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

Sixth to Tenth Century
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2019

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Bachman, Christine, “Outside the Pages: The Making and Meaning of Early Medieval Book Covers” (University of Delaware, L. Nees)

King, Katherine, “Deliberate Defacement: Provocation and Response in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts” (Princeton, C. Barber)

Kopta, Joseph R., “Chromatic Networks: Materiality of Middle Byzantine Gospel Lectionaries (ca. 850–1204 CE)” (Temple University, E. Bolman)

Muehlbauer, Mikael, "’Bastions of the Cross:’ Medieval Rock-cut Cruciform Churches of Tigray, Ethiopia" (Columbia University, S. Murray)

Pistone, Francesca, "Manuscript production in the Abbey of Fleury 798-1004” (Princeton, C. Barber and B. Kitzinger)

Vause, Rachael, “The Cross and the Body in Early Medieval England” (University of Delaware, L. Nees)

Webb, Lora, "Kosmos Embodied: Eunuchs and Byzantine Art from the Ninth through Twelfth Centuries" (Stanford University, B. Pentcheva)