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Christina Normore researches and teaches medieval art, with an emphasis on 14th-15th century Northwestern Europe. Her work investigates a broad range of specific topics that are united by a concern for medieval art objects and practices. She challenges current methodologies and aims to reshape the understanding of the period and its geographical divisions. Her book, 'Feast Eyes: Art, Performance Late Medieval Banquet,' published by University of Chicago Press in 2015, argues that banquet organizers and participants developed sophisticated ways of appreciating artistic skill while attending to their own processes of perception, thereby forging a court culture that delighted in the exercise of fine aesthetic judgment. Currently engaged in long-term research projects, she considers the militarism that is both promoted and questioned through the material culture intertwined with intimate reflections found in manuscript margins as well as the fortification landscape of France, Flanders, and England. Her research critically engages the possibilities and problems posed by the rapidly expanding scholarly and institutional interest in transcultural exchanges of the Old World. She also edited the volume 'Reassessing Global Turn Medieval Art History,' showcasing various perspectives from Byzantinists, East Asianists, Islamicists, and Western medievalists, published by Arc Humanities Press in 2018.
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