Description: Furthers our understanding of the complexities of medieval ekphrasis while also complicating later understandings of the device.
Review Quotes: "This wide-ranging collection of essays offers a significant contribution to our understanding of the relationships between images and texts in the literatures of medieval Europe. The volume's insightful investigations of early ekphrastic texts and theories are certain to enrich ongoing scholarly conversations about rhetoric, literary form, imagination, and visual cultures in the Middle Ages and beyond." -- Shannon Gayk, Indiana University, Bloomington