Barbara Baert is Professor in Medieval Art at the University of Leuven. In 2006 she founded the Iconology Research Group, an international and interdisciplinary platform for the study of the interpretation of images. Her disciplines concern Sacred Topography, Visual Anthropology, Relics and Devotion and Art Theory. Recent books are Fluid Flesh. The Body, Religion and the Visual Arts ((Ed.) 2009) and Interspaces between Word, Gaze and Touch: The Bible and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages (2011) and New Perspectives in Iconology: Visual Studies and Anthropology ((Eds.) 2012).

• List of Illustrations ...xiCopyrights ...xixAcknowledgements ...xxiiiPrologue ...11.The narrative ...92.The relics ...223.The genesis of an artifact ...454.The liturgical calendar: performative acts and therapy ...615.The sacramental context: water and blood ...836.The Andachtsbild: the gaze and the senses ...1057.The Medusa efffect ...1308.Skull cult ...1439.Sacrifijice and dance ...15310.In utroque: genealogy and foundation ...16611.In utroque: head and face...18412.The executioner’s arm: painting as blood ...20513.Epilogue: Nachleben ...211Bibliography ...225Index ...247

Barbara Baert is Professor in Medieval Art at the University of Leuven. In 2006 she founded the Iconology Research Group, an international and interdisciplinary platform for the study of the interpretation of images. Her disciplines concern Sacred Topography, Visual Anthropology, Relics and Devotion and Art Theory. Recent books are Fluid Flesh. The Body, Religion and the Visual Arts ((Ed.) 2009) and Interspaces between Word, Gaze and Touch: The Bible and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages (2011) and New Perspectives in Iconology: Visual Studies and Anthropology ((Eds.) 2012).

• List of Illustrations ...xiCopyrights ...xixAcknowledgements ...xxiiiPrologue ...11.The narrative ...92.The relics ...223.The genesis of an artifact ...454.The liturgical calendar: performative acts and therapy ...615.The sacramental context: water and blood ...836.The Andachtsbild: the gaze and the senses ...1057.The Medusa efffect ...1308.Skull cult ...1439.Sacrifijice and dance ...15310.In utroque: genealogy and foundation ...16611.In utroque: head and face...18412.The executioner’s arm: painting as blood ...20513.Epilogue: Nachleben ...211Bibliography ...225Index ...247

Barbara Baert is Professor in Medieval Art at the University of Leuven. In 2006 she founded the Iconology Research Group, an international and interdisciplinary platform for the study of the interpretation of images. Her disciplines concern Sacred Topography, Visual Anthropology, Relics and Devotion and Art Theory. Recent books are Fluid Flesh. The Body, Religion and the Visual Arts ((Ed.) 2009) and Interspaces between Word, Gaze and Touch: The Bible and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages (2011) and New Perspectives in Iconology: Visual Studies and Anthropology ((Eds.) 2012).

• List of Illustrations ...xiCopyrights ...xixAcknowledgements ...xxiiiPrologue ...11.The narrative ...92.The relics ...223.The genesis of an artifact ...454.The liturgical calendar: performative acts and therapy ...615.The sacramental context: water and blood ...836.The Andachtsbild: the gaze and the senses ...1057.The Medusa efffect ...1308.Skull cult ...1439.Sacrifijice and dance ...15310.In utroque: genealogy and foundation ...16611.In utroque: head and face...18412.The executioner’s arm: painting as blood ...20513.Epilogue: Nachleben ...211Bibliography ...225Index ...247