Gothic Art & Thought in the Later Medieval Period Edited by: Colum Hourihane The conference on the Gothic that took place in Princeton in March 2009 was a follow-up to the successful event devoted to Romanesque held two years earlier […]. The essays aim to look at what we have researched - and perhaps over emphasized at times - in the field of Gothic studies, but they also aim to see what have been neglected and to look at the reasons why. This volume strives to expand the fields for study in the period and to show the younger generation of scholars what still remains to be done. Its twin goals are historiographic and iconographic […] The general problem with the term Gothic is that it is too broad, attempting to cover too great a period of time as well as too expansive a geographic area […] […] These essays demonstrate the value of having continued to work so conscientiously in the field of Gothic art. They are interdisciplinary and holistic in their approaches: some criticize while others applaud, but all make serious efforts to see where we are in terms of the Gothic period. All of the authors attempted to combine an overview of their respective field with new material […]