Elena N BoeckElena N. Boeck is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at DePaul University, Chicago. Her research interests broadly encompass cross-cultural exchange, contestation of established cultural narratives and the fuction of appropriation in medieval court culture. Her previous publications have explored topics ranging from Byzantine art to Russian engravings in the eighteenth century to the nineteenth-century representation of Byzantium on the Parisian stage. Read More Read Less