Translating Christ in the Middle Ages: Gender, Authorship, and the Visionary Text by Barbara Zimbalist (review)

Abstract

JMRC_49_2_05_Book_Reviews.indd Page 271 18/08/23 7:39 PM Taken together, the essays that comprise The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland bring together a constellation of art historical, textually historical, sociological, and literary arguments that effectively provoke new ways of thinking about cruciform medieval roods in Ireland, Britain, and beyond. The pieces’ individual case studies and argumentative interventions into an array of scholarly conversations make the text an effective resource for any scholar interested in roods, medieval visual culture, or—in particular— interdisciplinary methodological frameworks for examining medieval art objects, or those objects’ present-day absence.