December 14, 2001

Finding Meaning in the Margins

By PETER MONAGHAN

A prolific medievalist challenges art history's assumptions in a race against time

Michael Camille's work so compels and provokes his colleagues that they are particularly eager for him to complete his umpteen unfinished projects, if humanly possible.

But at his apartment here, Mr. Camille mentions so many books in progress that he would need two or three more careers to get to them all.

"I think that will be a nice book, too," he quietly says of one project, shuffling

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