Confronting the Borders of Medieval Art

This volume approaches the problem of the canonical ＂center＂ by looking at art and architecture on the borders of the medieval world, from China to Armenia, Sweden, and Spain. Seven contributors engage three distinct yet related problems: margins, frontiers, and cross-cultural encounters. While not displaying a unified methodology or privileging specific theoretical constructs, the essays emphasize how strategies of representation articulated ownership and identity within contested arenas. What is contested is both medieval (the material evidence itself) and modern (the scholarly traditions in which the evidence has or has not been embedded). An introduction by the editors places the essays within historiographic and pedagogical frameworks. Contributors: J. Caskey, K. Kogman-Appel, C. Maranci, J. Purtle, C. Robinson, N. Wicker and E.S.Wolper.

Jill E. Caskey, Ph.D. (Yale, 1994), is associate professor of medieval art history and Ph.D. Coordinator at the Centre for Medieval Studies, both at the University of Toronto. Her work addresses issues of patronage and production in the art and architecture of the late medieval West.
Adam S. Cohen, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins, 1995), is associate professor of art history at the University of Toronto’s Department of Art. His research focuses on the early medieval art of northern Europe, especially Germany and England.
Linda Safran, Ph.D. (Yale, 1988), publishes on late antique and Byzantine art and on contacts between cultural and faith groups in medieval southern Italy. She taught classics and art history at the Catholic University of America and University of Toronto.