Out of bounds: exploring the limits of medieval art

Abstract

"A collection of essays offering critical perspectives on the study of medieval art, challenging chronological, geographical, and cultural boundaries"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Shifting boundaries : medieval art history for now / Thelma K. Thomas and Alicia Walker -- On account of the rotundity of the Earth : steps toward an inclusive medieval art / Jill Caskey -- Medieval masks? : meditations on method out of bounds / Sarah M. Guérin -- Along the art-historical margins of the medieval Mediterranean / Michele Bacci -- Looking at the "center" from the "border" : an exchange of Franco-Ottoman gifts and the perception of art around 1400 / Michele Tomasi -- Alexander the Great's encounters with the sacred in medieval history writing : from the Shahnameh to the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- Fashioning the gendered, classed, and white self : a Sephardi cultural project / Eva Frojmovic -- Beyond traditional boundaries : medieval art and architecture in Eastern Europe / Alice Isabella Sullivan -- "The summit of the Earth" : what Armenian texts can do for the history of medieval art and beyond / Christina Maranci.