In The Cross in the Visual Culture of Late Antique Egypt Gillian Spalding-Stracey brings the design of crosses in monastic and ecclesiastical settings to the fo

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Where are the limits of medieval art as a field of study? What happens when conventionally trained art historians disregard the chronological, geographical, or