Confronting the Borders of Medieval Art

Jill E. Caskey, Ph.D. (Yale, 1994), is associate professor of medieval art history and Ph.D. Coordinator at the Centre for Medieval Studies, both at the University of Toronto. Her work addresses issues of patronage and production in the art and architecture of the late medieval West.Adam S. Cohen, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins, 1995), is associate professor of art history at the University of Toronto's Department of Art. His research focuses on the early medieval art of northern Europe, especially Germany and England.Linda Safran, Ph.D. (Yale, 1988), publishes on late antique and Byzantine art and on contacts between cultural and faith groups in medieval southern Italy. She taught classics and art history at the Catholic University of America and University of Toronto.

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