Professor (on leave 2024-2025)
achimtim@umich.eduOffice Information:
170B Tappan Hall
phone: 734.763.6112
Education/Degree:
PhD University of London (Courtauld Insitute of Art)
Highlighted Work and Publications
Memory and Redemption: Public Monuments and the Making of Late Medieval Landscape
Achim Timmermann
(Architectura Medii Aevi, 8) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), 427 pp.
Erected in large numbers from about 1300 onwards, and featuring increasingly sophisticated designs, wayside crosses and other edifices in the public sphere such as fountains, pillories and boundary markers constituted the largest network of images and monuments in the late medieval world. Not only were they everywhere, they were also seen by nearly everyone, because large sections of the populace were constantly on the move. Carrying an entire spectrum of religious, folkloric and judicial beliefs, these monuments were indeed...
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Real Presence: Sacrament Houses and the Body of Christ, c. 1270-1600
Achim Timmermann
(Architectura Medii Aevi, 4) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009), 442 pp.
This is the first comprehensive book on the architecture and imagery of late medieval sacrament houses, those dazzlingly complex microarchitectural structures designed for the paraliturgical reservation and display of the eucharistic and ‘real present’ body of Christ. The study is embedded in a discussion of sacramental theology and devotion, and traces the development of this genre of furnishing from the introduction of the Corpus Christi feast in 1264 to the first decades of the Counter-Reformation, from the Low Countries...
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Studies in Medieval Art: Liber amicorum Paul Crossley, Vol. I: Architecture, Liturgy, Identity.
edited by Achim Timmermann and Zoë Opačić
(Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), 620 pp.
This collection of essays, written in honour of the eminent architectural historian Paul Crossley, brings together some of the most distinguished scholars of medieval art and architecture from the United States and many parts of Europe. Covering a broad spectrum of topics and approaches including recent discoveries, new interpretations and critical debates, this book and its counterpart Image, Memory and Devotion (also published in the Studies in Gothic Art series) offer a fitting tribute to the exceptional range of Professor Crossley's intellectual ...
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Studies in Medieval Art: Liber amicorum Paul Crossley, Vol. 2: Image, Memory, Devotion
edited by Achim Timmermann and Zoë Opačić
(Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), 620 pp.
This collection of essays, written in honour of the eminent architectural historian Paul Crossley, brings together some of the most distinguished scholars of medieval art and architecture from the United States and many parts of Europe. Covering a broad spectrum of topics and approaches including recent discoveries, new interpretations and critical debates, this book and its counterpart Architecture, Liturgy and Identity (also published in the Studies in Gothic Art series) offer a fitting tribute to the exceptional range of Professor Crossley's intellectual...
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