Notes on Contributors
Ana Cabrera Lafuente
is Subdirectora general adjunta of the Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España, Madrid. An archaeological background contributes to her expertise in object-centered research, especially of textiles. In professional experience and research, she focuses on collections management and museum databases, as well as collecting history and textiles, with a special emphasis on works from the medieval period, their raw materials, and weaving techniques, as well as the transfer of knowledge. Among the grants and fellowships she has received in support of her research is a 2016–2018 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the Victoria and Albert Museum (
María Judith Feliciano
is an independent scholar based in New York City. She specializes in the visual culture of the medieval and early modern Iberian worlds with a focus on the influence of the arts of Islam in the artistic developments of Peninsular and Viceregal societies. Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships including Fulbright, de Montêquin, Kress, Pasold, Max Van Berchem, and the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and US Universities. She has published numerous articles on medieval Iberian art and architecture, and she co-edited Interrogating Iberian Frontiers, a special issue of Medieval Encounters (2006). Her recent articles include “The Invention of Mudejar Art and the Viceregal Aesthetic Paradox: Notes on the Reception of Iberian Ornament in New Spain” (Princeton, 2016), “Al-Andalus and Castile: Art and Identity in the Iberian Peninsula” (with Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, London, 2016), and “Medieval Iberian Relics and Their Woven Vessels: The Case of San Ramón del Monte († 1126), Roda de Isábena Cathedral (Huesca, Aragon)” (with Ana Cabrera Lafuente and Enrique Parra, Leuven, 2018). Since 2015 she has been the co-director of the Medieval Textiles in Iberia and the Mediterranean Research Project.
Julie A. Harris
is a specialist in the art of medieval Iberia. She has published on ivory carving, pilgrimage, the fate of art and architecture during the Reconquest, and Hebrew illuminated manuscripts. A member of Therese Martin’s international research projects—Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture (2010–2015), The Medieval Treasury across Frontiers and Generations: The Kingdom of León-Castilla in the Context of Muslim-Christian Interchange, c. 1050–1200 (2016–2018), and The Medieval Iberian Treasury in Context: Collections, Connections, and Representations on the Peninsula and Beyond (2019–2022)—her recent publications have appeared in Gesta, the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Medieval Encounters, and the Journal of Medieval History. She edited Women’s Creativity and the Three Faiths of Medieval Iberia, a special issue of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (2014), and co-edited Church, State, Vellum, and Stone: Essays on Medieval Spain in Honor of John Williams (Brill, 2005). Recently she was awarded a fellowship from the Center for Spain in America at the Clark Institute for her ongoing project on the decorative carpet pages of Iberian Hebrew Bibles.
Jitske Jasperse
is Assistant Professor of Kunst- und Bildgeschichte at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and part of the nationally funded research project The Medieval Iberian Treasury in Context: Collections, Connections, and Representations on the Peninsula and Beyond led by Therese Martin. She previously held a postdoctoral position at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid (2016–2018). Driven by the questions of why and how people engage with artifacts, both precious and mundane, she has a particular interest in the relationship between material culture, women, and gender. She recently published Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power: Matilda Plantagenet and Her Sisters (Arc Humanities Press, 2020), and she co-edited with Karen Dempsey Getting the Senses of Small Things / Sinn und Sinnlichkeit kleiner Dinge, a special issue of Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung (2020). Her articles have appeared in journals across a range of disciplines, including Medieval Encounters (2019), Studies in Iconography (2018), Arenal. Revista de Historia de las Mujeres (2018), and Journal of Medieval History (2017).
Therese Martin
is Investigadora Científica (tenured) in the Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. She has held fellowships from the European Research Council, Fulbright, Mellon, de Montêquin, Kress, Getty, Salvador de Madariaga, and casva in support of her research on the intersections of medieval Iberia’s multiple cultures, women’s involvement with art and architecture in the central Middle Ages, and Romanesque construction and decoration. Her award-winning publications include “Crouching Crossbowmen in Early Twelfth-Century Sculpture: A Nasty, Brutish, and Short(-Lived) Iconography,” Gesta (2015), and “The Margin to Act: A Framework of Investigation for Women’s (and Men’s) Medieval Art-Making,” Journal of Medieval History (2016). In addition to her monograph, Queen as King (Brill, 2006), she has edited Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture (Brill, 2012) and ‘Me fecit.’ Making Medieval Art (History), special issue, Journal of Medieval History (2016). Currently she heads a fifteen-member team investigating The Medieval Iberian Treasury in Context: Collections, Connections, and Representations on the Peninsula and Beyond, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies.
Pamela A. Patton
is Director of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University. Her scholarship centers on the visual culture of medieval Spain and its environs, especially the role of the image in articulating cultural identity and social dynamics among the multiethnic communities of the Iberian Peninsula. Her recent publications include the 2012 monograph Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain (Pennsylvania State University Press, winner of the 2014 Eleanor Tufts Book Award), the edited volume Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America (Brill, 2016), “An Ethiopian-Headed Serpent in the Cantigas de Santa María: Sin, Sex, and Color in Late Medieval Castile,” Gesta (2016), and “Blackness, Whiteness, and the Idea of Race in Medieval European Art” (Fordham, 2019). Her current scholarship concerns the depiction and significance of skin color in Iberia and the western Mediterranean. Before joining Princeton in 2015, Patton was professor and chair of art history at Southern Methodist University. She is a co-editor of Studies in Iconography and a field editor for Oxford Bibliographies in Art History.
Ana Rodríguez
is Profesora de Investigación at the Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. Her main fields of research are the history of medieval Iberia, royal power and political institutions, and the social implications of political processes in the Middle Ages. She is the Principal Investigator of the erc Advanced Grant Petrifying Wealth. The Southern European Shift to Masonry as Collective Investment in Identity, c. 1050–1300 (2017–2021). Previously she was the Coordinator of the Marie Curie-itn European project Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom (2013–2016). Her books include La estirpe de Leonor de Aquitania. Mujeres y poder en los siglos XII y XIII (2014), Diverging Paths? The Shapes of Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom (ed. with John Hudson, 2013), and Objets sous contrainte. Circulation et valeur des choses au Moyen Âge (ed. with Laurent Feller, 2013). Among her recent articles are “Narratives of Expansion, Last Wills, Poor Expectations and the Conquest of Seville (1248)” (2016), “Remembering the Crusades while Living the Reconquest: Iberia, 12th-14th Centuries” (2016), and “Entre des conflits internes et des agents externes: Clôture et monastères féminins au Moyen Âge dans le royaume de Castille-et-León” (2015).
Nancy L. Wicker
is Professor of Art History at The University of Mississippi. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Humanities Center, and by grants from the American Philosophical Society, Getty Foundation, International Research and Exchanges Board, American-Scandinavian Foundation, and Berit Wallenberg Foundation. Besides co-editing three volumes on gender and archaeology, she has published on Scandinavian jewelry, animal-style art, figurative art of the Vikings, female infanticide, and runic literacy. Her most recent article is “Dazzle, Dangle, and Jangle: Sensory Effects of Scandinavian Gold Bracteates,” Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung (2020). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Humanities at Uppsala, a member of the Internationales Sachsensymposion, and an Editorial Board member of Gesta, the journal of the International Center of Medieval Art. She has been a Councillor of the Medieval Academy of America, President of the Society of Historians of Scandinavia, and an Associate Editor of Medieval Archaeology.