That “Temple,” represented as the Muslim shrine, is often surmounted by a crescent. Professor Berger teaches two medieval Art History courses. “Mysteries and Visions” begins with the art of the waning ...

Gothic rent books, Jewish ritual images, and Islamicate stucco ornament. We encourage article submissions that offer interdisciplinary, theoretical, or critical perspectives. Works of both established ...

The Gothic aesthetic gained literary prominence in the 18th century with the emergence of Gothic fiction. Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) is credited as the genre’s foundation ...