Overview

Throne of gold and dress of stars : on the meaning of polychromy in high medieval Marian sculpture / Elisabeth Sobieczky -- Seeing God in the image of Mary : cross readings of the medieval Benedictine convent seal / Mija Oter Gorencic -- Devotion, gold, and the virgin : visualizing Mary in three fourteenth-century Tuscan panels in the National Gallery of Denmark / Marina Vidas -- Diagrammatic devotion and the Defensorium Mariae in the funerary chapel of Harman Parish Church / Mihnea A. Mihail -- Veil and signature : Giambono's Madonna Barberini / Sabine Engel -- Salve Regina in late medieval Dominican communities / Kristin Hoefner -- Developments in Servite Marian spirituality and the use of Saint Filippo Benizi in promoting servite miraculous Madonnas / Alana O'Brien -- Mary, Michael, and the devil. An eschatological-iconographic perspective on the liturgical drama of Philippe de Mézières / Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky -- "Mulier amicta sole" : transformations of a devotional image between the 15th and the 16th centuries / Ferenc Veress -- Mobile shrine and magical bodies : modern afterlives of medieval shrine Madonnas / Juliet Simpson.