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\"Poster<\/a>Adelaide Bennett Hagens
\nArt Historian<\/h2>\n

Here is Adelaide’s Page.\u00a0 Following her retirement from the Index of Christian Art<\/a> at Princeton University on 1 July 2016, we celebrate her accomplishments with a Page on our website, with thanks for her continuing service to the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence as Trustee<\/a> and with appreciation for her generous contributions over decades to the fields of medieval studies, manuscript studies, and more.<\/p>\n

Formerly the website of the Index of Christian Art had a place to record Adelaide’s research interests and specialties, among the pages for its Staff (via https:\/\/artandarchaeology.princeton.edu\/people\/staff\/adelaide-bennett-hagens<\/span>, no longer online).\u00a0 Now, on the website of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, a gathering of information begins to appear here.<\/p>\n

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Background<\/h3>\n

The notice in the New York Times<\/em> for 19 August 1979<\/a> reports the marriage of Adelaide Louise Bennett to Herbert Orland Hagens of Princeton, and offers some brief biographical and educational background:<\/p>\n

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ward L. Bennett of Baltimore. A cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she has master’s and Ph.D. degrees in art history from Columbia University. Her father is a retired automotive engineer.<\/p>\n

Following the completion of the Ph.D., with a dissertation on a 13th-century Bible manuscript at Princeton University, Adelaide joined the staff of the Index of Christian Art, where she stayed for 50 years.\u00a0 While there, she moved through the positions of Research Assistant, Research Associate, Research Staff, Research Art Historian and Editor, and Research Art Historian \/ Research Scholar.\u00a0 Between the directorships of Colum Hourihane (1996\u20132014) and Pamela Patton (2015\u2013), she served also as the Acting Director.\u00a0 Now, settling into retirement, she returns to research, one of her main “loves” \u2014 along with Herbert, that is.<\/p>\n

From There to Here<\/h3>\n
\"2<\/a>

2 Princeton Trustees of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence. Adelaide Bennett and Giles Constable. 7 December 2015. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n

Some Publications
\n\u2014 All under the name “Adelaide Bennett”<\/h3>\n

Here we cite some of her publications, and we would be glad to add more.<\/p>\n

Please let us know if there remain some that we have missed, and we look forward to the next ones to emanate from her pen, pencil, or laptop.<\/p>\n

1. Book<\/h4>\n

Medieval\u00a0 & Renaissance Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library<\/em>, by Don C. Skemer, incorporating contributions by Adelaide Bennett, Jean F. Preston, William P. Stoneman, and the Index of Christian Art (2013, 2 volumes).<\/p>\n

2. Catalogue Booklet<\/h4>\n

A Summary Guide to Western Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Princeton University<\/em>, by Adelaide Bennett, Jean F. Preston and William P. Stoneman, (Princeton, 1991).<\/p>\n

3. Catalogue Entries<\/h4>\n

Catalogue entries for two manuscripts in the exhibition catalogue, Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold 800-1475<\/em><\/a>, with contributions by Adelaide Bennett and others (Leuven: Brepols Publisher, 2002), pp. 182\u2013183 (New York, Morgan Library, MS M. 730<\/a>, Psalter\u2013Hours), and pp. 214\u2013216 (Paris, Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France, MS nouv. acq. fr. 16251, Meditation Book of Madame Marie<\/em>).<\/p>\n

4. Articles<\/h4>\n

“The Chambly Hours: A Diminutive French Book of Hours of the Fourteenth Century (Ms. 2010-115) in the Princeton University Art Museum”, in Manuscripta Illuminata<\/em><\/a>: Approaches to Understanding Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts<\/em>, edited by Colum Hourihane (2014), pp. 240\u2013258, color pl. on p. 240, and color figs. 1\u201320.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome Perspectives on the Origins of Books of Hours in France in the Thirteenth Century,\u201d in Books of Hours Reconsidered<\/em><\/a>, ed. Sandra Hindman and James H. Marrow. \u00a0Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (London and Turnhout:\u00a0 Harvey Miller Publishers, 2013), pp. 19\u201340, figs. 1\u201316, and color pls. 1\u20138.<\/p>\n

“Issues of Female Patronage: French Books of Hours, 1220\u20131320”, in Patronage: Power & Agency in Medieval Art<\/em><\/a>, edited by Colum Hourihane.\u00a0 The Index of Christian Art, Occasional Papers, XV (University Park, PA: Index of Christian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), pp. 233\u2013255 and color figs. 1\u201318.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking Literate Lay Women Visible:\u00a0 Text and Image in French and Flemish Books of Hours, 1220-1320,\u201d in Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture: Liminal Spaces<\/em><\/a>, edited by Elina Gertsman and Jill Stevenson (Rochester, NY:\u00a0 Boydell and Brewer, 2012), pp. 125\u2013158 and figs. 1\u201314.<\/p>\n

