New issue of Gesta published by the International Center of Medieval Art offers a number of exciting studies of medieval art. And a theoretical reflection by Betancourt of why medieval art matters in a modern context
Ed by Linda Safran and Adam S. Cohen
Table of Contents:
- Encounter: The Mosaics in the Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai
Jaś Elsner - Medieval Art after Duchamp: Hans Belting’s Likeness and Presence at 25
Roland Betancourt - The Painting of Knowledge in Thirteenth-Century Rome
Marius B. Hauknes - Judgment on Parchment: Illuminating Theater in Besançon MS 579
Beatrice Ellen Kitzinger - The Exceptional Role of St. Joseph in Ugolino di Prete Ilario’s Life of the Virgin at Orvieto
Sara Nair James - Complicating Medieval Anti-Semitism: The Role of Class in Two Tales of Christian Violence against Jews
Diane Wolfthal
Gesta is published by the University Press of Chicago and sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art
