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.
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"Each study in Art, Power, and Resistance in the Middle Ages productively challenges readers to reassess disciplinary assumptions. No comparable study engages so diverse a range of material through such a lens." -Kirk T. Ambrose,author of The Marvellous and the Monstrous in the Sculpture of Twelfth-Century Europe "The relationship of art to power was no less complex in the Middle Ages than it is today, as we witness the toppling of monuments testifying to histories of racial conflict. This volume reinvigorates our conversations about works of art and the contingencies of power across the medieval world through a range of provocative chapters tracing how medieval artworks come to serve as sites of resistance over time." -Cecily J. Hilsdale,author of Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline