This anthology examines the workings of historical imagery in fourteen essays, offering fresh perspectives from leading researchers on a wide range of medieval and early modern artworks in a similarly wide range of functional contexts.

Le texte latin, dont on trouvera ici la traduction, a été édité dans Humbertus de Romanis, De predicatione crucis (Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaeualis 279). Des renvois aux pages correspondantes de l'édition sont fournis dans les marges de cette publication.

This innovative volume of pre-modern cultural history offers the opportunity to compare the ways in which gender and status competition intersect across periods and places.