Winner of the American Academy of Religion's Religion and the Arts Book Award Winner of
the Borsch-Rast Book Prize & Lectureship An Oxford Alumni Book of the Month pick While …

A radical reassessment of the role of movement, emotion, and the viewing experience in
Gothic sculpture Gothic cathedrals in northern Europe dazzle visitors with arrays of sculpted …

In Touching the Passion—Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith,
Donna Sadler explores the manner in which worshipers responded to the carved and …

Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: from paintings to prints to small
sculptures, the art of the late Middle Ages and early modern period gave rise to disturbing …

Las Santas Casas de Misericórdias (The Holy Houses of Mercy) are institutions of
Portuguese origin that emerged in the late fifteenth century and that, over time, have …

This paper presents a new assessment of the hoard of five gold finger rings and ten silver
groats found together near the River Thame, in Oxfordshire, in 1940. It proposes a refined …

Medieval and Renaissance 'copies' of the Holy Sepulchre are striking for their visual
inaccuracies. This article proposes that these structures were never meant to serve only as …

Global mediation, communication, and technology facilitate pilgrimage places with porous
boundaries, and the dynamics of porousness are complex and varied. Three Marian …

One of the first acts in our daily routine is to look in the mirror. Irrespective of whether we like
what we see or not, in this act something happens that always has concerned man (and …

Bookmapped storytelling, a pedagogical approach designed by Terence W. Cavanaugh and
Jerome Burg (2011), allows students to trace a character's trajectory on a digital map. The …