Manuscript illumination

Scholars universally acknowledge the eleventh century as the turning point in medieval Iberian history. Léon-Castile did not ally with the papacy until 1080 at the Council of Burgos when their liturgical practices were forcefully changed from the Visigothic to Roman rite. The il…

Shadows are an understudied element of medieval art, having been virtually ignored for generations of art history and medieval studies. Current, and scant, scholarship on shadows in the medieval period focuses primarily on their development in the creation of perspective and dim…

This thesis examines different elements of Jewish identity viewed through the images rendered in a fourteenth century illuminated copy of the twelfth century's Guide of the Perplexed, commonly referred to as the Copenhagen Maimonides. The highly variable economic and social stat…