Geographical scope	Global perspective: within and beyond western Europe into Latin America, Africa, Byzantium, and the Middle East
Chronological scope	ca. 235 – ca. 1500: Late Antiquity to the central and later Middle Ages
Keywords	Visual cultures, material culture, global medieval studies, art history

Editorial Contact

Series Editors 

Jitske Jasperse

Jitske Jasperse (Ph.D. University of Amsterdam, 2013) is Assistant Professor of Kunst- und Bildgeschichte at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She held a postdoctoral position at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid (2016-2018). Driven by the question why and how people engage with artefacts, both precious and mundane, she has a particular interest in the relationship between material culture, women, and gender. She is member of the Leeds Program Committee for the Medieval Academy of America (2018-2022), associate board member of the International Center of Medieval Art (2019-present), and was Treasurer of CARMEN. The Worldwide Medieval Network (2015-2018).
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Further information and publications from her HU Berlin homepage

Elizabeth Williams

Elizabeth Dospel Williams (Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2015) is Associate Curator responsible for the care of the Byzantine Collection at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. She was previously a post-doctoral teaching fellow at the George Washington University and curatorial assistant in the Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her exhibitions and publications address late antique aesthetics, furnishings, dress practice, and sensory experience. She has also published on the history of collecting and art market issues, with a particular interest in the provenance histories of archaeological material from the late nineteenth century through the Second World War.She was on the board of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America (2015-2019), where she served also as Treasurer (2017-2019).

Karen Dempsey

Karen Dempsey’s work blends the theoretical perspectives of prehistoric, historic and anthropological archaeology as well as material culture and heritage studies. She is a medieval archaeologist who specialises in studies of castles. Currently, she is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at National University of Ireland, Galway, her project ‘Home is Where the Heart(h) is’ steps away from elite lives in medieval castles to examine the lived experience of ordinary medieval households in Ireland 1100–1600 AD. In particular, she is interested in exploring everyday life from a gendered perspective. Her work emphasises the importance of an holistic approach that combines people, places, thing- and increasingly plants – to inform us of past (and present) social practices. Further information from NUI Galway webpage.
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Advisory Board

Dr. Gisela Coronado Schwindt