What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil? It is an enduring question — and one Dr. Denva Gallant rarely hears asked of the medieval world.
In her latest essay, Dr. Gallant explores how a rare manuscript illustration casts Blackness not as a mirror of sin, but the ground from which love itself might take shape.
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1 - Angel in the “Aurora consurgens” illuminated manuscript held at Zentralbibliothek Zürich in Switzerland (image public domain CC0 via Wikimedia Commons)
4 - Gerard David, “The Adoration of the Magi” (c. 1520), oil on wood (image public domain CC0 via the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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