\u201cA French Cleric\u2019s Prayer Book-Hours of the Early Thirteenth Century,\u201d in Tributes to Nigel Morgan; Contexts of Medieval Art:\u00a0 Images, Objects, and Ideas<\/em><\/a>, edited by Julian Luxford and Michael A. Michael (London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2010), pp. 23\u201332 and figs. 1\u20132.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeaves of a Fourteenth-Century, Franco\u2013Flemish Antiphonary Owned by John Ruskin (1819\u20131900),\u201d in Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts<\/em><\/a>, edited by Kathryn Smith and Carol Krinsky (London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2008),\u00a0 pp. 235\u2013251 and figs. 1\u20136.<\/p>\n

\u201cChrist\u2019s Five Wounds in the Aves<\/em> of the Vita Christi<\/em> in a Book of Hours around 1300,\u201d in Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow:\u00a0 Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance<\/em><\/a>, edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Anne Korteweg (Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2006), pp. 75\u201384 and figs. 1\u20136.<\/p>\n

\u201cDevotional Literacy of a Noblewoman in a Book of Hours of ca. 1300 in Cambrai,\u201d in Manuscripts in Transition: Recycling Manuscripts, Texts and Images<\/em><\/a>, edited by Brigitte Dekeyzer and Jan Van der Stock. Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 13 (Turnhout, 2005), pp. 149\u2013157.<\/p>\n

“David’s Written and Pictorial Biography in a Thirteenth-Century French Psalter\u2013Hours”, in Between the Picture and the Word: Essays in Commemoration of John Plummer<\/a><\/em>, edited by Colum Hourihane (University Park, PA:\u00a0 Penn State University Press, 2005), pp. 122\u2013140.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Transformation of the Gothic Psalter in Thirteenth-Century France,\u201d in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose and Placement of its Images<\/em>, edited by Frank O. B\u00fcttner (Turnhout, 2004),\u00a0 pp. 211\u2013221\u00a0 [publication from the International Conference on Psalters in Bamberg, Universit\u00e4t, 1999].<\/p>\n

\u201cCommemoration of Saints in Suffrages:\u00a0 From Public Liturgy to Private Devotion,\u201d in Objects, Images, and the Word: Art in the Service of the Liturgy<\/em>, ed. Colum Hourihane, Index of Christian Art, Occasional Papers 6, (Princeton, 2003), pp. 54\u201378.<\/p>\n

\u201cContinuity and Change in the Religious Book Culture of the Lowlands in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries,\u201d in Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold 800-1475<\/em><\/a> (Leuven, 2002), pp. 166\u2013179.<\/p>\n

“Mary Magdalen’s Seven Deadly Sins in a Thirteenth-Century Li\u00e8ge Psalter\u2013Hours”, in Insights and Interpretations: Studies in Celebration of the Eighty-fifth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art<\/a><\/em>, edited by Colum Hourihane (Princeton: Index of Christian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, in association with Princeton University Press: 2002), pp. 17\u201334 and figs. 1\u20139.<\/p>\n

“A Woman’s Power of Prayer versus the Devil in a Book of Hours of ca. 1300”, in Image and Belief: Studies in Celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art<\/a><\/em>, edited by Colum Hourihane (1999), pp. 89\u2013108.<\/p>\n

“A Thirteenth-Century French Book of Hours for Marie”, The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery<\/em>, 53 (1996), pp. 21\u201350.<\/p>\n

“The Scheide Psalter-Hours,” Princeton University Library Chronicle,<\/em> 45:2 (1994), pp. 177\u2013223
\n\u2014 also published separately in a book, The Same Purposeful Instinct: Essays in Honor of William H. Scheide<\/em><\/a>, edited by William P. Stoneman (Princeton, 1994).<\/p>\n

“La Bibbia di Bagnoregio,” in Il Gotico europeo in Italia<\/em>, edited by Valentino Pace and Martina Bagnoli (Naples, 1994), pp. 403\u2013414.<\/p>\n

“The Recalcitrant Wife in the Ramsey Abbey Psalter” in Equally in God’s Image: Women in the Middle Ages<\/em><\/a>, edited by Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S. Wright, and Joan Bechtold (New York: Peter Lang, 1990), pp. 40\u201345.<\/p>\n

“A Book Designed for a Noblewoman: An Illustrated Manuel des P\u00e9ch\u00e9s<\/em>,”\u00a0 in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence <\/em>(Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1988), ed. Linda L. Brownrigg (Los Altos Hills, Anderson\u2013Lovelace:\u00a0 1990), pp. 163\u2013181 and figs. 1\u201312.<\/p>\n

