Issues of Studies in Iconography published by Medieval Institute Publications at Western Michigan University are available for purchase by contacting our distributor, ISD. Contents of published issues are as follows.
Past Volumes (Table of Contents)
Articles
"Monastic Reform and Romanesque Figurative Capitals at Saint-Bénigne in Dijon" by Carolyn Marino Malone
"Identity, Indeterminacy, and Audience: The Semantics of Portraiture in the De Brailes Hours" by Maeve K. Doyle
"Margaret of York as the Two Marys: Flexible Iconography in the Frontispiece of 'Le Dyalogue de la duchesse de Bourgogne à Jésus Christ'" by Erica O'Brien
"The Dominican High Altar in Bern and the Failure of Iconography" by Tamara Golan
"Judith, Salome, and Allegories of Tyranny in the Work of Lucas Cranach the Elder" by Victoria S. Reed
"Describing Giorgione's 'Tempest': Iconography, Genre, Interpretation" by Monika Schmitter
Book Reviews
"Masters of Melancholy: A Review Essay" by Mitchell Merback
Romanesque Tomb Effigies: Death and Redemption in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200 by Shirin Fozi
Review by Thomas Dale
Sephardic Book Art of the 15th Century edited by Luís U. Afonso and Tiago Moita
Review by Marc Michael Epstein
Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture by Jessica Barker
Review by Joan A. Holladay
Insular Iconographies: Essays in Honour of Jane Hawkes edited by Meg Boulton and Michael D. J. Bintley
Review by Caitlin Hutchison
Learning through Images in the Italian Renaissance: Illustrated Manuscripts and Education in Quattrocento Forence by Federico Botana
Review by Rheagan Eric Martin
Genealogy and the Politics of Representation in the High and Late Middle Ages by Joan A. Holladay
Review by Elizabeth J. Moodey
Articles
"A Reconsideration of the Communion of the Apostles in Byzantine Art" by Vaeileios Marinis
"Artists and Autonomy: Written Instructions and Preliminary Drawings for the Illuminator in the Huntington Library 'Legenda aurea' (HM 3027)" by Martha Eason
"'A Lanterne of Lyght to the People': English Narrative Alabaster Images of John the Baptist in Their Visual, Religious, and Social Contexts" by Kathryn A. Smith
"Metapainting in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium and Italy: Performing Devotion Through Time and Space" by Giulia Puma and Maria Alessia Rossi
"Frame for a Sultan" by Rossitza B. Schroeder
"The Implicating Gaze in Bronzino's 'Cosimo I de' Medici as Orpheus' and the Intellectual Culture of the Accademia Fiorentina" by Christine Zappella
Book Reviews
Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts edited by Fiona Griffiths and Kathryn Starkey
Review by Martina Bagnoli
Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World edited by Elizabeth Morrison
Review by Irène Fabry-Tehranchi
A Soul's Journey: Franciscan Art, Theology, and Devotion in the "Supplicationes variae" by Rebecca W. Corrie
Review by Amy Neff
Passion Relics and the Medieval Imagination: Art, Architecture, and Society by Cynthia Hahn
Review by Erik Inglis
The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403–1476 by Sonja Drimmer
Review by William Kuskin
English Gothic Misericord Carvings: History from the Bottom Up by Betsy Chunko-Dominquez
Review by Christel Theunissen
Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France: The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie of Brabant (1260–1321) by Tracy Chapman Hamilton
Review by Anna Russakoff
The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt edited by Elizabeth S. Bolman
Review by Jesper Blid
Articles
"Signs of the City: Seigniorial Power and Vernacular Visual Culture in Two Northern French Rent-Books" by Margaret Goehring
"The Rhetoric of Aphrodite in the Byzantine Illuminated Book" by Mati Meyer
"Reading with the Evangelists: Portrait, Gesture, and Interpretation in the Byzantine Gospel Book" by Justin Wilson
"'What is That to Us?': The Eucharistic Liturgy and the Enemies of Christ in the Beam of the Passion" by David M. Freidenreich and Véronique Plesch
"Text, textile, Blood: Mary under the Cross in an Illuminated 'Meditationes Vitae Christi' (Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 410)" by Renana Bartal
"St. Roch and the Angel in Renaissance Art" by Louise Marshall
Book Reviews
Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders by Sherry C. M. Lindquist and Asa Simon Mittman
Review by Thomas E. A. Dale
The Cistercian Reform and the Art of the Book in Twelfth-Century France by Diane J. Reilly
Review by James D'Emilio
Les modèles dans l'art du Moyen Âge (XIIe-XVe siècles). Actes du colloque. Modèles supposés, modèles repérés: leurs usages dans l'art gothique, Université de Genève (3–5 November 2016) = Models in the Art of the Middle Ages (12th–15th Centuries). Conference Proceedings. Supposed Models, Identified Models: Their Uses in Gothic Art, University of Geneva (3–5 November 2016) edited by Denise Borlée and Laurence Terrier Aliferis
Review by Sonja Drimmer
Raymond Klibansky and the Warburg Library Network: Intellectual Peregrinations from Hamburg to London and Montreal edited by Philippe Despoix and Jillian Tomm
Review by Karen Lang
An Insular Odyssey: Manuscript Culture in Early Christian Ireland and Beyond edited by Rachel Moss, Felicity O'Mahoney, and Jane Maxwell
Review by Carol Neuman de Vegvar
Gender, Piety, and Production in Fourteenth-Century English Apocalypse Manuscripts by Renana Bartal
Review by Alexa Sand
Apocalypse Illuminated: The Visual Exegesis of Revelation in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts by Richard K. Emmerson
Review by Alexa Sand
Painting the Page in the Age of Print edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Robert Suckale, and Gude Suckale-Redlefsen
Review by Larry Silver and Debra Cashion
Epigraphy in an Intermedial edited by Alessia Bauer, Elise Kleivane, and Terje Spurkland
Review by Nancy L. Wicker
Notes on Contributors
Articles
"Pictures with Words: Reading the Apse Mosaic of S. Agnese f.l.m. (Rome)" by Dennis Trout
"Pictorial Typology and the Miniatures of the Peterborough Psalter in Brussels" by Lucy Freeman Sandler
"Weaving on the Wall: Architecture and Textiles at the Monastery of Las Huelgas in Burgos" by Patricia Blessing
"Mona Lisa's Smile: Interpreting Emotion in Renaissance Female Portraits" by Theresa Flanigan
"Charity as Act and Allegory in Venetian Art" by Meryl Bailey
Book Reviews
The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons, published simultaneously in Italy as Alle origini delle icone by Thomas Mathews with Norman E. Muller
Review by Diliana Angelova
Images du Christ: Des catacombes aux lendemains de l'iconoclasme by Jean Michel Spieser
Review by Diliana Angelova
Theophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art by Heidi C. Gearhart
Review by Vincent Debiais
The Jewish Bible: A Material History by David Stern
Review by Marc Michael Epstein
Albrecht Dürer and the Epistolary Mode of Address by Shira Brisman
Review Hannah J. Friedman
Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500–1500 edited by Renana Bartal, Neta Bodner, and Bianca Kühnel
Review by Maria Georgopoulou
Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Medieval Byzantium: Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography by Sharon E. J. Gerstel
Review by Maria Georgopoulou
The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography edited by Colum Hourihane
Review by Gerald B. Guest
Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art by Benjamin Anderson
Review by Danielle E. Joyner
A Saving Science: Capturing the Heavens in Carolingian Manuscripts by Eric M. Ramírez-Weaver
Review by Danielle E. Joyner
The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art: Materials, Power and Manipulation edited by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, and Zuzanna Sarnecka
Review by Sherry Lindquist
Notes on Contributors
Articles
"A Monument of His Own? An Iconographic Study of the Wall Paintings of the Holy Trinity Parekklesion at the Monastery of St. John Chrysostom, Koutsovendis (Cyprus)" by Maria G. Parani
"Patrons and Artists of the Sculptural Program of the Church of Saint-André-la-Bas: Meanings and Identities" by Nurith Kenaan-Kedar (1938–2015) and Gil Fishhof
"Visualizing Dynastic Desire: The Twelfth-Century Gospel Book of Henry and Matilda" by Jitske Jasperse
"Judgment, Work, and Social Change: Reading a New Spirituality in the Sculpted Laborers of Santiago de Carrión de los Condes" by Elizabeth Lastra
"Manipulating the Cup of Blessing: Gendered Reading of Ritual Images in European-Hebrew Books" by Sarit Shalev-Eyni
Book Reviews
Vigilant Powers: Three Churches of Early Medieval Armenia by Christina Maranci
Review by Benjamin Anderson
The Monk's Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a Prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim edited by David Stern, Christoph Markschies, and Sarit Shalev-Eyni
Review by Aleksandra Bunčić
The Brussels Tristan Tapestries. Myth Regenrated in Wool, Silk and Precious Threads by Jaqueline Thibault Schaefer
Review by Michael Curschmann
Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe edited by J. R. Mulryne with Maria Ines Aliverti and Anna Maria Testaverde
Review by Tracey Hill
French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater by Laura Weigert
Review by Jesse Hurlbut
Images et ornements autour des ordres militaires au Moyen Age. Culture visuelle et culte des saints (France, Espagne du Nord, Italie) edited by Damien Carraz and Esther Dehoux
Review by Eric Palazzo
Art, Controversy, and the Jesuits: The Imago Primi Saeculi (1640) edited by John W. O'Malley
Review by Larry Silver
Sign and Design: Script as Image in Cross-Cultural Perspective (300–1600 CE) edited by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak and Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Review by Benjamin C. Tilghman
The Traditio Legis: Anatomy of an Image by Robert Couzin
Review by Dennis Trout
The Emblem in Early Modern Europe: Contributions to the Theory of the Emblem by Peter M. Daly
Review by Tianna Helena Uchacz
Notes on Contributors
Articles
"Eyes Dim with Age at Vézelay" by Kirk Ambrose
"Syncretism and Segregation in Early Christian Art" by Robert Couzin
"A Savin Bush in the Cloister: Art and Nature in the Plan of St. Gall" by Danielle B. Joyner
"The Beautiful Lucifer as an Object of Aesthetic Contemplation in the Central Middle Ages" by Gerald B. Guest
"The Stone and the Dream: On Piero della Francesca's 'Resurrection'" by Cyril Gerbron
"Networks of Knowledge: Inventing 'Theology' in the Stanza della Segnatura" by Kim Butler Wingfield
Book Reviews
L'Iconographie du Chevalier errant de Thomas de Saluces by Florence Bouchet
Review by Grace Morgan Armstrong
Working Drawings of Icon Painters After the Fall of Constantinople: The Andreas Xyngopoulos Portfolio at the Benaki Museum by Maria Vassilaki
Review by Annemarie Weyl Carr
Illuminators and Patrons in the Fourteenth-Century England: The Psalter and Hours of Humphrey de Bohun and the Manuscripts of the Bohun Family by Lucy Freeman Sandler
Review by Claire Donovan
The Tree: Symbol, Allegory, and Mnemonic Device in Medieval Art and Thought edited by Pippa Salonius and Andrea Worm
Review by Gerald B. Guest
Death, Torture, and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300–1650 edited by John R. Decker and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives
Review by Jack Hartnell
Ferdinandus Dei gracia Rex Aragonum. La efigie de Fernando II el Católico en la iconografía medieval and Effigies Regis Aragonum. La imagen figurativa del rey de Aragón en la Edad Media by Marta Serrano Coll
Review by Nicola Jennings
In a New Light: Giovanni Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert" edited by Susannah Rutherglen and Charlotte Hale
Review by Daniel Wallace Maze
The Ferrel–Vogüé Machaut Manuscript Facsimile, introduction by Lawrence Earp
Review by Deborah McGrady
Images-within-Images in Italian Painting (1250–1350): Reality and Reflexivity by Péter Bokody
Review by Julia I. Miller
Die mittelalterlichen Olifante by Avinoam Shalem
Review by Lawrence Nees
Visual Vultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe edited by Timothy McCall, Sean Roberts, and Giancarlo Fiorenza
Review by Ingrid D. Rowland
Notes on Contributors
Articles
"Out of Egypt: Inventing the Black Madonna of Le Puy in Image and Text" by Elisa A. Foster
"Cartographic Imaginings: Mapping Anglo-Scottish Existence in the Late Middle Ages" by Andrew W. Klein
"Piety, Penance, and the Passion of Christ: The Iconographic Program of the Franciscan Friary at Ennis, Ireland" by Malgorzata Krasnodębska-D'Aughton
"Christmas Lessons in Word and Image in the Douce Homilary" by Judith Oliver
"Portraiture, Politics, and Piety: The Royal Patronage of Gautier de Coinci's 'Miracles de Nostre Dame' (Paris, BnF, MS nouv. acqu. fr. 24541)" by Anna Russakoff
"Seeing Christ: The Groß St. Martin Evangelistary and Monastic Image-Making in Thirteenth-Century Cologne" by Adam R. Stead
Book Reviews
The Many Faces of Christ: Portraying the Holy in the Easy and West, 300 to 1300 by Michele Bacci
Review by Leslie Brubaker
The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity by Zainab Bahrani
Review by Marian H. Feldman
The Riddle of the Image: The Secret Science of Medieval Art by Spike Bucklow
Review by Alison Stones
Un Medioevo in lungo e in largo. Da Bisanzio all'occidente (VI–XVI secolo). Studi per Valentino Pace edited by Vittoria Camelliti and Allessia Trivellone
Review by Nino Zchomelidse
The Sensuous in the Counter-Reformation Church edited by Marcia B. Hall and Tracy E. Cooper
Review by Benjamin Paul
Thèmes religieux et thèmes profanes dans l'image médiévale: tranferts, empprunts, oppositions edited by Christian Heck
Review by Kirk Ambrose
Picturing the "Pregnant" Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430–1550: Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-Saint by Penny Howell Jolly
Review by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Wounds in the Middle Ages (The History of Medicine in Context Series) edited by Anne Kirkham and Cordelia Warr
Review by Jennifer Borland
An Allegory of Divine Love: The Netherlandish Blockbook Canticum Canticorum by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
Review by Donald F. Duclow
Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels. Cumulative Index by Jerome Nadal, S. J.
