Pictorial abstraction in the Middle Ages: an innovative reflection that offers a powerful cross-disciplinary approach to medieval art, under a completely rethought concept of abstraction in close contact with finely analyzed images.
Elina Gertsman is Distinguished University Professor, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of Medieval Art at Case Western Reserve University. She writes on a wide variety of subjects, from image theory to polyfunctionality of objects.
Vincent Debiais is Director of Research at the CNRS and a member of the Centre de recherches historiques (EHESS-CNRS, Paris). He has published on writing, silence and text/image relations in medieval art.
