Art, power, and resistance in the Middle Ages

Abstract

"A collection of essays exploring how medieval works of art have engaged with discourses of power and resistance in both the Middle Ages and the modern world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Stones of pretension and acts of resistance : the triumphal column of Justin II / Elena N. Boeck -- Ottonian resistances / Eliza Garrison -- Visualizing Muslims and/as Black Africans in medieval Venice / Thomas E. A. Dale -- Saint George, translation, and empire in the medieval Mediterranean / Heather A. Badamo -- The "holy blood" of ʻUthmān ibn Affān in the Great Mosque of Córdoba : on Manābir, relics, and Sunni struggles / Avinoam Shalem -- The names of God : art, power, and ritual in medieval Córdoba / Tom Nickson -- Power and authority in visual paratext : the case of the Grandes chroniques de France / Anne D. Hedeman -- Roses and resistance : the iconography of courtly love in the #MeToo moment / Martha Easton.