The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture and Community in the Cathedrals of France and German, CA. 1200-1400 Jacqueline E. Jung At the heart of Gothic cathedrals, the threshold between nave and sanctuary was marked by the choir screen, a partitioning structure of special complexity, grandeur, and beauty. At once a canopy for altars, a stage for performance, a pedestal for crucifixes and reliquaries, and a ground for spectacular arrays of narrative and iconic sculptures, the choir screen profoundly shaped the spaces of liturgy and social interaction for the diverse communities, both clerical and lay, who shared the church interior. For the first time, this book draws together the most important examples - some fully extant, others known through fragments and graphic sources - from thirteenth- and fourteenth-century France and Germany. Through analyses of both their architectural and sculptural components, Jacqueline E. Jung reveals how these furnishings, far from being barricades or hindrances, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of a community centered on Christian rituals and stories. Jacqueline Jung, Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art at Yale University, teaches on medieval European art and architecture, with a focus on Gothic cathedrals and allied arts. She has been a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale. In addition to her book and numerous articles on Gothic sculpture, she has translated seminal writings in German-language art history, most prominently Alois Riegl's Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts (published by Zone Books in 2004). Her current project explores movement, space, and the body in monumental sculpture of the 13th and 14th centuries.