Papers drawn in part from several theme sessions organized by Asa Mittman and Debra Strickland, and sponsored by the International Center for Medieval Art and the Glasgow Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, during the 2008 International Medieval
Congress at Leeds.
Editor-in-Chief: Rachel Dressler, University at Albany
Guest Editors: Asa Mittman,
Art and Art History, California State University, Chico; Debra Higgs Strickland, Glasgow Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies / History of Art, University of Glasgow
Contents
Debra Higgs Strickland, Glasgow Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies / History of Art, University of Glasgow: Introduction: The Future is Necessarily Monstrous
Susan M. Kim,
English, Illinois State University; and Asa Simon Mittman, Art and Art History, California State University, Chico: Ungefraegelicu deor: Truth and the Wonders of the East
Dana Oswald,
English, University of Wisconsin, Parkside: Unnatural Women, Invisible Mothers: Monstrous Female Bodies in the Wonders of the East
Asa Simon Mittman, Art and Art History, California State University, Chico; and Susan M. Kim, English, Illinois State University: Anglo Saxon Frames of Reference: Framing the Real in the Wonders of the East
Rosalyn Saunders,
English Language, University of Glasgow: Becoming Undone: Monstrosity, Leaslicam Wordum, and the Strange Case of the Donestre
Debra Higgs Strickland, Glasgow Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies / History of Art, University of Glasgow: The Sartorial Monsters of Herzog Ernst
Suzanne Lewis,
Art & Art History, Emerita, Stanford University: Encounters with Monsters at the End of Time: Some Early Medieval Visualizations of Apocalyptic Eschatology.
Special inaugural issue of Different Visions dedicated to Madeline H. Caviness’s “triangulatory”approach to medieval art and featuring papers given at the Forty-first International Congress on Medieval Studies, which took place at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, May 4-7, 2006
Editor-in-Chief: Rachel Dressler, University at Albany
Guest Editor: Corine Schleif, Arizona State University
Contents
Rachel Dressler, University at Albany, Welcome
Views of Ourselves
Kathleen Biddick, Temple University: Sexing the Cherry
Kathleen Biddick, Temple University and Madeline Caviness, Tufts University: Transcript of Inter-View, Boston, March 28, 2006, on which the above essay is based
Views of Our Theories, Views of Ourselves
Corine Schleif, Arizona State University: Introduction or Conclusion: Are We Still Being Historical? Exposing the Ehenheim Epitaph Using History and Theory
Charles Nelson, Tufts University: Are We Being Theoretical Yet? Innocents Abroad and Sachsenspiegel Scholarship
Madeline Caviness, Tufts University: General Response to the Papers, 2006, “The End of Theory?”
Views of Art from the Middle Ages, Views of Our Theories, Views of Ourselves
Madeline H. Caviness, Tufts University: From the Self-Invention of the Whiteman in the Thirteenth Century to The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Anne F. Harris, De Pauw University: Stained Glass Window as Thing: Heidegger, the Shoemaker Panels, and the Commercial and Spiritual Economies of Chartres Cathedral in the 13th Century
Karl Whittington, University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. candidate: The Cruciform Womb: Process, Symbol and Salvation in Bodlieian Library MS. Ashmole 399
Rachel Dressler, University at Albany: Gender as Spectacle and Construct: The Gyvernay Effigies at St. Mary’s Church, Limington
Sarah Bromberg, University of Pittsburgh, Ph. D. candidate: Gendered and Ungendered Readings of the Rothschild Canticles
Martha Easton, Bryn Mawr College: “Was It Good for You Too? Medieval Erotic Art and Its Audiences
Linda Seidel, University of Chicago: Adam and Eve: Shameless First Couple of the Ghent Altarpiece