Review by Larry Silver
Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy: The Art and Culture of Conspicuous Commemoration by Minou Schraven
Review by Steven F. Ostrow
Das Bodenmosaik der Kathedrale von Otranto (1163–1165): Normannische Herrscherideologie als Endzeitvision by Christine Ungruh
Review by Beat Brenk
Art, Ritual and Civic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy by Nino Zchomelidse
Review by Dorothy F. Glass
Notes on Contributors
Articles
"What a Medieval Diagram Shows: A Case Study of 'Computus'" by Faith Wallis
"The Physical and the Spiritual Universe: 'Infernus' and Paradise in Medieval Cosmography and Its Visual Representations (Seventh–Fourteenth Century)" by Barbara Obrist
"Milk as Templar Apologetics in the St. Bernard of Clairvaux Altarpiece from Majorca" by Doron Bauer
Review Articles
"The State of Early Christian Iconography in the Twenty-First Century" by Bente Kiilerich
"Medieval Irish Art History" by Dorothy H. Verkerk
"Witnessing Iconoclasm: Two Recent Books" by Karl F. Morrison
Reviews
Religious Poverty, Visual Riches, Art in the Dominican Churches of Central Italy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by Joanna Cannon
Review by Serena Romano
The Social Life of Illumination: Manuscripts, Images, and Communities in the Late Middle Ages edited by Joyce Coleman, Mark Cruse, and Kathryn A. Smith
Review by Gerald B. Guest
The Making of Assisi: The Pope, the Franciscans and the Painting of the Basilica by Donal Cooper and Janet Robson
Review by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
Giotto und die Croci Dipinte des Trecento: Studien zu Typus, Genese und Rezeption mit einem Katalog der monumentalen Tafelkreuze des Trecento (ca. 1290–ca. 1400) by Marcello Gaeta
Review by Donal Cooper
Illuminating in Micrography: The Catalan Micrography Mahzor MS Heb 8° 6527 in the National Library of Israel by Dalia-Ruth Halperin
Review by Marc Michael Epstein
Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350–1490 by Diana Hiller
Review by Anne Derbes
The World of Kosmas, Illustrated Byzantine Codices of the Christian Topography by Maja Kominko
Review by Benjamin Anderson
Images of Cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine Art, God's Blueprint of Creation by Shulamith Laderman
Review by Benjamin Anderson
Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a "Vows of a Peacock" Manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24). With a Complete Concordance and Catalogue of Peacock Manuscripts by Domenic Leo
Review by Martine Meuwese
Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe by Angeliki Lymberopoulou and Rembrandt Duits
Review by Maria Georgopoulou
Reden von der Minne. Untersuchungen zu Spielformen literarischer Bildung zwischen verbaler und visueller Vergegenwärtigung anhand von Minnereden und Minnebildern des deutschsprachigen Spätmittelalters by Stefan Matter
Review by Michael Curschmann
Artus in Gold. Der Erec Zyklus auf dem Krakauer Kronenkreuz by Joanna Mühlemann
Review by Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen
A Courtier's Mirror: Cultivating Elite Identity in Thomasin von Zerclaere's "Welscher Gast" by Kathryn Starkey
Review by James Rushing
St. Catherine of Alexandria in Renaissance Roman Art by Cynthia Stollhans
Review by Carol M. Richardson
Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile: The Virgin, Christ, Devotions, and Images in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries by Cynthia Robinson
Review by Teofilo F. Ruiz
Asinou across Time: Studies in the Architecture and Murals of the Panagia Phorbiotissa, Cyprus edited by Annemarie Weyle Carr and Andréas Nicolaïdès
Review by Maria G. Parani
Notes on Contributors
Articles
“The Illustration and Text on the Book of Kells, Folio 114rv.” by Daniel McCarthy
“A Maniera greca: Content, Context, and Transformation of a Term” by Anastasia Drandaki
“Veneto-Byzantine ‘Hybrids’: Towards a Reassessment” by Michelle Bacci
“Out of Sight: Painting and Perception in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium” by Charles Barber
“Charlemagne’s Sin, the Last Judgment, and the New Theology of Penance at Chartres” by Jennifer M. Feltman
“The Sarajevo Haggadah Creation Cycle and the Nahmanides School of Theosophical-Kabbalah” by Dalia-Ruth Halperin
“The Dead Christ on the Cross in Ethiopian Art: Notes on the Iconography of the Crucifixion in Twelfth- to Fifteenth-Century Ethiopia” by Jacopo Gnisci
Book Reviews
Illuminating the “Roman d’Alexandre,” Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264: The Manuscript as Monument by Mark Cruse
Review by Elizabeth Moore Hunt
Ambiguous Locks: An Iconology of Hair in Medieval Art and Literature by Roberta Milliken
Review by Karen Winstead
The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art edited by Sherry C. M. Lindquist
Review by Richard A. Leson
Le “Ci nous dit”: L’Image médiévale et la culture des laïcs au XIVe siècle; Les enluminures du manuscript de Chantilly by Christian Heck
Review by Mark Cruse
A Mahzor from Worms: Art and Religion in a Medieval Jewish Community by Katrin Kogman-Appel
Review by Evelyn M. Cohen
Sacral Geographies, Saints, Shrines and Territory in Medieval Ireland by Karen Eileen Overbey
Review by Paul Mullarkey
The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral by Meredith Parsons Lillich
Review by Sarah Brown
The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture by Charles Dempsey
Review by Manu Radhakrishnan
La Vierge au manteau du Puy-en-Velay: Un chef-d’oeuvre méconnu du gothique international (vers 1400–1410) by Hélène Millet and Claudia Rabel
Review by Elina Gertsman
French Books of oursHours: Stories and the Construction of the Self in Late Medieval England Virginia Reinburg
Review by Margaret M. Manion
The Taymouth Hours: Stories and the Construction of the Self in Late Medieval England by Kathryn A. Smith
Review by Margaret M. Manion
The Embodied Icon: Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental Power in Byzantium by Warren T. Woodfin
Review by Henry Schilb
Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture edited by Therese Martin
Review by Fiona Griffiths
Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral: Royalty and Ritual in Thirteenth-Century France by Donna Sadler
Review by Meredith Cohen
Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson
Review by Don C. Skemer
Mary Magdalene: Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque edited by Michelle A. Erhardt and Amy M. Morris
Review by Penny Howell Jolly
Father and Son: Nicola and Giovanni Pisano by Max Seidel
Review by Anita Moskowitz
The Emperor and The World: Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power, Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries C.E. by Alicia Walker
Review by Christina Maranci
Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain by Pamela A. Patton
Review by Rose Walker
Imagining the Human Condition in Medieval Rome: The Cistercian Fresco Cycle at Abbazia delle Tre Fontane by Kristin B. Aavitsland
Review by Serena Romano
Strange Beauty: Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400-circa 1204 by Cynthia Hahn
Review by Carolyn M. Carty
Nectar and Illusion: Nature in Byzantine Art and Literature by Henry Maguire
