Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays offering critical perspectives on the study of medieval art, challenging chronological, geographical, and cultural boundaries.
Trade Review“Out of Bounds is a timely and valuable contribution to the growing body of works on global perspectives for the study of art history and on the place of medieval art in this global discourse. It is a welcome addition to the category of anthologies, which are among the most useful resources enabling us to grasp the expanded and reconfigured landscape of the field of medieval art.”
—Eva R. Hoffman,Tufts University, Emerita
“Out of Bounds is a compelling body of essays providing access to new concepts on the breadth of the medieval world in time and place and ways to study it in global, non-Eurocentric terms. Patton and Rossi stress the importance of what can be learned from regions and peoples that were once considered the nearly irrelevant periphery and recognize the challenges in seeking such new understandings.”
—Helen C. Evans,Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art Emerita, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface
1. Shifting Boundaries: Medieval Art History for Now
Thelma K. Thomas and Alicia Walker
2. On Account of the Rotundity of the Earth: Steps Toward an Inclusive Medieval Art
Jill Caskey
3. Medieval Masks? Meditations on Method Out of Bounds
Sarah M. Guérin
4. Along the Art-Historical Margins of the Medieval Mediterranean
Michele Bacci
5. Looking at the “Center” from the “Border”: An Exchange of Franco-Ottoman Gifts and the Perception of Art Around 1400
Michele Tomasi
6. 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
7. Fashioning the Gendered, Classed, and White Self: A Sephardi Cultural Project
Eva Frojmovic
8. Beyond Traditional Boundaries: Medieval Art and Architecture in Eastern Europe
Alice Isabella Sullivan
9. “The Summit of the Earth”: What Armenian Texts Can Do for the History of Medieval Art and Beyond
Christina Maranci
Contributors
Index
