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...
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...
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...
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...
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...