Introduction: Visualizing Female Sexuality in Medieval Cultures
Sherry C. M. Lindquist • Western Illinois University Download PDF This issue of Different Visions dedicated to the visual representations of female sexuality in medieval cultures originated in a conference session at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds in...
Theologizing or Indulging Desire: Bathers in the Sacra Parallela (Paris, BnF, gr. 923)
Mati Meyer • The Open University of Israel Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/DXMD1714 The Sacra Parallela is a theological and ascetic florilegium of biblical (OT and NT) and patristic citations related to a now-lost model entitled Hiera, composed in...
“Hag of the Castle:” Women, Family, and Community in Later Medieval Ireland
Marian Bleeke • Cleveland State University Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/ERNV9369 In a letter written as part of his work for the Irish Department of the Ordnance Survey in 1840, Thomas O’Conor recorded his reaction to a “Sheela-na-gig” sculpture—the...
The Bared Breast in Medieval Ashkenazi Illumination: Cultural Connotations in a Heterogeneous Society
Sarit Shalev-Eyni • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/QNDD2270 Hermann, the abbot of the Premonstratensian cloister in Scheda, formerly Judah ben David Halevi, was born in Cologne at the beginning of the twelfth century to a...
Si grant ardor: Transgression and Transformation in the Pühavaimu Altarpiece
Elina Gertsman • Case Western Reserve University Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/IFCO5742 In a well-appointed room, several people gather around an ornate bed. Stretched on it is an almost naked miniature man, his hands nailed to a piece of...
Active Objects: An Introduction
Karen E. Overbey & Benjamin C. Tilghman Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/SYAQ1276 We are surrounded by things doing things. Consider the computer on which you are reading, or perhaps from which you just printed, this essay. Listen to it whir and hum,...
Copper-Alloy Substrates in Precious Metal Treasury Objects: Concealed and Yet Excessive
Joseph Salvatore Ackley • Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/BFJJ2322 The two sides of the Borghorst reliquary cross, repoussé obverse and engraved reverse, present an appearance of gold, as does the...
On the Enigmatic Nature of Things in Anglo-Saxon Art
Benjamin C. Tilghman • Lawrence University Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/TPMM7414 One of the more vexing problems facing scholars of Anglo-Saxon art is the simple fact that we often do not know precisely what it is that we are dealing...
Active Optics: Carolingian Rock Crystal on Medieval Reliquaries
Genevra Kornbluth • Independent Scholar Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/HOUR8146 It may be useful to begin this essay with a very basic observation. Aside from kinetic sculpture, objects are only as active as viewers allow them to be....
Materia Meditandi: Haptic Perception and Some Parisian Ivories of the Virgin and Child, ca. 1300
Alexa Sand • Utah State University Download PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.61302/FBJV9093 Among the many exquisite ivories of the Virgin and Child in the collection of the V&A, the Rattier Virgin, a Parisian work of about 1270, stands out for its delicacy and...