Pamela A. Patton is Director of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University. She is the author or editor of several books, including Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America and Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.

“The essays in this volume offer compelling arguments on art and power that, both explicitly and implicitly, engage with issues of contemporary concern: from the rallying cry of #MeToo drawing attention to violent sexual imagery in late medieval ivories, as considered by Martha Easton, to Elena Boeck’s method of “testing” the credibility of one source through comparison to others—a process increasingly necessary in a world saturated with convincing disinformation—to Anne Hedeman’s reflection on the power of rubrics and images to purposefully skew perceptions of a central text, which will likely resonate in a generation where Twitter (or X) has framed an understanding of the news as much as the long-format story.”—Elizabeth Lastra The Medieval Review

Pamela A. Patton is Director of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University. She is the author or editor of several books, including Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America and Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.

“The essays in this volume offer compelling arguments on art and power that, both explicitly and implicitly, engage with issues of contemporary concern: from the rallying cry of #MeToo drawing attention to violent sexual imagery in late medieval ivories, as considered by Martha Easton, to Elena Boeck’s method of “testing” the credibility of one source through comparison to others—a process increasingly necessary in a world saturated with convincing disinformation—to Anne Hedeman’s reflection on the power of rubrics and images to purposefully skew perceptions of a central text, which will likely resonate in a generation where Twitter (or X) has framed an understanding of the news as much as the long-format story.”—Elizabeth Lastra The Medieval Review

Pamela A. Patton is Director of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University. She is the author or editor of several books, including Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America and Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.

“The essays in this volume offer compelling arguments on art and power that, both explicitly and implicitly, engage with issues of contemporary concern: from the rallying cry of #MeToo drawing attention to violent sexual imagery in late medieval ivories, as considered by Martha Easton, to Elena Boeck’s method of “testing” the credibility of one source through comparison to others—a process increasingly necessary in a world saturated with convincing disinformation—to Anne Hedeman’s reflection on the power of rubrics and images to purposefully skew perceptions of a central text, which will likely resonate in a generation where Twitter (or X) has framed an understanding of the news as much as the long-format story.”—Elizabeth Lastra The Medieval Review