The Winter 2025-26 issue of the Open Arts Journal (iss.12), 'Picturing bodies in medieval and early modern Europe', is edited by Andrew Murray and Margit Thøfner and explores how images and visual culture shaped, challenged and constituted embodiment across medieval and early modern Europe.

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Table of Contents

0. Picturing bodies in medieval and early modern Europe: ‘What, then, is everyone writing about?’
Andrew Murray and Margit Thøfner
https://openartsjournal.org/issue-12/article-0/
10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2025w00

1. Raptorness: the ‘bodies’ of humans becoming-with birds of prey in the art and archaeology of early medieval England
Robert Wallis
https://openartsjournal.org/issue-12/article-1/
10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2025w01

2. Unbounded: The multiplicity of bodies and beings in Viking worlds
Brad Marshall, Emma L. Thompson, Alexander Wilson and Marianne Hem Eriksen
https://openartsjournal.org/issue-12/article-2/
10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2025w02

3. Veiling: Mourning between body and image
Andrew Murray
https://openartsjournal.org/issue-12/article-3/
10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2025w03

4. Conjoined: Dürer and Leonardo
M.A. Katritzky
https://openartsjournal.org/issue-12/article-4/
10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2025w04

5. Fat? The contested femininity of Marguerite de Valois in Rubens’s Medici Cycle
Scarlett Butler
https://openartsjournal.org/issue-12/article-5/
10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2025w05

6. Orifices: Surgery and sodomy in early modern Rome
Silvia de Renzi
https://openartsjournal.org/issue-12/article-6/
10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2025w06

7. Organ: fish and other bodies in an early modern Lutheran convent church
Margit Thøfner
https://openartsjournal.org/issue-12/article-7/
10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2025w07