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The focus of this talk is the extremely robust and innovative period of European art from approximately 1000-1200 we now call "Romanesque." Coined in the early nineteenth century, “Romanesque” is a term that privileged particular "Roman-like" aspects of architectural construction but did not begin to cover the regional breadth of the myriad artistic...

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Congratulations to PhD candidates in medieval art Claudia Haines and Reed O’Mara on a splendid showing at this year’s Forum Kunst des Mittelalters in Bochum and Dortmund, Germany. Claudia presented work related to her dissertation on medieval medical manuscripts in a session organized by Reed, now on a Kress...

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Please join us to celebrate the inaugural year of Global Medieval Studies at CWRU with a welcome reception and lighting talk by Professors Evelyn Adkins (Classics), Elina Gertsman (Art History), Rachel Kapelle and Tom Sawyer (English), and David Rothenberg (Music)! All are welcome!  

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Congratulations to Dr. Bing Wang for the publication of her article, "Uncredited Hands: Labour, Branding and Collaboration at William Pryor Floyd’s Victoria Photographic Gallery in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong," in the latest issue of the prestigious journal History of Photography!  https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2026.2717662 Dr. Wang's article is adapted from her doctoral dissertation, "William Pryor Floyd: Art,...

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Global Medieval Studies Program Launched!

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We are delighted to announce the launch of our new program in Global Medieval Studies! Administered through the Department of Art History and Art in collaboration with Classics, English, Modern Languages and Literatures, and Music departments, the Graduate Certificate in Global Medieval Studies will offer students the opportunity to pursue rigorous interdisciplinary study of the medieval world. For questions, please contact Prof. Elina Gertsman, the program’s director, or visit our page. Click below for a peek at this semester’s events!

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We are delighted to share that doctoral candidate Jillian Kruse has accepted a position as Catalogue Raisonné Researcher at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute! Based in New York City, the WPI is a non-profit foundation working in collaboration with the Fonds WPI in Paris and dedicated to publishing digital catalogues...

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Rachel Sweeney, third-year PhD student in medieval art, was this year's recipient of the Terence Barry Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Irish Medieval Studies from the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Her paper, "The Faddan More Psalter: Tangible Connections Between the Insular World and Byzantium," was originally written...

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The Department of Art History and Art is delighted to announce the publication of Animalities and Humanities in Medieval Jewish Art, a special issue of Ars Judaica co-edited by Prof. Elina Gertsman. In addition to a broad range of articles, the volume features a roundtable discussion that explores historical and ecological spectra of...

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