Review by Charles Barber
Goldene Pracht: Mittelalterliche Schatzkunst in Westfalen edited by Holger Kempkens, Hartmut Krohn, et al.,
Review by Anne Heath
Gods and Settlers: The Iconography of Norse Mythology in Anglo-Scandanavian Sculpture by Lilla Kopár
Review by Amy R. Miller
Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena edited by Timothy B. Smith and Judith B. Steinhoff
Review by Matthew G. Shoaf
L’iconographie de la Bible Historiale by Eléonore Fournié
Review by Alison Stones
L’allégorie dans l’art du Moyen Âge: Formes et fonctions; Héritages, creations, mutations edited by Christian Heck
Review by Cordelia Warr
The Works of Mercy in Italian Medieval Art (c. 1050–c. 1400) by Federico Botana
Review by Ivan Gerat
Palace of the Mind: The Cloister of Silos and Spanish Sculpture of the Twelfth Century by Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo
Review by Jennifer S. Alexander
Rosenkränze und Seelengärten: Bildung und Frömmigkeit in niedersächsischen Frauenklöstern edited by Britta-Juliane Kruse
Review by Corine Schleif
Articles
“Emblematic Narratives in the Sancta Sanctorum” by Marius Bratsberg Hauknes
“Sicilian Ambitions Renewed: Illuminated Manuscripts and Crusading Iconography” by Rebecca W. Corrie
“Work and Prayer in the Fiery Furnace: The Three Hebrews on the Censer of Reiner in Lille and a Case for Artistic Labor” by Heidi C. Gearhart
“’Quid milites pugnantes’? An Early Representation of Chanson de Geste on the Romanesque Frieze of Angoulême Cathedral Reexamined” by Timothy J. Hunter
“Giving ‘the Middle Ages’ a Bad Name: Blood Punishments in the Sachsenspiegel and Town Lawbooks” by Madeline H. Caviness
Book Reviews
Jews among Christians: Hebrew Book Illumination from Lake Constanceby Sarit Shalev-Eyni
Review by William Chester Jordan
English Medieval Misericords: The Margins of Meaning by Paul Hardwick
Review by Mailan S. Doquang
The Playful Middle Ages: Meanings of Play and Plays of Meaning; Essays in Memory of Elaine C. Block edited by Paul Harwick
Review by Mailan S. Doquang
An Obscure Portrait: Imaging Women’s Reality in Byzantine Art by Mati Meyer
Review by Ioli Kalavrezou
The Apse, the Image and the Icon: An Historical Perspective of the Apse as a Space for Images by Beat Brenk
Review by Charles Barber
The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative and Religious Imagination by Marc Michael Epstein
Review by Ilana Tahan
The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Text and Images edited by Leslie Brubaker and Mary B. Cunningham,
Review by Maria Vassilaki
Virtual Pilgrimages in the Convent: Imagining Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages by Kathryn M. Rudy
Review by Henry Luttikhuizen
Les saints ermites et moines dans la peinture murale byzantine by Svetlana Tomeković
Review by Henry Maguire
Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England by Aden Kumler
Review by Kathryn Smith
Die Vorhalle als Paradies: Ikonographische Studien zur Bauskulptur der ehemaligen Frauenstiftskirche in Andlau by Christian Forster
Review by Michael Curschmann
Approaching the Holy Mountain: Art and Liturgy at St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai edited by Sharon E. J. Gerstel and Robert S. Nelson
Review by Antony Eastmond
Jean Fouquet and the Invention of France: Art and Nation after the Hundred Years War by Erik Inglis
Review by Sherry C. M. Lindquist
Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture: The Artistic Patronage of Otto III and Henry II by Eliza Garrison
Review by Henry Mayr-Harting
Introduction by Nina Rowe
Articles
Form
“Color” by Heather Pulliam
“Likeness” by Stephen Perkinson
“Margin” by Kathryn A. Smith
Experience
“Narrative” by Anne F. Harris
“Performance” by Laura Weigert
“Reception” by David S. Areford
“Visuality” by Alexa Sand
Identity
“Feminism” by Martha Easton
“Gender” by Sherry C. M. Lindquist
“Other” by Nina Rowe
“Postcolonial” by Karen Eileen Overbey
“Queer” by Karl Whittington
Society
“Gift” by Cecily J. Hilsdale
“Globalism” by Alicia Walker
“Influence” by Kirk Ambrose
“Patronage” by Holly Flora
“Space” by Gerald B. Guest
Categorization
“Gothic” by Matthew M. Reeve
“Medievalism” by William J. Diebold
“Romanesque” by Marian Bleeke
Book Reviews
Italian Medieval Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters by Lisbeth Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Jack Soultanian, with contributions by Richard Y. Tayar
Review by Kirk Ambrose
The Devout Belief of the Imagination: The Paris Meditationes Vitae Christi and Female Franciscan Spirituality in Trecento Italy by Holly Flora
Review by Brendan Cassidy
The Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium, Maria Vassilaki, ed. The Hand of Angelos: An Icon Painter in Venetian Crete by Bissera Pentcheva
Review by Rebecca W. Corrie
Medieval Ivory Carvings: Early Christian to Romanesque by Paul Williamson
Review by William J. Diebold
In and Out of the Marital Bed: Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe by Diane Wolfthal
Review by Rachel Dressler
The Sculpture of Reform in Northern Italy ca 1095–1130, History and Patronage of Romanesque Facades by Dorothy F. Glass
Review by Louis I. Hamilton
The Anjou Bible: A Royal Manuscript Revealed; Naples 1340 edited by Lieve Watteeuw and Jan Van der Stock
Review by C. M. Kauffmann
The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Images, Text, Performance by Elina Gertsman
Review by Nigel F. Palmer
The Queen’s Library: Image-Making at the Court of Anne of Brittany, 1477–1514 by Cynthia J. Brown
Review by Pamela Sheingorn
Brueghel’s Heavy Dancers: Transgressive Clothing, Class and Culture in the Late Middle Ages by John Block Friedman
Review by Margaret A. Sullivan
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Articles
“Antichrist and the Jews in Medieval Art and Protestant Propaganda” by Debra Higgs Strickland
“Image as Word: Visual Openings, Verbal Imaginings” by Elina Gertsman
“Pocket Crucifixions: Jesus, Jews, and Ownership in Fourteenth-Century Ivories” by Nina Rowe
“Remembering Floire et Blancheflor: Gothic Secular Ivories and the Arts of Memory” by Paula Mae Carns
“Heraldry and Identity in the Psalter-Hours of Jeanne of Flanders (Manchester, John Rylands Library, MS Lat. 117)” by Richard A. Leson
Book Reviews
The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations edited byMartin K. Foys, Karen Eileen Overby, and Dan Terkla
Review by Herbert R. Broderick
The Painter Angelos and Icon-Painting in Venetian Crete by Maria Vassilaki
Review by Maria Evangelatou
Giotto’s O: Narrative, Figuration, and Pictorial Ingenuity in the Arena Chapel. Anne Derbes and Mark Sandona, The Userer’s Heart: Giotto, Enrico Scrovegni, and the Arena Chapel in Padua. Laura Jacobus, Giotto and the Arena Chapel: Art, Architecture and Experience by Andrew Ladis
Review by Holly Flora
Les Marges à drolleries des manuscrits gothiques (1250–1350) by Jean Wirth
Review by Elizabeth Moore Hunt
Beth Williamson, The Madonna of Humility: Development, Dissemination & Reception, c. 1340–1400 by Beth Williamson
Review by M. A. Michael
Ecce Fides: Die Statue von Conques, Götzendienst und Bildkultur im Westen by Beate Fricke
Review by Pamela Sheingorn
