbolism in art and sculpture may gain more from this book, those more general readers will also find much to interest them in understanding what art and culture had to say about the lives of its patrons and their needs and desires.” Michele Seah, in Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 7, 2020, p. 94-95
“Vanuit kunsthistorisch en genderhistorisch oogpunt is dit boek een aanrader. (…) Het biedt een mooie inkijk in het Franse hof rond 1300 en de vorstelijke c.q. adellijke rol in de productie van handschrifen en andere (kunst)voorwerpen. Het is mooi dat in het boek het bredere belang van de hertogelijke familie van Brabant in West-Europa wordt verduidelijkt.” Mark Vermeer in Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek, 2020, p. 222
Essays
With Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, “Inscribing Her Presence: Mapping Women in Fourteenth-Century Paris,” Medieval People: Social Bonds, Kinship and Networks Vol. 37: Iss. 1, Article 3 (2022). Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medpros/vol37/iss1/3 also see: MappingtheMedievalWoman.com
Tracy Chapman Hamilton and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, “Women and the Circulation of Material Culture: Crossing Boundaries and Connecting Spaces,” Moving Women Moving Objects 400-1500, eds. Tracy Chapman Hamilton and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany (Brill’s Maps, Spaces, Cultures series, 2019), 1-12
“Sur la route…The Patronage of Location in Late Capetian France,” Peregrinations vol. 2 (Summer 2009), 77-117
“Queenship and Kinship in the Bible moralisée: the Example of Blanche of Castile and Vienna 2554,” Capetian Women, edited by Kathleen Nolan (New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2003), 177-208
Blog posts and website entries
“Can COVID-19 Reinvigorate our Teaching? Employing Digital Tools for Spatial Learning,” co-authored with Liz Lastra for Art History Teaching Resources (mid-August 2020)
“Visualizing Research through ArcGIS StoryMaps,” Tool Talk and User Guide for Middle Ages for Educators (April, 2021)
Feature essay on the 8th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Islamic Art Symposium (November 9-11th) and of the Doha museums for the International Center of Medieval Art Newsletter (spring 2020)
Book reviews and Encyclopedic Entries
Book review of Anna Russakoff, Imagining the Miraculous: Miraculous Images of the Virgin Mary in French Illuminated Manuscripts, ca. 1250–ca. 1450. (Text Image Context: Studies in Medieval Manuscript Illuminations 7; Studies and Texts 215. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2019) for Speculum 96.2 (March 2021)
Book review of Laura Weigert, French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015) for Speculum (2017)
Gothic Sculpture in America, III: The Museums of New York and Pennsylvania, eds. Joan A. Holladay and Susan L. Ward, Publications of the International Center of Medieval Art, 6 (2016),invited author
Entries on “Artois”, “Besançon,” “Evreux,” “Guillaume de Nangis,” and “Burgundy, county of” for Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by Robert E. Bjork (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010)
Entries on “Prague,” “Charles IV,” “Master Theoderic,” and “Parler Brothers” for Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia, edited by John M. Jeep (New York: Garland, 2000)
In progress
The Ceremonial Landscape: Geography, Gender, and Art in the Late Medieval World (funded by the Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship; in conversation with publishers)
The book builds on the work of cultural geographers who posit culture as spatial, space as ideological, and landscape as key to issues of power, identity, and social regulation. I argue that the patronage of royal women activates and connects the diverse set of lands of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin, Africa, and Asia. By reorganizing the visualization of relationships through the study of both object circulation and architectural permanence, this project draws attention to the crucial contributions of political and social power that women brought to medieval rulership through their familial and social networks and suggests that elite women had a different type of territory, one less defined by political boundaries and more delineated by relationships.
With Sean Field (History, University of Vermont) and Erica Kinias (Architectural History, Brown University), “Making an Entrance: Queen Marie of Brabant’s Patronage of Longchamp,” submitted for review.
This interdisciplinary article traces Marie’s intensifying identification with the female Franciscan abbey of Longchamp, founded just west of Paris by Isabelle of France (1225-70) and her brother King Louis IX of France (1214-70), in order to shed new light on her patterns of patronage and to illuminate further the larger history of Capetian women’s architectural investment in royal monasteries. From her first demonstrated attraction to Longchamp and other female Franciscan houses shortly after her arrival in Paris, the queen expressed an increasingly precise desire to shape the terms of her own access to the abbey, culminating in her intriguing request to create an entirely new entrance that would meet her own needs. Combining textual and spatial analysis, we are able to reconstruct Queen Marie’s architectural goals at Longchamp.
Special issue of the Digital Art History Journal, “Dismantling the Patriarchal Canon through Digital Art History”Editors: Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Dana Hogan, Mariah Proctor-Tiffany. Based upon a College Art Association panel of the same name we have collected a set of 8 essays with a call ready to go out for more in the spring of 2023.
