The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) was founded in 1949 and has committees in twelve countries (Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain with Catalonia, Switzerland, United States of America) and has two associate committees (Portugal and Russia). Nearly one hundred volumes have been published to date.

In Great Britain, the CVMA is a British Academy Research Project hosted by the Courtauld Institute of Art, in the University of London. A Project Committee oversees the programme of publications, which are undertaken by volunteer authors. This website has details of our Books and how to order them.

There is also free access to our digital Picture Archive, containing nearly 18,000 images, most of them in colour. The majority have been provided by the public archive of English Heritage, the National Monuments Record and scanned by HEDS Digitization Services. For further information, or to comment, please contact us.

This site was put together by a team working for the CVMA (GB) at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London, and the work was supported by a research award (2001–2004) from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, and by a special grant from the British Academy (2006).

Chairman

  • Sarah Brown

Project Director

  • Dr Tim Ayers

Project Committee

  • Prof. Jonathan J. G. Alexander
  • Michael Archer, OBE
  • Dr Tim Ayers
  • Prof. Paul Binski
  • Sarah Brown
  • Prof. Paul Crossley
  • Anna Eavis (English Heritage)
  • Dr Penny Hebgin-Barnes
  • Prof. Richard Marks
  • Prof. Christopher Norton
  • David O'Connor

Secretary

  • Heather Gilderdale Scot

Project Editor

  • Dr Joseph Spooner

Database Manager

  • Friederike Hammer

Authors

  • Michael Archer OBE
  • Dr Tim Ayers
  • Kerry Ayre
  • Allan Barton
  • Sarah Brown
  • Anna Eavis
  • Dr Penny Hebgin-Barnes
  • David King
  • Prof. Richard Marks
  • Prof. Nigel Morgan
  • Dr Brian O'Callaghan
  • David O'Connor
  • Brian Sprakes

Conservation Adviser

  • Keith Barley

Technical Team

Database

  • John Bradley
  • Dr Hafed Walda
  • Elliott Hall

Mapping

  • Martyn Jessop
  • Ed Mackenzie

Website

  • Paul Vetch
  • Paul Spence
  • Zaneta Au
  • Jasmine Kelly
  • Dr Eleonora Litta Modignani Picozzi

Digitization Project Steering Committee (2001 - 2004)

  • Tim Ayers
  • Prof. Marilyn Deegan
  • Mick Eadie
  • Michael Evans
  • Shige Iwai
  • Geoff Laycock
  • Phill Purdy
  • Prof. Harold Short
  • Simon Tanner