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Zachary Stewart

Associate Professor; James M. Singleton IV ’66, FAIA, Endowed Professor

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  • Department of Architecture
  • Center for Heritage Conservation

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Biography

Zachary Stewart is an architectural historian with dual training in the fields of architecture and art history. He specializes in the material culture of medieval Europe. His research focuses on the buildings, cities, and landscapes of medieval Britain.

Stewart’s current book project, Collaborative Gothic: Building the Parish Church in Late Medieval England, investigates the parish church as a vehicle for innovative material production during the two centuries between the Black Death and the Reformation. His research on this and numerous other aspects of medieval building culture has appeared in The Journal of Architectural Education, Speculum, Different Visions, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and The Antiquaries Journal as well as in numerous edited collections.

Stewart is co-editor, with Amy E. Gillette, of The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: Studies of a Medieval Monument over Four Centuries (Brill, 2023) – an interdisciplinary investigation of one of the most extraordinary ritual furnishings to have been created for a parochial context in medieval Britain. Inspired by the rediscovery of four attributable panels at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the book offers a trans-temporal account of the canopy’s initial creation and subsequent use, mutilation, and modification. Written by a team of a dozen scholars in art/architectural history, art conservation, heritage documentation, literary studies, and museum studies, it explores the installation’s multiple artistic, ritual, and cultural contexts, from late medieval and early modern Europe to modern-day North America.

Stewart has received fellowships, grants, and honors from the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, the American Philosophical Society, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative, and the Arts and Humanities Fellows Program at Texas A&M. In 2021–2022 he was a Senior Fellow in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 2022 his article, “One and Many: Parish Church Planning in Late Medieval England” (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 79, no. 3 [2020], 264–85), received the Founders’ Award from the Society of Architectural Historians.

Education

Ph.D.

Art History and Archaeology
Columbia University
2015

M.A.

History of Art
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
2008

B.Arch.

Architecture and Medieval Studies
University of Notre Dame
2007

Scholarly Interests

Art and architectural history; spatial theory; architectural documentation; architectural representation; historiography; medieval studies; digital humanities

Courses

ARCH 250

Survey of World Architecture History II

3 Credit Hours
ARCH 437

The Gothic Cathedral

3 Credit Hours
ARCH 644

Seminar in Art and Architectural History: The Origins of Architectural Representation

3 Credit Hours
ARCH 644

Seminar in Art and Architectural History: Race, Representation, and the Architectural History Survey

3 Credit Hours
ARCH 644

Seminar in Art and Architectural History: The Gothic Cathedral

3 Credit Hours
ARCH 644

Seminar in Art and Architectural History: The Architect in Historical Perspective

3 Credit Hours

Staff Publications

  • 2024 Zachary Stewart, “A Late Medieval Inventory from St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich (BL Stowe MS 871): Register, Record, Teaching Resource,” in Collecting, Curating, Assembling: New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages, ed. Emily N. Savage (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2024), 211–28. View
  • 2023 Amy E. Gillette and Zachary Stewart, eds., The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: Studies of a Medieval Monument over Four Centuries, Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 20 (Leiden: Brill, 2023). View
  • 2023 Amy E. Gillette and Zachary Stewart, “Introduction: A Meditation on the Art-Historical Fragment” in The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: Studies of a Medieval Monument over Four Centuries, ed. Amy E. Gillette and Zachary Stewart (Leiden: Brill, 2023), 1–8. View
  • 2023 Zachary Stewart, “A ‘Parish Church Par Excellence’: The Architecture and Arts of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, from the Conquest to the Reformation,” in The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: Studies of a Medieval Monument over Four Centuries, ed. Amy E. Gillette and Zachary Stewart (Leiden: Brill, 2023), 11–79. View
  • 2023 Zachary Stewart, “Towards a Reconstruction of the Mancroft Font Canopy,” in The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: Studies of a Medieval Monument over Four Centuries, ed. Amy E. Gillette and Zachary Stewart (Leiden: Brill, 2023), 191–232. View
  • 2023 Zachary Stewart, “The Plague, the Parish, and the Perpendicular Style: Theories of Change in Late Medieval English Architecture from John Aubrey to John Harvey,” in Modernity and Lateness in Medieval Architecture, ed. Alice Isabella Sullivan and Kyle G. Sweeney (Leiden: Brill, 2023). View
  • 2022 Zachary Stewart, “An Architecture of Incumbency? Burwell and Beyond,” in Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology at Cambridge: College, Church and City, ed. Gabriel Byng and Helen Lunnon, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 44 (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022), 171–87. View
  • 2022 Zachary Stewart, “Review. Tim Ayers and Maureen Jurkowski, The Fabric Accounts of St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster, 1292–1396,” Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, vol. 97, no. 2 (2022), 472–74. View
  • 2021 Zachary Stewart, “Brotherly Rivals: Templars, Hospitallers, and the Architectural Expansion of the Temple Church in London,” The Antiquaries Journal, vol. 101 (2021), 235–68. View
  • 2021 Zachary Stewart, “Models, Copies, and Mendicants: The Origins of the Late Medieval English Parish Church in Historiographical Perspective,” in Towards an Art History of the Parish Church, 1200–1399, ed. Meg Bernstein (London: Courtauld Books Online, 2021). View
  • 2021 Zachary Stewart, “Review. Stephen Murray, Notre-Dame of Amiens: Life of the Gothic Cathedral,” Journal of the British Archaeological Association, vol. 174 (2021), 198–200. View
  • 2020 Zachary Stewart, “Plate 2.27: Hampton Court Palace,” in Vetusta Monumenta, ed. Noah Heringman, Crystal B. Lake, and Katharina Boehm (online edition published under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Society of Antiquaries of London, 2020). View
  • 2020 Zachary Stewart, “One and Many: Parish Church Planning in Late Medieval England,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 79, no. 3 (2020), 264–85. View
  • 2020 Zachary Stewart, “Other Spaces: Medieval Architectural History between Theory and Practice,” in “Are We Post-Theoretical?” ed. Jennifer Borland and Nancy Thompson, special issue, Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, vol. 6 (2020). View
  • 2019 Zachary Stewart, “A Lesson in Patronage: King Henry III, the Knights Templar, and a Royal Mausoleum at the Temple Church in London,” Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, vol. 94, no. 2 (2019), 334–84. View
  • 2018 Zachary Stewart, “Tending the Architectural Corpus: A Prehistory,” in “Preserve,” ed. Tricia Stuth and Ted Shelton, special issue, Journal of Architectural Education, vol. 72, no. 2 (2018), 290–93. View