Das Ich im Bild: Die Figur des Autors in volkssprachigen Bilderhandschriften des 13. Bis 16 Jahrhunderts by Ursula Peters
Review by Alison Stones
Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts of the Book of Job: A Preliminary Study of the Miniature Illustrations, Its Origin and Development. Athens: Brepols, 2009. Pp. 432; 417 color and black-and-white illus.; 2 appendices Stella Papadaki-Oekland
Review by Leong Seow
Notes on Contributors
Articles
“Kissing the Virgin’s Foot: Adoratio before the Madonna and Child Enacted, Depicted, Imagined” by Joanna Cannon
“Illustrating the Gospel of John: The Exegesis of John Chrysostom and Images of the Ancient of Days in Eleventh-Century Byzantine Manuscripts” by Gretchen Kreahling McKay
“Representing Devotional Economy: Agricultural and Liturgical Labor in the Luttrell Psalter” by Ellen K. Rentz
“The Wise and Foolish Magdalene, the Good Widow, and Rogier van der Weyden’s Braqye Triptych” review by Penny Howell Jolly
“Dual Messages of Power on the Façade of the Casa Montejo, Mérida, Yucatán” by Linda K. Williams
Book Reviews
L’artista a Bisanzio e nel mondo Cristiano-orientale edited by Michele Bacci
Review by Kathleen A. Corrigan
Dynamic Splendor: The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Eufrasius at Poreč by Ann Terry and Henry Maguire
Review by Deborah M. Deliyannis
Singing with Angels: Liturgy, Music, and Art in the Gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock by Judith H. Oliver
Review by Rachel Fulton
Picturing Kingship: History and Painting in the Psalter of Saint Louis by Harvey Stahl
Review by William Chester Jordan
Introducing the Lambeth Bible: A Study of Texts and Imagery by Dorothy M. Shepard
Review by Diane Reilly
Parallel Narratives: Function and Form in the Munich Illustrated Manuscripts of ‘Tristan’ and ‘Willehalm von Orlens’ by Julie C. Walworth
Review by James Rushing
Notes on Contributors
Articles
“William of Conches, Philosophical Continuous Narration, and the Limited Worlds of Medieval Diagrams” by Eric M. Ramírez-Weaver
“Humility and Piety: The Annunciation in the Church of Ognissanti in Florence” by Julia Miller and Laurie Taylor-Mitchell
“Franciscan Chapel Decoration: The St. Silvester Cycle of Maso de Banco at Santa Croce in Florence” by Jane C. Long
“The Prince and the Bishop: A New Hypothesis for Tabernacle 35 in Siena’s Pinacoteca Nazionale” by Diana Norman
“Eyeing Envy in the Arena Chapel” by Matthew G. Shoaf
“The Gendering of Libertas and the International Gothic: Carlo Crivelli’s Ascoli Annunciation” by Timothy McCall
“Agostino Carracci’s Obscene Wit in Two Lascivious Prints” by Patricia Simons
Book Reviews
Icons and Power: The Mother of God In Byzantium by Bissera V. Pentcheva
Review by Michele Bacci
Image and Meaning in Islamic Art., Bernard O’Kane, ed., The Iconography of Islamic Art: Studies in Honour of Robert Hillenbrand., Anna Contadini, ed., Arab Painting: Text and Imagery in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts edited by Robert Hillenbrand
Review by Marianna Shreve Simpson
Pittura rupestre medieval: Lazio e Campania settentrionale (secoli VI–XIII) by Simone Piazza
Review by Linda Safran
The Enthroned Corpse of Charlemagne: The Lord-in-Majesty Theme in Early Medieval Art and Life by John F. Moffitt
Review by Matthew Gabriele
St Margaret’s Gospel-book: The Favorite Book of an Eleventh-Century Queen of Scots by Rebecca Rushforth
Review by Jane E. Rosenthal
Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday by Katrin Kogman-Appel
Review by Cynthia Robinson
Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, Music, and Manuscripts edited by Kathy M. Krause and Alison Stones
Review by Anna Russakoff
The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England by Karl Tamburr
Review by Richard K. Emmerson
Ovid’s Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence by Marilynn Desmond
Review by Susan J. Dudash
Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England by Jessica Brantley
Review by Ann Eljenholm Nichols
Notes on Contributors
Articles
“Imagining Savage Piety at St.-Paul-de-Varax” by Kirk Ambrose
“Images of Christ Emmanuel in Karanlik Kilise” by Rossitza B. Schroeder
“The Charity of the Virgin Mary in the Paris Meditations on the Life of Christ (BnF, ital. 115)” by Holly Flora
“Faire translater, faire historier: Charles V’s Bible historiale and the Visual Rhetoric of Vernacular Sapience” by Aden Kumler
“Elizabeth of Bosnia, Queen of Hungary, and the Tomb-Shrine of Saint Simeon in Zadar: Power and Relics in Fourteenth-Century Dalmatia” by Marina Vidas
“Salvatrix Mundi: Representing Queen Elizabeth I as a Christ Type” by Meryl Bailey
“The Quality of Mercy: Representations of Charity in Early Netherlandish Art” by Larry Silver and Henry Luttikhuizen
Book Reviews
Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture by Eunice Dauterman Maguire and Henry Maguire
Review by Maria Parani
The Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Saint-Vaast Bible by Diane J. Reilly
Review by Richard Gameson
The St Albans Psalter: A Book for Christina of Markyate by Jane Geddes
Review by Patricia Stirnemann
Joseph: Une image de la paternité dans l’Occident medieval by Paul Payan
Review by Pamela Sheingorn
Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio’s Visual Rhetoric and the Passion Cycle at La Brigue by Véronique Plesch
Review by David S. Areford
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Articles
“’Quo Vadis’: The Study of Italian Romanesque Sculpture at the Beginning of the Third Millennium” by Dorothy F. Glass
“’The Wine in the Vines and the Foliage in the Roots’: Representations of David in the Durham Cassiodorus” by Laura E. Cochrane
“A ‘Large Order of the Whole’: Intertextuality and Interpictoriality in the Hours of Isabella Stuart” by Richard K. Emmerson
“An Illustrated Romanesque Hagiographic Lectionary (Lucca: Biblioteca Capitolare, Passionaro C): Inspiration, Formulation, and Reception” by Charles S. Buchanan
“Defining the State in Commedia Miniature: Pictorial Responses to Dante’s Condemnation of Florence” by Karl Fugelso
“Rogier van der Weyden’s ‘Pregnant’ Magdalene: On the Rhetoric of Dress in the Descent From the Cross” by Penny Howell Jolly
Book Reviews
Krone und Schleier: Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern
Review by Karen Blough
Sancta Benedicta: Missionarin, Märtyrerin, Patronin; Der Prachtcodex aus dem Frauenkloster Sainte-Benoîte in Origny by Ingrid Gardill
Review by Judith Oliver
The Trinity Apocalypse (Trinity College Cambridge, MS R.16.2) by David McKitterick
Review by Brent A. Pitts
Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture by Robert Mills
Review by Madeline H. Caviness
Maiestas Domini: Une Image de l’église en Occident (Ve-IXe siècle) by Anne-Orange Poilpré
Review by William J. Diebold
Word and Image in the Book of Kells by Heather Pulliam
Review by Anne-Marie Bouche
Reading the Medieval Book. Word, Image and Performance in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Willehalm by Kathryn Starkey
Review by Michael Curschmann
The Christina Psalter: A Study of the Images and Texts in a French Early Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscript by Marina Vidas
Review by Elizabeth S. Hudson
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Articles
“Pleying and Peyntynge: Performing the Dance of Death” by Elina Gertsman
“The Levite’s Concubine: Imaging the Marginal Woman in Byzantine Society” by Mati Meyer
“Iuxta Iter Scandalum: The ‘Wayside Stumbling-Block’ in Late Medieval Passion Imagery” by Phillip Jeffrey Guilbeau
“Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: The Culmination of Papal Propaganda in the Sistine Chapel” by Anne Leader
“An Augustinian Interpretation of Caravaggio’s Calling of St. Matthew” by Troy Thomas
Book Reviews
Saint André: Culte et iconographie en France (Ve-XVe siècles) by Charlotte Denoël
Review by Magdalena Carrasco
Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity by Laura Weigert
Review by Kate Dimitrova
The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts by Zeev Weiss
Review by Katrin Kogman-Appel
Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain by Katrin Kogman-Appel
Review by Pamela A. Patton
The Lichtenthal Psalter and the Manuscript Patronage of the Bohun Family by Lucy Freeman Sandler
Review by Elizabeth Peterson
Das Passional der Kunigunde von Bšhmen: Bildrhetorik und Spiritualität by Gia Toussaint
Review by Panela Sheingorn
Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England: Three Women and Their Books of Hours by Kathryn A. Smith
Review by Anne Rudloff Stanton
Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts from the Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer by Maidie Hilmo
Review by Karla Taylor
Notes on Contributors
Articles
“Sheelas, Sex, and Significance in Romanesque Sculpture: The Kilpeck Corbel Series” by Marian Bleeke
“Iconography of Love: Illustrations of Bride and Bridegroom in Ashkenazi Prayerbooks of the Firteenth and Fourteenth Century” by Sarit Shalev-Eyni
“Visual Hagiography and its Context: The Narrative of the Shrine of San Donato” by Giovanni Freni
“The Paliotto of the Corpus Domini: A Eucharistic Sculpture for a Venetian Nunnery” by Paul H. D. Kaplan
“Patronage and Politics in the Court of the Catholic Monarchs: The Cancionero de Pedro Marcuello” by Barbara F. Weissberger
“’Tanto goffe e mal fatte . . . dette figure si facessino . . . belle’: The Trecento Overdoor Sculptures for the Baptistry in Florence and their Cinquecento Replacements” by William R. Levin
Book Reviews
The Sandbach Crosses. Sign and Significance in Anglo-Saxon Culture by Jane Hawkes
Review by Dorothy Kelly
Drawings and Sketches in the Plea Rolls of the English Royal Courts, c. 1200–1300 by Andrew H. Hershey
Review by Susan L’Engle
Biblical Imagery in Medieval England, 700–1550 by C. M. Kauffmann
Review by Kristine Haney
Gothic Art for England 1400–1547 edited by Richard Marks and Paul Wiliamson
Review by Colum Hourihane
Norwich Cathedral Roof Bosses by Martial Rose and Julia Hedgecoe
Review by Victor I. Scherb
The Warrior Saints in Byzantine Art and Tradition by Christopher Walter
Review by Elizabeth Key Fowden
Images de l’Égypte chrétienne: Iconologie copte by Mahmoud Zibawi
Review by Gertrud J. M. van Loon
Notes on Contributors
Articles
“The Aix Jeu de Robin et Marion: Image, Text, Music” by Mark Cruse, Gabriella Parussa, and Isabelle Ragnard
“Duccio’s Entry into Jerusalem: A New Interpretation” by Mary D. Edwards
“The Sarajevo Haggadah: The Concept of Creatio ex nihilo and the Hermeneutical School Behind It” by Katrin Kogman-Appel and Shulamit Laderman
“The Structure of Meaning: Architectural Representations in the Later Middle Ages” by Barbara Abou-El-Haj
“Immersed in Things of the Body: Humor and Meaning in an Annunciation by Filippo Lippi” by Barnaby Nygren
“The Clock in Filippino Lippi’s Annunciation Tondo” by Sarah Stanbury
“Reproducing the Contours of Venetian Identity in Sixteenth-Century Costume Books” by Bronwen Wilson
Book Reviews
Alcuin Blamires and Gail C. Holian, The Romance of the Rose Illuminated: Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, review by John V. Fleming
Madeline H. Caviness, Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy, review by Rachel Dressler
Erica Cruikshank Dodd, The Frescoes of Mar Musa al-Habashi: A Study in Medieval Painting in Syria, review by Mat Immerzeel
Christa Grössinger, Humour and Folly in Secular and Profane Prints of Northern Europe 1430–1540, review by A. E. Wright
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology, review by Karen Gould
Mary Coker Joslin and Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson, The Egerton Genesis, review by Martine Meuwese
Catherine E. Karkov, Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript, review by Benjamin C. Withers
Susan L’Engle and Robert Gibbs, Illuminating the Law: Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections, review by Kenneth Pennington
Liselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch, Spätformen mittelalterlicher Buchherstellung: Bilderhandschriften aus der Werkstatt Diebold Laubers in Hagenau, review by Michael Curschmann
Notes on Contributors
Indexes to Volumes
Articles by Author
Reviews by Author
Reviews by Reviewer
Articles
“Introduction: Toward an Archaeology of the Early Printed Image” by David S. Areford
“The Image in the Viewer’s Hands: The Reception of Early Prints in Europe” by David S. Areford
“The Use of Prints in German Convents of the Fifteenth Century: The Example of Nuremberg” by Peter Schmidt
“A Fifteenth-Century Woodcut of the Death of the Virgin in a Manuscript of Der Stachel der Liebe” by Richard S. Field
“Narrative Threads: The Pienza Cope’s Embroidered Vitae and Their Ritual Setting” by Wendy R. Larson
“The Annunciation to the Shepherdess” by Leslie C. Jones and Jonathan J. G. Alexander
“Velum Templi: Painted Cloths of the Passion and the Making of Lenten Ritual in Reims” by Laura Weigert
Book Reviews
Art, Liturgy and Legend in Renaissance Toledo by Lynette M. F. Bosch
Review by Judith Berg Sobré
The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and Art of Christ’s Passion by Celia Chazelle
Review by William J. Diebold
Inventing the Renaissance Putto by Charles Dempsey
Review by Sarah Blake McHam
Portrayed on the Heart: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century by Cynthia Hahn
Review by Sherry L. Reames
The Armenian Gospels of Gladzor: The Life of Christ Illuminated by Thomas F. Mathews and Alice Taylor
Review by Christina Maranci
Monarchy and Consent: The Coronation Book of Charles V of France, British Library MS Cotton Tiberius B.VIII by Carra Ferguson O’Meara
Review by Lynn Ransom
An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII, c. 1380–c. 1509: The Bodleian Library, Oxford, I–III edited by Kathleen L. Scott
Review by Adelaide Bennett
Contributors
Articles
“The People Demand a King: Visualizing Monarchy in the Psalter of Louis IX” by Gerald B. Guest
“The Cultivation of Upper-Class Otium: Two Aquileian ‘Oratory’ Pavements Reconsidered” by Antonia Holden
“Imagines Ætheldredae: Mapping Hagiographic Representations of Abbatial Power and Religious Patronage” by Virginia Blanton-Whetsell
“(In)Famous Men: The Continence of Scipio and Formations of Masculinity in Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Domestic Painting” by Cristelle L. Baskins
“Not Only Against Jews: Antisemitic Iconography and Its Functions at La Brigue” by Véronique Plesche
