Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture: Liminal Spaces Editors: Elina Gerstman and Jill Stevenson The essays in this collection explore the thresholds between the visual and verbal, the sensory and performative, the literal and metaphorical, the social and epistemological that shaped the cultural matrix of the Middle Ages. The contributors' interrelated interests in patronage, word-image relationships, reception theory, gender studies, close visual and textual analysis, and performance criticism make for a valuable interdisciplinary mix that highlights the importance of studying medieval material culture in its many manifestations and valences. The book benefits from the ambitious cross-disciplinary explorations and engagements with contemporary theory undertaken in the field of medieval studies in recent decades, especially those by Pamela Sheingorn, to whom the volume is dedicated. Elina Gerstman is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art at Case Western reserve University. Jill Stevenson is Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at Marymount Manahttan College.