Finbarr Barry Flood is director of Silsila: Center for Material Histories and the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities at New York University. His books include Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval "Hindu-Muslim" Encounter (Princeton). Beate Fricke is professor of medieval art at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Her books include Fallen Idols, Risen Saints: Sainte Foy of Conques and the Revival of Monumental Sculpture in Medieval Art.