Art, power, and resistance in the Middle Ages

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"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.

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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.