Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Eleventh to Fourteenth Century
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2023

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Kite, Whitney, "The Lay of the Land: Armenian Monasteries in their Local Landscapes" (Columbia University, H. Klein, A. Shalem)

Salvador, María, "The Path of My Mountain: An Ecocritical Approach to the Art of the Kasuga Cult in Medieval Japan" (Harvard University, Y. Lippit, M. McCormick)

Dillon, Claire, "Narratives of Entanglement: The Making of Medieval Sicily through Fragmented Silks and Societies" (Columbia University, A. Shalem)

Mazariegos, Eric, "Melting, Flowing, Roving: The Unstable Aesthetics and Material Volatilities of Tairona Metallurgy, ca. 1000–1500 CE" (Columbia University, L. Trever)

Maceross, Lauren, "The 'pulchritudo rationis' of Human Organs: On a Physiological Poetics of Late Medieval Containers" (Johns Hopkins University, N. Zchomelidse)

Chitwood, Gabriela, "Toulouse Cathedral: Understanding Life in and Around a Cathedral under Construction" (University of Oregon, M. Hutterer)