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.
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."
[3] The Michael Camille Essay Prize was established in his honor, for his brilliance in art history.
[7] Immediately after obtaining his doctorate he began work at the University of Chicago, where he remained for the rest of his short career.