The essays that follow adopt and adapt, explore and expand an approach to the medieval art object that Madeline Caviness has dubbed “triangulation.” The pioneering role of Professor Caviness in pursuing critical and theoretical goals provides the a priori condition for this volume. The endeavor is devoted to the methodology that Caviness first proposed in an article in 1997, more consciously developed in her book Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy in 2001, and subsequently articulated as a diagram in her e-book Reframing Medieval Art: Difference, Margins, Boundaries in This project is.
