“The Social Lives of Medieval Rings,” edited by Jitske Jasperse, explores the intricate roles of medieval rings as social artifacts that connect people, places, and cultural practices from 1100 to 1500 across Europe, revealing their significance in historical and contemporary contexts.
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New Publication: ‘The Digital Medieval Manuscript: Material Approaches to Digital Codicology’ by Suzette van Haaren
This new book explores the digital medieval manuscript as a unique cultural artifact, not just a copy of its physical counterpart.
New Publication: ‘American Gothic: Reflections on Gothic Scholarship in America 1925–2025’ edited by Robert Bork
AVISTA are excited to announce the publication of the 18th volume in our Brill series, AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art, with American Gothic: Reflections on Gothic Scholarship in America 1925–2025, edited by Robert Bork.
New Publication: ‘The Medieval Mediterranean between Islam and Christianity: Crosspollinations in Art, Architecture, and Material Culture’, Edited by Sami Luigi De Giosa and Nikolaos Vryzidis
In this volume, thirteen international scholars explore various aspects of pan-Mediterranean Christian-Islamic encounters in material culture and art, from textiles to precious oils, and from metalwork to ceramics, covering most of the Mediterranean, as well as parts of its extended hinterland, from Spain and Italy to Egypt and Georgia.
New Publication: ‘Histoire du Berry’, by Emmanuel Legeard
A new study traces the longue durée of the Berry region from Celtic antiquity to modern memory, but it is the figure of Jean, Duke of Berry (1340–1416), who commands particular attention.
New Publication: ‘Unrepresented: The Suppression of Images in the Middle Ages’ by Robert Couzin
Robert Couzin’s Unrepresented: The Suppression of Images in the Middle Ages is a unique study of figures and attributes left out of the picture.
New Publication: ‘The Twelfth-Century Mosan Reliquary of Pétermonostora’ by Bernát Rácz
This new book examines the two exceptionally large enamel plaques discovered in the excavation of the archaeological site of Pétermonostora (Hungary).
New Open Access Publication: ‘Art médiéval et médiévalisme’, edited by Philippe Cordez
This new open-access volume, the result of work carried out in 2015/2016 at the German Centre for Art History in Paris, brings together fifteen studies on medieval artefacts and their subsequent history, up to the present day.
New Publication: ‘Representations of Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period: Exploring Iconographic Flexibility and Permeability’, edited by Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky
This volume traces the often significant iconographic flexibility in terms of both how the Virgin Mary and Saint Anne were presented and perceived, and what can be termed a permeability between visual representations of the two saints.
New Publication: ‘Art and Drama on a Late Medieval Rood Screen: Unveiling a Mystical Passion’ by Michael Calder
Discover the unique iconographic program of the late medieval rood screens at Berry Pomeroy in this new publication.
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