Visual Histories from Medieval Iberia

Jerrilynn Dodds is Harlequin Adair Dammann Professor at Sarah Lawrence College, in Bronxville, New York. The author of numerous publications centring on transculturation in the arts, she was awarded the Cruz de la Orden del Mérito Civil by the King of Spain in 2018 for her contribution to the history of the arts of medieval Spain.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceChapter One: An Agonistic History of ArtChapter Two: Christians, Muslims, and the Great Mosque of CordobaChapter Three: Babylon in FlamesChapter Four: Mudéjar and Romanesque. Romanesque and IslamChapter Five: Conversion to TranslationChapter Six: The Virgin in MurciaChapter Seven: Anxiety and EntanglementPostscript: An Ambivalent IberiaMap of Sites Discussed in the TextBibliographyIndex

[This] is a compelling intervention into both well-known and more niche examples of medieval Iberian art and architecture. Dodds’ expressed hope that her specific case studies "might set the stage for the exploration of unique and complex cultural environments, hindering a temptation to generalize the process of artistic interaction across time and space," is admirably achieved (p. xvii). Visual Histories from Medieval Iberia will stand as a model to scholars across disciplines and methodologies of the rewards that await those who dare to challenge conventional categories and who think creatively across disparate fields.