Postcolonising the Medieval Image

Eva Frojmovic is Lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at University of Leeds. She specialises in medieval Jewish art and manuscript illumination. She is also Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies. She edited the collection Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other: Visual Representation and Jewish Culture in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (Leiden: Brill, 2002). Catherine E. Karkov is Chair of Art History at the University of Leeds and has published widely on Insular and Anglo-Saxon art and archaeology. She is the author of Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004), and The Art of Anglo-Saxon England (Boydell Press, 2011).

Contents

Introduction
Eva Frojmovic and Catherine E. Karkov

Part 1 The language of the postcolonial

Chapter 1. Decolonising gold bracteates: From Late Roman medallions to Scandinavian Migration Period pendants
Nancy L. Wicker

Chapter 2. The Franks Casket speaks back: The bones of the past, the becoming of England
Catherine E. Karkov

Chapter 3. Camouflaging and echoing the Latin mass in an illuminated French-language missal
Margaret E. Hadley

Part 2 The location of the postcolonial

Chapter 4. Mandeville’s Jews, colonialism, certainty, and art history
Asa Simon Mittman

Chapter 5. Conquest and coexistence in sixteenth-century Granada: Imposing orders in the Alhambra’s Mexuar
Lara Eggleton

Chapter 6. Beyond Foucault’s laugh: On the ethical practice of medieval art history
Roland Betancourt

Part 3 The ambivalence of the postcolonial

Chapter 7. Postcolonising Thomas Becket: The saint as resistant site
Alyce A. Jordan

Chapter 8. Defining a merchant identity and aesthetic in Pisa: Muslim ceramics as commodities, mementos, and architectural decoration on eleventh-century churches
Karen Rose Mathews

Chapter 9. The Muslim warrior at the Seder meal: Dynamics between minorities in the Rylands Haggadah
Jane Barlow

Chapter 10. Neighbouring and mixta in thirteenth-century Ashkenaz
Eva Frojmovic

Bibliography
Index