“Seated on a Pillow: Cultural and Collaborative Translatio Between Arabic, Iberian, and Northern European Medieval Courts” (preparing to submit to Mediterranean Studies)
Tracy Chapman Hamilton and Erin White, “Creating a Neatline Exhibit: Spatio-Temporal Mapping in the Digital Humanities,” The Programming Historian (in draft, fall 2020)
Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Sarah Ann Campbell, Monica Kinsey, and Jeanette Vigliotti, “Race in Medieval Richmond: A Digital Exploration of Race and the Urban Landscape in Turn-of-the-Century Richmond,” (in draft, spring 2020)
Mariah Proctor-Tiffany and Tracy Chapman Hamilton, invited authors, “Digital Mapping to Undo Cultural Forgetting: Women and Object Movement in Medieval Europe,” (in draft)
Invited author for “Visualizing Networks,” Artl@s Bulletin on Mapping the Medieval Woman
Women’s Patronage in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, in discussion with authors and presses
“Trajectories of Materiality: the Transfer of Objects by Jeanne de Bourgogne et Artois” (preparing to submit to Speculum)
Mapping the Medieval Woman: the Case Studies, co-edited by Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, and Tracy Chapman Hamilton (in discussion with Oxford University Press and the Beyond Medieval Europe Series)
Sessions Organized
“Dismantling the Patriarchal Canon: Foregrounding Women Artists and Patrons through Digital Art History,” Digital Art History Society Sponsored Session, Annual College Art Association Conference (Chicago, February 2022), co-chairs, Dana Hogan (PhD Candidate, Duke University) and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany (Associate Professor, California State University, Long Beach)
“Moving Women, Moving Objects 300-1500,” International Center of Medieval Art Sponsored Session, 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan (Kalamazoo, MI, May 2015), co-chair, Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, California State University, Long Beach
“Moving Women, Moving Objects 300-1500,” International Center of Medieval Art Sponsored Session, Annual College Art Association Conference (New York City, February 2015), co-chair, Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, California State University, Long Beach
“The Digital Art History Syllabus,” THATCamp, CAA2015 (New York City, February 2015)
“The Ceremonial Landscape: Topography and Ritual in Medieval Paris,” 40th Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI), May 2005
Selected Papers
Invited lecture for “The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Medieval Studies – A Global Digital Medievalist Symposium” held during the summer of 2021
“VCUarts Virtual Anderson: Promoting Greater Accessibility, Student Engagement, and Preserving the Archive in the Gallery during COVID-19 and Beyond,” MuseWeb21, Tracy Chapman Hamilton for the Virtual Anderson Team (Chelsea Brtis, Clay Harper, Chlo Finley, Monica Kinsey, and Chase Westfall)
“Global Makers: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe and Asia”. Joint presentation in the “Pre-Modern Women as Artists, Patrons and Collectors” session by Tanja L. Jones and Doris Sung (Department of Art & Art History, The University of Alabama) and Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Association for Art History Annual Conference (14 – 17 April 2021) On-Line Event, originally scheduled to be held at the University of Birmingham, UK.
“VCUarts Virtual Anderson: Increasing Inclusive Access to Gallery Exhibitions during COVID-19 and Beyond” accepted to “Museums Managing Crisis in a Virtual World” session, College Art Association Annual Conference (February 10-13, 2021)
Session Chair and Roundtable participant in “Queens on the Threshold,” International Medieval Conference, Leeds (July 6-9, 2020) (rescheduled for 2021, but moderated “Noblewomen Pushing the Boundaries” at the vIMC 2020)
“Women’s Landscapes and the Circulation of Material Culture: Crossing Boundaries and Connecting Spaces,” in the session “Beyond ‘Virgin’ Lands: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gendered Landscapes,” International Medieval Conference, Leeds (July 6-9, 2020) (rescheduled for 2021, but moderated “Noblewomen Pushing the Boundaries” at the vIMC 2020)
Invited guest speaker on Mapping the Medieval Woman for University of Mary Washington’s Art History, Women and Gender Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Programs, and their Digital Liberal Arts concentration (January 29-30th, 2020)
Leader of a workshop on Digital Mapping in Art History and the Humanities, especially for classroom projects, for the consortium of American Universities abroad at the Digital Humanities Institute held at the American University of Beirut (May 2019). Funded in part by the Mellon Foundation and the AMICAL Consortium
Medieval Black Richmond Lightning Talk, GIS Day, VCU (November 14 , 2018)
“Incorporating Spatial and Temporal Digital Mapping into Your Humanities Research and Teaching,” an online presentation given to the AMICAL (American International Consortium of Academic Libraries) University Consortium (November 14, 2018)
“Medieval Black Richmond,” African American Digital Humanities’s Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black Conference, joint presentation by Sarah Ann Campbell, Monica Kinsey, and Jeanette Vigliotti, overseen by Dr. Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Virginia Commonwealth University, Departments of Art History and Program in Media Art and Text (MATX) (October 18-21, 2018)
“Mapping the Medieval Woman through Object Foundation and Circulation,” 2018 Feminist Art History Conference, American University (September 28-30, 2018)
Leader in discussion of Historical Black Richmond at The New Souths THATCamp, VCU (August 2018)
“Commemorating Queenship through Object Foundation and Circulation,” in the session, “Memory – Public Display and Material Evidences I & II,” sponsored by (CESCM) Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale and IMS-Paris, 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan (Kalamazoo, MI, May 2018)
“Digital Art History: Mapping Medieval and Renaissance Objects and Networks” Fellow’s Talk, Workshop on the Digital Humanities, Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy, May 25th, 2017.
“Trajectories of Materiality: Mapping Women and their Books,” invited speaker for the session “New Perspectives on Medieval Women’s Patronage: Manuscripts, Power, and Materiality,” 50th Annual Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) Conference at Binghamton University (October 21 and 22, 2016).
“Digital Mapping to Undo Cultural Forgetting: Royal Women and Object Movement in Medieval France,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco (April 2016), paper delivered by Mariah Proctor-Tiffany (CSULB)
“Upping the Exchange: Why Students and Professors Alike Love the Digital Humanities,” invited speaker for the session “Digital Humanities in the Classroom: An Exchange” College Art Association, Washington D.C. (February 3-6, 2016)
“Networks of Precious Gems, Metals, and Vellum: GIS and Mapping the Circulation of Art by Women in Fourteenth-Century France,” in the session “Mapping Feminist Art Networks,” College Art Association, Washington D.C. (February 3-6, 2016)
“Inscribing Her Presence: Mapping the Queen in Fourteenth-Century France,” co-delivered with Mariah Proctor-Tiffany (California State University, Long Beach) and myself, invited speakers for the IMS-Paris Society Sponsored Session, 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan (Kalamazoo, MI, May 2015)
“Making Art Spatial: Mapping Medieval Women’s Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Europe,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (Chicago, April 2015)
“The Success and Lessons of the Kress Institute on Digital Mapping and Art History: The Example of Mapping the Medieval Queen,” invited speaker, Annual College Art Association Conference (New York City, February 2015)
“Research Questions in the Context of the Digital Humanities,” Sweet Briar College Honors Colloquium, December 3, 2014
Invited Lightning Talk on Mapping Medieval Women’s Patronage, NEH Digital Humanities in the Southeast Workshop, Atlanta, GA, October 29-30, 2014
“Digitally Mapping the Queen in Fourteenth-Century Paris,” invited speaker for the Session in Honor of Joan A. Holladay at the Texas Medieval Association Conference, October 2-4, 2014
“Sur la route…Topographic Patronage and the Genealogy of Location in Late Capetian France,” in the session “Placing the Middle Ages: Contextualizing towards a Geography of Material Culture” held jointly at the 96th Annual College Art Association Conference (Los Angeles, February 2008) and the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI), May2008
“Singing Her Praises: French Queen and Capital in Gothic Ceremony,” 42nd Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI), May 2007
“Romans or Estoire? Late Capetian History As Imagined for the Queen,” College Art Association 95th Annual Conference (New York, February 14-18, 2007)
“Complementing the King’s Image: Marie de Brabant as Queen of France and Carolingian Princess,” International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 10-13 July 2006
“Poetry, Politics, and Play: Text and Image of Arsenal 3142 and the Patronage of Marie de Brabant,” 41st Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI), May 2006
“La Royne de France est a Paris venue: Queen and City as Created by Marie de Brabant and Adenet le Roi,” International Medieval Society, Paris Société Internationale des Médiévistes, Paris, Symposium, June 30-July 2, 2005
“The Fabrication of Gendered Memory: Queenship, Topography, and Scholastic Patronage of the Colleges de Navarre and Bourgogne in Fourteenth-Century Paris,” 38th Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI), May 2003
“The State of the Art History Survey,” Roundtable Discussion sponsored by Prentice Hall Publishers, College Art Association Annual Meeting, February 2002
“Pilgrimage and Patronage: Jeanne de Bourgogne and the Hôpital Saint-Jacques-aux-Pèlerins,” Seeing Gender: Perspectives on Medieval Gender and Sexuality (King’s College, London) January 2002
“Suspected and Resurrected: Jeanne de Bourgogne and Engendered Patronage in Late Capetian Paris,” 35th Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI), May 2000
“A Room of her Own: The Architectural Patronage of Marie de Brabant,” 35th Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI), May 1999
Participant in Roundtable Discussion on the Bibles moralisées, 33rd Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI), May 1997
“Queenship and Kinship in the Bible moralisée: The Example of Blanche of Castile and Vienna 2554,” 31st Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI), May 1995