“Esther as a Model for Female Autonomy in Northern Italian Art” by Babette Bohn
Book Reviews
Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning, trans. John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi by Andrea Carlino
Review by Ynez Violé O’Neill
The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany by Adam S. Cohen
Review by Patrick J. Geary
Vision and Image in Early Christian England by George Henderson
Review by Carol Neuman de Vegvar
The Book of the Heart by Eric Jager
Review by Anne Hagopian van Buren
The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages by Katherine Ludwig Jansen
Review by Judith H. Oliver
The Making of the Bibles Moralisées by John Lowden
Review by Gerald B. Guest
Il battìstero di Parma: iconografia iconologia, fonti letterarie edited by Giorgio Schianchi
Review by Dorothy F. Glass
Late Antique Egyptian Funerary Sculpture: Images for this World and the Next by Thelma K. Thomas
Review by Christine Kondoleon
Notes on Contributors
Articles
“(Re)facing Prosopopeia and Allegory in Contemporary Theory and Iconography” by James J. Paxson
“The Medieval ‘Home Office’: Evangelist Portraits in the Mount Athos Gospel Book, Stavronikita Monastery, MS 43” by Joyce Kubiski
“Werewolves, Monsters, and Miracles: Representing Colonial Fantasies in Gerald of Wale’s Topographia Hibernica” by Rhonda Knight
“Re-presenting the Common Place: Architectural Portraits in Trecento Painting” by Felicity Ratté
“Magian Ars Medica, Liturgical Devices, and Eastern Influences in the Medici Palace Chapel” by Darrell Davisson
“A Pilgrim’s Book of Hours: Addendum” by Kathryn M. Rudy
Book Reviews
Cassone Painting, Humanism, and Gender in Early Modern Italy by Cristelle L. Baskins
Review by Marina Vidas
Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti: Sienese Art and the Cult of a Holy Woman in Medieval Tuscany by Joanna Cannon and André Vauchez
Review by Katherine L. Jansen
The Book of Kells: Its Function and Audience by Carol Farr
Review by Mildred Budny
The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and their Verse Inscriptions by Calvin B. Kendall
Review by Kirk Ambrose
Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible moralisée by Sara Lipton
Review by Suzanne Lewis
Antisemitic Hate Signs in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts from Medieval Germany by Ruth Mellinkoff
Review by Achim Timmermann
The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe by Mitchell B. Merback
Review by Marla Carlson
The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy by Jacqueline Marie Musacchio
Review by Marina Vidas
Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews by Miri Rubin
Review by Achim Timmermann
Articles
“Marcolf or Aesop? The Question of Identity in Visio-Verbal Contexts” by Michael Curschmann
“The Construction of Sanctity: Pictorial Hagiography and Monastic Reform in the First Illustrated Life of St. Cuthbert” by Magdalena Elizabeth Carrasco
“Cross-legged Knights and Signification in English Medieval Tomb Sculpture” by Rachel Dressler
“Froissart’s Chroniques and Its Illustrators: Historicity and Ficticity in the Verbal and Visual Imagine of Charles VI’s Bal des Ardents” by Lorraine Kochanske Stock
“The Altar-Shrine of Santa Fina: Local Sainthood and Church Authority in Quattrocento San Gimignano” by Linda A. Koch
“A Pilgrim’s Book of Hours: Stockholm Royal Library A233” by Kathryn M. Rudy
Book Reviews
Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: The Renaissance Response by Bernadine Barnes
Review by Bronwen Wilson
Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England by Michael Camille
Review by Lucy Freeman Sandler
The Game of Courting and the Art of the Commune of San Gimignano, 1290–1320 by C. Jean Campbell
Review by William Cook
The Poetry and Paintings of the First Bible of Charles the Bald by Paul Edward Dutton and Herbert L. Kessler
Review by Melanie Holcomb
Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature by Marc Michael Epstein
Review by Diane Wolfthal
Early Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces 1380–1550: Medieval Tastes and Mass Marketing by Lynn F. Jacobs
Review by Hans J. Van Miegroet
Painting in Bruges at the Close of the Middle Ages: Studies in Society and Visual Culture by Jean C. Wilson
Review by Hans J. Van Miegroet
Articles
“The English Parish Church and Its Art in the Later Middle Ages: A Review of the Problem” by Paul Binski
“The True Cross Reliquaries of Medieval Georgia” by Nina Chichinadze
“The Capitals of San Juan de la Peña: Narrative Sequence and Monastic Spirituality in the Romanesque Cloister” by Pamela A. Patton
“Susanna as a Type of Christ” by Catherine Brown Tkacz
“’Visible Parlare’: Dante’s Purgatorio 10 and Luca’s Signorelli’s San Brizio Frescoes” by Ronald B. Herzman
“Folly and Vanity in Bruegel’s Dulle Griet: Proverbial Metaphors and their Relationship to Bosche’s Imagery” by Yona Pinson
Book Reviews
Picturing the Passion in Late Medieval Italy: Narrative Painting, Franciscan Ideologies, and the Levant by Anne Derbes
Review by Vicki L. Hamblin
Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent by Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Review by Joanna E. Ziegler
The Icons of their Bodies: Saints and their Images in Byzantium by Henry Maguire
Review by William J. Diebold
Visualizing Boccaccio: Studies on Illustrations of The Decameron, from Giotto to Pasolini by Jill M. Ricketts
Review by William McClellan
Omne Bonum: A Fourteenth-Century Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge by Lucy Freeman Sandler
Review by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
The Medici Wedding of 1589: Florentine Festival as Theatrum Mundi by James M. Saslow
Review by Cristelle L. Baskins
Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan by Evelyn S. Welch
Review by Jonathan B. Riess
Articles
“Pope-Hennessy, Derrida, and ‘Literary Residue’ in Visual Images: The Case of Sassetta’s Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece” by Benjamin David
“Gregory the Great’s ‘Life of St. Benedict’ and the Illustrations of Abbot Desiderius II” by John B. Wickstrom
“St. Memmie, Apostle of Châlons, and Other Bishop Saints in the Gothic Windows of Châlons Cathedral” by Meredith Parsons Lillich
“The Virgin Lactans as Second Eve: Image of the Salvatrix” by Beth Williamson
“The Nether-Faced Devil and the Allegory of Parturition” by James J. Paxson
“Survival, Resistance, and Acculturation: Guaman Poma’s Use of Costume and Textile Imagery” by Lee Anne Wilson
Review Essay
Leslie Abend Callahan, Imagining Death: Three Recent Books on Death in/and the Middle Ages
Paul Binski, Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation
Michael Camille, Master of Death: The Lifeless Art of Pierre Remiet, Illuminator
Ann Tukey Harrison, ed., The Danse Macabre of Women: Ms. fr. 995 of the Bibliothèque Nationale
Book Reviews
Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England by Huston Diehl
Review by Marc Geisler
Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America 1450–1650 edited by Claire Farago
Review by Laura J. Crary
Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi by Michael Koortbojian
Review by Peter J. Holliday
