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Studies in Iconography

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Studies in Iconography (ISSN 0148-1029, e-ISSN 2693-8456) is an annual journal hosted by the Index of Medieval Art and published in partnership with Medieval Institute Publications. It presents innovative work on the meaning of images from the medieval world broadly construed, between the fourth century to the year 1600. Past articles have addressed subjects as diverse as Byzantine fresco programs, Carolingian architectural diagrams, Gothic rent books, Jewish ritual images, and Islamicate stucco ornament. We encourage article submissions that offer interdisciplinary, theoretical, or critical perspectives. Works of both established and emerging scholars are welcome. Reviews of selected books on iconography and art history are included in every volume.

MIP also publishes the journal's associated book series, Studies in Iconography: Themes and Variations.

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Current Issue: Volume 47 (2026)

Articles

The Cross in the Byzantine Arts of War by Heather A. Badamo

Iconographies of Touch: Ivory Pyxides and the Eucharist by Evan Freeman 

Whose Adriatic? Blurring the Boundaries of East and West in the Artistic Production of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Adriatic by Margarita Voulgaropoulou

Rolin's Purse by Diane Wolfthal 

The Bishop's Boundaries: Negotiating Authority in the Quatrefoils of the South Portal of Notre-Dame, Paris by Elvira Miceli 

Sacred Senses: Ears in Italian Religious Imagery between the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Marta Battisti

Review Article

Medieval Maps and the Political Ontology of Antisemitism: Reading Asa Mittman's "Cartographies of Exclusion" by Lisa Lampert-Weissig

Reviews

Review of Andrea Myers Achi, ed., "Afrida and Byzantium," by Joel Walker

Review of Denva Gallant, "Illuminating the 'Vitae patrum': The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy," by Scott B. Montgomery 

Review of Éric Palazzo, "Broder la Splendeur: La théologie chrétienne de lórnement dans l'Antiquité et le haut Moyen Âge," by Christine E. Bachman

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Editors

  • Diliana Angelova, University of California - Berkeley
  • Pamela A. Patton, Princeton University

Book Review Editor

  • Kirk Ambrose, University of Colorado

Editorial Advisory Board

  • Adam Cohen, University of Toronto
  • Blake de Maria, Santa Clara University
  • Martha Easton, St. Joseph’s University
  • Maria Evangelatou, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • María Judith Feliciano, Independent Scholar and Director, “Medieval Textiles in Iberia and the Mediterranean”
  • Beatrice Kitzinger, Princeton University
  • Alka Patel, University of California, Irvine
  • Debra Higgs Strickland, University of Glasgow
  • Thelma Thomas, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Please see submission guidelines given at the journal's ScholarWorks page.

See the contents of previous volumes published by Medieval Institute Publications.

Studies in Iconography is published annually in print and digital formats. Please note that due to the image-heavy nature of this publication, and the need for certain permissions to enable volumes to be online, only volume 42 and on will be available in digital form. To order print copies of earlier volumes, please contact us.

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