Portraying Medieval Women

The Materiality of Female Images and Art Patronage in the Latin East (12th–15th centuries)

The present project aims to provide a methodological reassessment of and a new interpretive frame to the materiality of Palestinian loca sancta, their interaction with the surrounding environment, their interconnectedness in the frame of topographic networks meant to be experienced through physical movement, and more generally, the construction of sanctity through and in things and its sensory apprehension.

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