Meaning in the Visual Arts: Views from the Outside, A Centennial Commemoration of Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968) edited by Irving Lavin
Review by Charles Burroughs
Reading Images: Narrative Discourse and Reception in the Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Apocalypse by Suzanne Lewis
Review by Rosemary Muir Wright
Pandora: Women in Classical Greece edited by Ellen D. Reeder
Review by Christine M. Havelock
Articles
“The Study of Marginal Imagery: Past, Present, and Future” by Lucy Freeman Sandler
“Art History, Literary History, and the Study of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts” by Jonathan J. G. Alexander
“Relics, Reliquaries, and Religious Women: Visualizing the Holy Virgins of Cologne” by Joan A. Holladay
“’Several Illuminations, Coarsely Executed’: The Illustrations of the Pearl Manuscript” by Paul F. Reichardt
“Daphne (Without Apollo) Reconsidered: Some Disregarded Images of Sexual Pursuit in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art” by Yael Even
“Caravaggio and Artemisia: Testing the Limits of Caravaggism” by Judith W. Mann
“From Theory to Practice: A Study of the Theoretical Bases of Peacham’s Emblematic Art” by Mason Tung
Book Reviews
Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval “Aeneid” by Marilynn Desmond
Review by Brigitte Buettner
Helene Peet Foley, Natalie Boymel Kampen, Sarah B. Pomeroy, and H. Alan Shapiro, Women in the Classical World: Image and Text by Elaine Fantham
Review by Eleanor Winsor Leach
Giambologna: Narrator of the Catholic Reformation by Mary Weitzel Gibbons
Review by John M. Hunisak
The Arnolfini Betrothal: Medieval Marriage and the Enigma of Van Eyck’s Double Portrait by Edwin Hall
Review by Diana G. Scillia
Domestic and Divine: Roman Mosaics in the House of Dionysos by Christine Kondoleon
Review by Diane Favro
The Renaissance Antichrist: Luca Signorelli’s Orvieto Frescoes by Jonathan B. Reiss
Review by Marjorie Reeves
Duivelsbeelden: Een cultuurhistorische speurtocht door de Lage Landen edited by Gerard Rooijakkers, Lène Dresen-Coenders, and Margreet Geerdes
Review by Walter S. Gibson
Imaging Aristotle: Verbal and Visual Representation in Fourteenth-Century France by Claire Richter Sherman
Review by Kathryn A. Smith
The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation edited by Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward
Review by Robert W. Hanning
African Zion: The Sacred Art of Ethiopia
Review by Thelma K. Thomas
Les Heures de Nurenberg: Reproductions intégrale du calendrier et des images du manuscript Solger 4.4o de la Stadtbibliothek de Nuremberg
Review by Adelaide Bennett
Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300–1450 and The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illustration, 1450–1550
Reviews by Edith W. Kirsch
Articles
“Recent Approaches to Early Christian and Byzantine Iconography” by Lois Drewer
“Salvation, Correctness, and Healing: Aspects of the Reception of a Sixth-Century Jonah Pyxis in St. Petersburg” by Karl Sandin
“’Ploratus et Ululatus’: The Mothers in the Massacre of the Innocents at Chartres Cathedral” by Kathleen Nolan
“Feminine Folly, Burgher Calculation, and Anti-Communal Rhetoric in Thirteenth-Century Tours” by Sharon Farmer
“La Genealogye Comence: Kinship and Difference in the Queen Mary Psalter” by Anne Rudloff Stanton
“Advertising Charity in the Trecento: The Public Decorations of the Misericordia in Florence” review by William R. Levin
“Vision and Violence in Some Gothic Meditative Imagery” by Nell Gifford Martin
“The Illustrated de Worde: An Overview” by Martha W. Driver
Book Reviews
The Point of Theory: Practices of Cultural Analysis edited by Mieke Bal and Inge E. Boer
Review by Dhira Mahoney, Corine Schleif, Debora Schwartz, Juliann Vitullo
Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, AD 422–1177 by Jane Chance
Review by Marilynn Desmond
Visual Polemics in the Ninth-Century Byzantine Psalters by Kathleen Corrigan
Review by Catherine Brown Tkacz
Sealed in Parchment: Rereadings of Knighthood in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes by Sandra Hindman
Review by Sylvia Huot
Romanesque Wall Painting in Central France: The Politics of Narrative by Marcia A. Kupfer
Review by Barbara Abou-El-Haj
The Practice of Theory: Poststructuralism, Cultural Politics, and Art History by Keith Moxey
Review by Marc Geisler
Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350–1544 by Ann Eljenholm Nichols
Review by Kathleen Ashley
An Introduction to Iconography: Symbols, Allusions, and Meaning in the Visual Arts by Roelef van Straten
Review by Brendan Cassidy
Articles
“Gender Trouble in Italian Renaissance Art History: Two Case Studies” by Cristelle L. Baskins
“Susanna and Saint Eligius: Romanesque Reception of a Carolingian Jewel” by Genevra Kornbluth
“Text and Image in the Making of a Holy Man: An Illustrated Life of Saint Maurus of Glanfeuil (MS Vat. Lat. 1202)” by John B. Wickstrom
“Saint Agatha and the Sanctification of Sexual Violence” by Martha Easton
“The Torture of Saint Apollonia: Deconstructing Fouquet’s Martyrdom Stage” by Leslie Abend Callahan
“Narratives of Marginalization: De-Centering Women in Tuscan Domestic Painting ca. 1500” by Peter F. Lynch
“The Humblest Prophet: The Infant Baptist in Venice ca. 1500” by Brian D. Steele
“Ambiguities of Apollo and Marsyas: Francesco Berni and His First Published Work, Dialogo Contra I Poeti” by Anne Reynolds
Book Reviews
Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work by Jonathan J. G. Alexander
Review by Martha W. Driver
Iconography at the Crossroads edited by Brendan Cassidy
Review by Ann Roberts
The Romance of the Rose and its Medieval Readers: Interpretation, Reception, Manuscript Transmission by Sylvia Huot
Review by Michael Camille
The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art by Thomas F. Mathews
Review by Dale Kinney
Outcasts: Signs of Otherness in Northern European Art of the Late Middle Ages by Ruth Mellinkoff
Review by Diane Wolfthal
From the Editors
Articles
"Iconography and Ideology: Uncovering Social Meanings in Western Medieval Christian Art" by Jonathan J. G. Alexander
"The Language of the Illustrations of Chrétien de Troyes's 'Le Chevalier au Lion (Yvain)'" by Nancy B. Black
"The Sex of the Savior in Renaissance Art: The 'Revelations' of Saint Bridget and the Nude Christ Child in Renaissance Art" by Vida J. Hull
"Donatello's Bronze 'David': Grillanda, Goliath, Groom?" by Cristelle L. Baskins
"Vasari's Pictorial Musing on the Muse: The Chamber of Apollo of the Casa Vasari" by Liana De Girolami Cheney
"Philology and Emblemcs: A Murder Case" by Karen Pinkus
"'Stayed Steps': Colun Clout's Slow Hastening into Riper Years" by Gary M. Bouchard
"The Poet as Art Critic: Identity and Representation in Marvell's 'The Gallery'" by Renée Hannaford Ramsey
"Disruption and Entanglement: Maenadism in William Holman Hunt's 'The Lady of Shalott' and Max Klinger's 'Temptation'" by Christiane Hertel
Book Reviews
The Ruthwell Cross edited by Brendan Cassidy
Review by Carol Neuman de Vegvar
Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art by Michael Camille
Review by Madeline H. Caviness
The Bernard H. Breslauer Collection of Manuscript Illuminations by William M. Voelkle and Roger S. Wieck, assisted by Maria Francesca P. Saffiotti