Re-Assessing the Global Turn in Medieval Art History

Christina Normore is associate professor of art history at Northwestern University. She researches and teaches medieval art, with an emphasis on fourteenth-and fifteenth-century northwestern Europe. Carol Symes is the founding executive editor of The Medieval Globe. She is the Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is associate professor of history, theatre, and medieval studies. Her own research focuses on the history of documentary practices and communication media in medieval Europe.

• Editor’s Introduction, by Christina Normore         A Camel’s Pace: A Cautionary Global, by Bonnie ChengThe Fatimid Holy City: Rebuilding Jerusalem in the Eleventh Century, by Jennifer Pruitt          Worldliness in Byzantium and Beyond: Reassessing the Visual Networks of Barlaam and Ioasaph, by Cecily J. Hilsdale          Exchange of Sacrifices: West Africa in the Medieval World of Goods, by Sarah Guérin        The Beryozovo Cup: A Byzantine Object at the Crossroads of the Twelfth-Century Medieval World, by Alicia WalkerSpiritualized Warfare and Christian-Muslim Encounters in a Medieval Dagger, by Heather Badamo         Global Medieval at the 'End of the Silk Road', circa 756 CE: The Shōsō-in Collection in Japan, by Jun Hu            Response: Medievalists and Early Modernists: A World Divided?, by Lia Markey and Jessica Keating