“Anthony Bek’s Copy of Statuta Angliae<\/em>,” England in the Fourteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1985 Harlaxton Symposium<\/em>, ed. W. M. Ormrod (Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell & Brewer:\u00a0 1986), pp. 1\u201327.<\/p>\n

“A Late Thirteenth-Century Psalter-Hours from London,” England in the Thirteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1984 Harlaxton Symposium<\/em>, ed. W. M. Ormrod (Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell & Brewer: 1985), pp. 15\u201330.<\/p>\n

“Noah’s Recalcitrant Wife in the Ramsey Abbey Psalter,” Source<\/em>, 2 (1982), pp. 2\u20135.<\/p>\n

“The Windmill Psalter: the Historiated Letter E of Psalm One,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes,<\/em> 43 (1980), pp. 52\u201367<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Place of Garrett 28<\/a> in Thirteenth-Century Illumination\u201d (Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1973).<\/p>\n

“Additions to the William of Devon Group,” The Art Bulletin<\/em> 54 (1972), pp. 31\u201340<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5. Reviews<\/h4>\n

Review of Michelle Brown, The Holkham Picture Bible<\/em> (2007) in Speculum<\/em>, 85:1 (2010), pp. 147\u2013149<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Review of Kathleen L. Scott, general editor, An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII, c. 1380\u00a0\u2013 c. 1509:\u00a0 The Bodleian Library, Oxford<\/em>, 3 vols., in Studies in Iconography,<\/em> 24 (2003), pp. 265\u2013269.<\/p>\n

Review of Eleanor Simmons, Les Heures de Nuremberg<\/em> (Paris, 1994),\u201d in Studies in Iconography, <\/em>18 (1997), pp. 269\u2013274.<\/p>\n

Review of William M. Voelkle and Roger S. Wieck, The Bernard H. Breslauer Collection of Manuscript Illuminations<\/em> (New York, 1992), in Studies in Iconography,<\/em> 15 (1993), pp. 270\u2013274.<\/p>\n

Review of Lucy F. Sandler, The Psalter of Robert de Lisle<\/em>, Speculum,<\/em> 62 (1987), pp. 985\u2013989<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Review of Margaret M. Manion and Vera F. Vines, Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in Australian Collections<\/em>, in Speculum,<\/em> 62 (1987), pp. 442\u2013443<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Review Article of Lucy F. Sandler, The Peterborough Psalter in Brussels & Other Fenland Manuscripts<\/em>, in The Art Bulletin,<\/em> 64 (1982), pp. 502\u2013508<\/a>.<\/p>\n

6. Abstracts of Papers for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/h3>\n

The Abstracts of the Papers which Adelaide has presented at Symposia and other events of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence are listed among our Abstracts Listed by Year<\/a>.\u00a0 They are, with the Abstracts published in the Programs or Program Booklets for the Events:<\/p>\n

“Liturgical Aspects of Early Books of Hours” (1998 Symposium).\u00a0 Abstract here<\/a><\/p>\n

“Recollections of a Dismembered French Book of Hours of the Early Fourteenth Century”\u00a0(2014 Symposium Program Booklet<\/a>) Booklet and 2 color pls. on the Poster (shown here)<\/p>\n

\"Adelaide<\/a>

At the 2014 Seminar.<\/p><\/div>\n

Examples include her poignant “Recollections of a Dismembered French Book of Hours of the Early Fourteenth Century”, for the 2014 Symposium at Princeton University on “Recollections of the Past: Editorial & Artistic Workshops from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity & Beyond”<\/a>; the Program Booklet with Abstracts can be downloaded freely here<\/a>. Courtesy of Adelaide Bennett, illustrations of pages from that dismembered Book of Hours appear on the Poster for the event.<\/p>\n

\"Poster<\/a><\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Happiness:\u00a0 Meetings Again, Dismembered Manuscripts Included<\/p>\n

P.S. Qualified Happiness, Be It Noted.\u00a0 Wish They Hadn’t Cut Up The Book!<\/p>\n

#OrphansHopingForAForeverHome. Our new hashtag.<\/p>\n

\"Adelaide<\/a>

The New Leaf (22 June 2016)<\/p><\/div>\n

Voyages of Discovery<\/h3>\n

We look forward to hearing about Adelaide’s continuing researches and explorations as well as her cruises to foreign lands.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

We thank the photographer, Mildred Budny, for the images of Adelaide at work and at play.\u00a0 We give thanks to Adelaide Bennett Hagens for her advice, encouragement, support, and friendship throughout the years, both for individual and collective scholarship, and for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence.<\/p>\n

We wish her a long and happy life in retirement with her books, friends, and Herbert.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

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