Carlee A. Bradbury is Associate Professor of Art History at Radford University.

Michelle Moseley-Christian is Associate Professor of Art History at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 

1 Introduction .- "Aspectu Desiderabilis": A Thirteenth Century Reliquary of David with the Face of Medusa.- Picturing Maternal Anxiety in the Miracle of the Jew of Bourges.- Gender and Poverty in Late Medieval Art.- Forms of Gendered Testimony in Dieric Bouts's Justice of Otto III.- "In Love and Faithfulness Toward One Another Like Brothers." Dürer's Feast of the Rose Garland and the Scuola dei Tedeschi as Strategies for Mediating Masculine Identity.- "The monster, death, becomes pregnant": Female Transi Tombs from Renaissance France.- Embodying Gluttony as Women's Wildness: Rembrandt's Naked Woman Seated on a Mound.

This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities deployed to construct gender identity. The text analyzes a vast array of medieval artworks, including Dieric Bouts's Justice of Otto III, Albrecht Dürer's Feast of the Rose Garland, Rembrandt van Rijn's Naked Woman Seated on a Mound, and Renaissance-era transi tombs of French women to illuminate medieval and early modern ideas about gender identity, poverty, religion, honor, virtue, sexuality, and motherhood, among others.