Description: Studies in Iconography is an annual journal hosted by the Index of Medieval Art and published in partnership with Medieval Institute Publications. It presents innovative work on the meaning of images from the medieval world broadly construed, between the fourth century to the year 1600.
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Renana Bartal is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art History, Tel Aviv University. Before joining the Tel Aviv faculty, she was a member of the European Research Council-funded research group "Spectrum: Visual Translations of Jerusalem to Europe" at Hebrew University. Her articles have appeared in Gesta, Viator, Journal of Medieval History, and Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale. She is the author of Gender, Piety and Production in Fourteenth Century Apocalypse Manuscripts (Ashgate/Routledge, 2016). She co-edited with Bianca Kühnel and Neta Bodner, Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500 (Ashgate/Routledge, 2017) and with Hanna Vorholt, Between Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kühnel (Brill, 2015). She is currently working on a second book tentatively titled Illuminated Meditations: Image and Practice in the Oxford Meditationes Vitae Christi.