Out of Bounds

Pamela A. Patton is Director of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University. She is the author of Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain and coeditor of The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography, both published by Penn State University Press.Maria Alessia Rossi is Art History Specialist at the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University. She is the coeditor of Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages and Late Byzantium Reconsidered: The Arts of the Palaiologan Era in the Mediterranean.

• List of IllustrationsPreface1. Shifting Boundaries: Medieval Art History for NowThelma K. Thomas and Alicia Walker2. On Account of the Rotundity of the Earth: Steps Toward an Inclusive Medieval ArtJill Caskey3. Medieval Masks? Meditations on Method Out of BoundsSarah M. Guérin4. Along the Art-Historical Margins of the Medieval MediterraneanMichele Bacci5. Looking at the “Center” from the “Border”: An Exchange of Franco-Ottoman Gifts and the Perception of Art Around 1400Michele Tomasi6. Alexander the Great’s Encounters with the Sacred in Medieval History Writing: From the Shahnameh to the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à CésarSuzanne Conklin Akbari7. Fashioning the Gendered, Classed, and White Self: A Sephardi Cultural ProjectEva Frojmovic8. Beyond Traditional Boundaries: Medieval Art and Architecture in Eastern EuropeAlice Isabella Sullivan9. “The Summit of the Earth”: What Armenian Texts Can Do for the History of Medieval Art and BeyondChristina MaranciContributorsIndex

“The book makes an eloquent case that ‘exploring the limits of medieval art’ to include global study and diversity benefits from innovative thinking, interdisciplinary study, and collaboration.”—D. H. Cibelli Choice