Clemens Bley
studied art history, history, and political science in Potsdam and Berlin. His MA thesis, completed at Universität Potsdam, is entitled “Herrschaft und symbolishes Handeln im Kaiserlichen freien weltlichen Stift Quedlinburg im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert.” Bley is also the editor of the volume Kayserlich – frey – weltlich: Das Reichstift Quedlinburg im Spätmittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit. A freelance academic, he is particularly interested in the social and cultural history of the nobility in the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
Karen Blough
is Professor emerita of Art History at the State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh. She has lectured extensively and published numerous journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics in German medieval art. Her current research concerns visual and haptic access, from the Middle Ages to secularization, to the abbatial tomb monuments in St. Servatius, Quedlinburg, and early modern reception of late antique and medieval objects in St. Servatius’s treasury.
Shirin Fozi
joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art as the Paul and Jill Ruddock Associate Curator in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters in 2022 after nearly a decade on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Romanesque Tomb Effigies: Death and Redemption in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200 (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021) and co-editor of Christ on the Cross: The Boston Crucifix and the Rise of Medieval Wood Sculpture (Brepols Publishers, 2020). In addition to books and articles on monumental sculpture in the tenth through early thirteenth centuries she has published essays on the modern history of medieval collections, especially concerning materials in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Fozi currently serves on the Board of Directors of the International Center of Medieval Art and the Council of the Medieval Academy of America.
Tobias Gärtner
studied Pre-and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology/Folklore and History and completed his PhD on the excavations in the deserted medieval village of Edingerode near Hannover. His habilitation thesis deals with the history of the city and monastery of Quedlinburg in the Early and High Middle Ages based on archaeological sources, and with the development of
Eliza Garrison
is Professor of History of Art in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Her research is primarily focused on the art and historiography of the Ottonian period, and she is broadly interested in processes of political representation and theories of portraiture. She is currently at work on a book devoted to the Uta Codex.
Evan A. Gatti
specializes in late 10th- and early 11th-century art commissioned by bishops in connection to and conflict with the Ottonian and Salian empires. She was the co-editor for Envisioning the Bishop: Images and the Episcopacy in the Middle Ages with Sigrid Danielson (Brepols, 2014) and is currently at work on several projects concerned with concepts of facsimile, re-presentation, and historiography with a particular focus on the rotolus featuring scenes from the Acts of the Apostles held in the Archivio Capitolare in Vercelli (Rotoli figurati 5). Gatti is a member and current president of EPISCOPUS: The Society for the Study of Bishops & the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages and works closely with the Power of the Bishop Conference, with whom she is a partner in publishing conference proceedings.
G. Ulrich Großmann
studied art history, European ethnology, and Christian archaeology in Würzburg und Marburg from 1973 to 1979. He received his doctorate in art history in 1980 and completed postdoctoral work in architecture at the Universität Hannover in 1994 and in medieval art history at the Universität Bamberg in 1997. From 1980 to 1986, Großmann served as architectural historian at the Westfälisches Freilichtmuseum in Detmold. He was then founding director of the Weserrenaissance-Museum Schloß Brake in Lemgo (1986–94). From 1994 to 2019, he was General Director of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. Großmann has served on the boards of numerous cultural entities and was from 2012 to 2016 the president of the Internationaler Kunsthistorikerverband (International Association of Art Historians; CIHA).
Annie Krieg
is an instructor of art history in the Department of Art and Art History at Colorado State University where she teaches global survey courses as well as upper division courses on medieval and modern European art and architecture and feminist art history. She earned her PhD in the history of art and architecture
Manfred Mehl
is a retired Gymnasium teacher and the author of numerous numismatic corpuses and related publications. His specialization is the history of coins and money in Saxony-Anhalt, particularly during the Middle Ages. Mehl received the Bundesverdienstkreuz in acknowledgment of his scholarship and publications.
Katharina Ulrike Mersch
is senior lecturer in the history of the Middle Ages at the Ruhr-University in Bochum and has also taught at the universities in Frankfurt am Main and Göttingen. The author most recently of Missachtung, Anerkennung und Kreativität: Exkommunizierte Laien im 13. Jahrhundert (Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2020), she studies the history of women’s convents from a cultural perspective, religious exclusion within the broader frame of social history, and medieval conceptions of crowds.
Christian Popp
studied history, political science, and philosophy at the University of Trier and the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1993 to 1999. He completed his doctorate in 2005 at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a study of the collegiate church of Stendal in the diocese of Halberstadt. Since 2008 he is editor of the research project “Germania Sacra” at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. One of his main research interests is the history and liturgy of canoness convents in the Middle Ages.
Helene Scheck
is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Albany. She recently co-edited a collection of essays in honor of Helen Damico entitled New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture (Arc Humanities Press, 2019). Her scholarly interests center on women’s intellectual culture in early medieval Europe.
Adam Stead
is Research Associate (Collection Documentation) at the Museum Schnütgen in Cologne. He specializes in Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture, with a particular focus on Germany. His publications have appeared in Architectura and Studies in Iconography.
Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, no. 18284432. Bracteate with abbatial portrait of Beatrix II. 1138–60. Photograph by Christian Stoess
