Index of Medieval Art

Index Publications

The Index of Medieval Art maintains a steady tradition of publishing the scholarship presented at its conferences. As of 2021, these volumes appear under the imprint Signa: Papers of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University, a peer-reviewed book series co-published by the Index and Penn State University Press. The most recent volume in the series, Out of Bounds: Exploring the Limits of Medieval Art, appeared in October 2023.

Publication and purchasing information for all Index volumes can be found below. Some volumes are also available for purchase through the Index offices; please contact Fiona Barrett (fionab@princeton.edu or 609-258-3773).

Out of Bounds: Exploring the Limits of Medieval Art
Edited by Pamela A. Patton and Maria Alessia Rossi
2023

Iconography Beyond the Crossroads
Image, Meaning, and Method in Medieval Art

Edited by Pamela A. Patton and Catherine A. Fernandez
2022

The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography
Edited by Pamela A. Patton and Henry Schilb
2021

Manuscripta Illuminata – Approaches to Understanding Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
Edited by Colum Hourihane
2014

Patronage: Power & Agency in Medieval Art
Edited by Colum Hourihane
2013

Abraham in Medieval Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Art
Edited by Colum Hourihane
2013

From Minor to Major
The Minor Arts in Medieval Art History

Edited by Colum Hourihane
2012

Insular & Anglo-Saxon
Art and Thought in the Early Medieval Period

Edited by Colum Hourihane
2011

Gothic Art and Thought in the Later Medieval Period
Essays in Honor of Willibald Sauerländer

Edited by Colum Hourihane
2011

Looking Beyond
Visions, Dreams, and Insights in Medieval Art & History

Edited by Colum Hourihane
2010

Byzantine Art: Recent Studies, Essays in Honor of Lois Drewer
Edited by Colum Hourihane
2009. Co-published with The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Out of print.

Romanesque Art and Thought in the Twelfth Century
Edited by Colum Hourihane
2008

Spanish Medieval Art: Recent Studies
Edited by Colum Hourihane
2007. Co-published with The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Out of print.

Interactions
Artistic Interchange Between the Eastern and Western Worlds in the Medieval Period

Edited by Colum Hourihane
2007

Time in the Medieval World
Occupations of the Months and Signs of the Zodiac in the Index of Christian Art

Edited by Colum Hourihane
2007

Between the Picture and the Word
Essays in Commemoration of John Plummer

Edited by Colum Hourihane
2004

Objects, Images, and the Word: Art in the Service of the Liturgy
Edited by Colum Hourihane
2003. Out of print.

Insights and Interpretations:
Studies in Celebration of the Eighty-fifth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art

Edited by Colum Hourihane
2002

King David in the Index of Christian Art
Edited by Colum Hourihane
2002. Out of print.

From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Late Gothic Period and Its European Context
Edited by Colum Hourihane
2001. Out of print.

Virtue and Vice:
The Personifications in the Index of Christian Art

Edited by Colum Hourihane
2000

Irish art historical studies in honour of Peter Harbison
Edited by Colum Hourihane
1999

Image and Belief:
Studies in Celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art
Edited by Colum Hourihane
1999. Out of print.

Iconography at the Crossroads: Papers from the Colloquium Sponsored by the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, 23-24 March 1990
Edited by Brendan Cassidy
1993. Out of print.

The Ruthwell Cross: Papers from the Colloquium Sponsored by the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, 8 December 1989
Edited by Brendan Cassidy
1992. Out of print.

Meditations on the life of Christ: An Illustrated Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century
Edited by Rosalie Green
Translated by Isa Ragusa
1961. Out of print.