Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art

This collection examines gender and Otherness other as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting a diverse array of up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconog

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Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art Carlee A. Bradbur y Michelle Moseley-Chr istian

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The New Middle Ages Series Editor Bonnie Wheeler English & Medieval Studies Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX, USA

The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14239

Carlee A. Bradbury Michelle Moseley-Christian Editors

Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art

Editors Carlee A. Bradbury Department of Art Radford University Radford, VA, USA

Michelle Moseley-Christian School of Visual Arts Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA, USA

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Preface

This project initially grew from a panel at the Southeastern College Art Association held in the fall of 2012 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The session was originally conceptualized as “Gender and Otherness in Medieval Art,” but following response to a call for papers, it quickly expanded to embrace a related early modern scope of inquiry. The range of studies we encountered both at