Chapman Hamilton Tracy, Proctor-Tiffany Mariah (eds.). Moving Women Moving Objects (400-1500)

Brill, 2019. — 376 p. — (Maps, Spaces, Cultures 2).This collection forges new ground in the discussion of aristocratic and royal women, their relationships with their objects, and medieval geography. It explores how women’s geographic and familial networks spread well beyond the borders that defined men’s sense of region and how the movement of their belongings can reveal essential information about how women navigated these often-disparate spaces. Beginning in early medieval Scandinavia, ranging from Byzantium to Rus', and multiple lands in Western Europe up to 1500, the essays span a great spatio-temporal range. Moreover, the types of objects extend from traditionally studied works like manuscripts and sculpture to liturgical and secular ceremonial instruments, icons, and articles of personal adornment, such as textiles and jewelry, even including shoes.Tracy Chapman Hamilton, (Ph.D. 2004, University of Texas at Austin) is Visiting Associate Professor of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France: The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie de Brabant (1260–1321) (Brepols, 2018).Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, (Ph.D. 2007, Brown University) is Associate Professor of Art History at California State University, Long Beach. She is the author of Medieval Art in Motion: The Inventory and Gift Giving of Queen Clémence de Hongrie (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019).