Ambiguous Women in Medieval Art

Mónica A. Walker Vadillo obtained her Ph.D. cum laude in the History of Art from Complutense University in Madrid in 2013. She also holds two additional Masters in Medieval Studies from the Central European University in Budapest (Hungary), and the History of Art from the University of Florida in Gainesville (U.S.A.). Her research interests are connected not only with the study of gender, animals, and medieval manuscripts, but also with the study of medievalism in popular visual culture. She has presented the outcome of her research in numerous national and international congresses and she has been invited to give public conferences in Madrid (Spain), Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) and Louisville (Kentucky, U.S.A.). In addition, she has published extensively in peer reviewed journals and edited collections. Furthermore, she has already published a monograph title Bathsheba in Late Medieval Manuscript Illumination: Innocent Object of Desire or Agent of Sin? Since 2009, she has been an active member of the Medieval Animal Data-Network (MAD), organizing two of their international meetings and being involved as one of the editors in the publication of the proceedings of these meetings. She is also the co-editor of the academic blog of MAD (mad.hypotheses.org) and their social media strategist.

• Introduction, By Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo1. The Disease Woman: A Neutral Representation of Health? by Sara Öberg Strådal2. The Woman in Labour: A Twelfth-Century Navarrese Relief from the Church of San Martin de Tours, Artáiz, by Dilshat Harman3. Bathsheba's Bath and the Seven Deadly Sins: A New Interpretation of a Visual Narrative Strategy in Late Medieval Books of Hours, by Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo4. King Solomon's Ambiguous Wife in the Queste del Saint Graal, by Anastasija Ropa5. Saint Eugenia Outside-Inside-Outside Rome: An Iconographic Continuity?, by Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky6. Doubly crowned: The Public and Private Image of Two Fourteenth-Century Hungarian Queens, by Christopher Mielke7. Material and Temporal Ambiguity at Santiago de Compostela: The Case of the South Portal's Woman with the Skull, by Karen Webb