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Michael Camille

|birth_place=Keighley, Yorkshire, England |death_date= |occupation= |education=Peterhouse, Cambridge (PhD) }} Michael William Camille (6 March 1958 – 29 April 2002) was a British art historian and academic, who was an influential, provocative scholar and historian of medieval art and specialist of the European Middle Ages. He was Mary L. Block Professor at the University of Chicago.

In ''The New York Times'' obituary of Michael Camille, ''The New York Times'' writes, "Mr. Camille was noted for bringing contemporary critical theory and social perspectives to the study of medieval art. Using anthropological, psychoanalytic, semiotic and other approaches, as well as traditional art historical methods, he described the Middle Ages as a time of complex social and political ferment with similarities to modern experience." Camille's new approach marked "a departure from the more popular conception of the period as a remote and static 'age of faith.'''

''The New York Times'' obituary of Michael Camille is titled "Michael Camille, an influential and provocative scholar of medieval art at the University of Chicago, died on April 29. He was 44."

"Camille's first article in the English journal Art History (1985) brought him immediate attention." Camille applied himself to "the traditional field of medieval manuscript illumination," but with new perspectives.

His work is translated into "Spanish, French, Japanese, and Korean," and his book ''Image on the Edge'' "was reviewed by publications ranging from the ''Burlington Magazine'' to the ''Wall Street Journal.''"

The Michael Camille Essay Prize was established in his honor, for his brilliance in art history. Provided by Wikipedia