PIMSPontifical Institute
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Mediaeval Studies

Dr. Shannon Tiku Wearing (LMS candidate) earned her PhD in 2015 at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, with a dissertation entitled “Power and Style: The Liber Feudorum Maior and the Court of Alfonso II, King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona (r. 1162–1196).” She is the author of “Holy Donors, Mighty Queens: Imaging Women in the Spanish Cathedral Cartularies of the Long Twelfth Century (Journal of Medieval History, 2016), co-editor of Illuminating Metalwork: Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts (De Gruyter, 2021), and is presently preparing a book, Image, Stone, and Song: Shaping Royal Identity in Medieval Barcelona (1150–1213). As a PIMS Visiting Fellow she will be conducting a research project on decorated charters in twelfth-century Iberia.