Selection of papers presented at the symposium Seeing the Medieval: Realms of Faith/Visions for Today, held May 30-31, 2008, organized by Fordham Center on Religion and Culture and the Museum of Biblical Art.
Why the medieval matters / Ena Giurescu Heller
The Middle Ages in life and art / Thomas Cahill
Teaching medieval art in museums and on the Web. From the lecture hall to museum gallery: teaching medieval art using primary objects / Patricia C. Pongracz ; Teaching medieval architecture at the Cloisters / Nancy Wu ; Cataloguing medieval manuscript fragments: a window on the scholar's workshop, with an emphasis on electronic resources / Margot Fassler
Reading medieval liturgical objects: perspectives from different fields of study. The living past: form and meaning in a late medieval Eucharistic chalice from the Walters Art Museum / C. Griffith Mann ; Liturgical instruments and the placing of presence / Xavier John Seubert ; What the Eucharist dove teaches: Protestant theology students and medieval liturgy / Robin M. Jensen ; A theological reading of medieval Eucharistic vessels as emblems of embrace / Mary C. Moorman
Broadening the perspective. Arms and armor: a farewell to persistent myths and misconceptions / Dirk H. Breiding ; The cure of perfection: women's obstetrics in early and medieval Islam / Kathryn Kueny.
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Perspectives on medieval art : learning through looking. ISBN 9780977783953. Published by Museum of Biblical Art in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
