Insights and Interpretations: Studies in Celebration of the Eighty-fifth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art

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Established in 1917, the Index of Christian Art, located at Princeton University, is now the largest archive of medieval art and the most specialized resource for the iconographer. Throughout its 85 years, it has been recognized as one of the most learned institutions for the study of the art and culture of the medieval world. The essays in this volume, all by staff or scholars of the archive, highlight some of the current research in the archive and the scholarship for which it has been renowned. The studies cover art from the Late Antique period to the end of the 15th century and include most of the media represented in the archive, from manuscripts to sculpture to glass. From reinterpreting previous scholarship to making new insights into the medieval mind, they explore such themes as Jephtha's Daughter; Mary Magdalene; Saints Blaise, Paul, Joseph and Elisabeth of Hungary; and topics including women in the Bibles moralisees, Late German sermons, the iconographic programme at Bourges Cathedral, Franciscan devotional art and a late medieval Islamic manuscript. The contributors to this volume are Adelaide Bennett, Lois Drewer, Ivan Great, Judith Golden, Gerald Guest, Margaret Jenni